In 1961, Irma Thomas had visited the home of Toussaint’s parents, Clarence and Naomi. There, Toussaint had frequently ...

Michael Hurley, Patrick Bunch. Michael Hurley, the outsider folk artist and singer-songwriter who came up in the Greenwich ...

The performance will consist of music from artists like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ellis Marsalis and James Black to celebrate the city of New Orleans. The "New Orleans Songbook" will be ...

King Pleasure Sings the Freudian Slips Songbook album review by Nicholas F. Mondello, published on April 1, 2025. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Mike writes: “This show features music from Jelly Roll Morton through to Chick Corea with tributes to many well known players (including J. P Johnson, Fats Waller, Bill Evans, Thelonius Monk ...

Masekela had been greatly moved by the music he heard on the 78 RPM gramophone records of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Sy Oliver ...

New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton is widely considered to be jazz's first arranger. Though jazz was considered exclusively an improvised form early on, Morton proved that jazz could retain its ...

Born Ferdinand LaMothe in New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered pianist ... New Jersey-born Bill Evans brought a classical music-influenced sensibility to piano jazz, beginning ...

Jazz music was, then, the soundtrack to a revolution ... according to its composer, Jelly Roll Morton – another totemic figure in early jazz – had been written twenty years earlier.

Post Malone and Jelly Roll are ending their 2025 “Big Ass Stadium Tour” with one final blowout at Citi Field in New York on ...