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.

Around 1907, innovative piano stylist and composer Jelly Roll Morton became one ... as the central focus of jazz performance – a paradigm shift that defined the music’s development for decades.

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

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

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

Mike usually plays a supporting role with visiting top musicians but ... of some of the greats of jazz. Mike writes: “This show features music from Jelly Roll Morton through to Chick Corea ...

Morton proved that jazz could retain its joyous, freewheeling feel even when scored on music paper. He also was jazz's first published composer. His Jelly Roll Blues was published in 1915. As a ...

Jazz music was, then, the soundtrack to a revolution ... “King Porter Stomp,” which, according to its composer, Jelly Roll Morton – another totemic figure in early jazz – had been ...

Born Ferdinand LaMothe in New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered pianist and composer with ... brought a classical music-influenced sensibility to piano jazz, beginning in the ...

But at age 14, after seeing the film, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, where Kirk Douglas portrays American Jazz ... music he heard on the 78 RPM gramophone records of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton ...