The book has unsolvable problems, but then so do most musicals, until they are solved — or bulldozed. Even then, few give you a first act like this one, or a subject — the creation of American ...

Summers were spent listening to Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton, and making up simple songs during roadtrips with his family. He dropped out of high school to design fanzines, play music ...

Pleasure's vocalese, incorporating a well-known Jelly Roll Morton solo and R-rated definition of 'jelly ... On "If You Could Read My Mind," Pleasure, with respect for the music-hating Freud, recorded ...

The Bamboo Bar at the famous Oriental Hotel was set up in 1953 during a period when the hotel had several owners, including ...

Harlem, the place to be. So hip, Roy Haynes once told me, cats said they would rather go to Harlem than to heaven.

Benjamin Tausig, an associate professor of music at the State University of ... hear is Rumboogie from 1940 (the Spanish tinge as Jelly Roll Morton called the inclusion of Latin rhythms into ...

While San Diego is skipping official events, Tijuana embraces UNESCO's International Jazz Day with concerts and deep musical roots that resonate on both sides of the border.

What happens when you cross Rick Astley with ragtime, or Justin Bieber with Jelly Roll Morton? Welcome to Postmodern Jukebox ...