Legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Ma Rainey and W.C. Handy all reported hearing the music for the first time around 1902. The word “blues” first appeared on sheet music in 1908, with the ...

The Center for the Study of Public Domain specifies that musical compositions refer to "the music and lyrics that ... Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," Jelly Roll Morton's "Shreveport Stomp ...

Responding to The New York Times, Quint Davis, producer of Jazz Fest, said of Toussaint: "In the pantheon of New Orleans music people, from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats — that's ...

It was 20 years ago that I discovered her seminal 2002 album, “Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan,” which had the effect of transforming me from someone who merely appreciated the music ...

The ceremonial music of these groups contributed significantly ... Around 1907, innovative piano stylist and composer Jelly Roll Morton became one of the first New Orleans musicians to take ...

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 ...

In their hands, Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes is turned into a New Orleans funeral dirge, Justin Bieber’s Love Yourself is sung in the style of Jelly Roll Morton, while Dua Lipa’s ...

We look back to a time when jazz was the dominant form of popular music and could be heard ... according to its composer, Jelly Roll Morton – another totemic figure in early jazz – had been ...

Even though jazz has been around for well over a century, it’s still viewed by some people as the coolest, hippest music there ... LaMothe in New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered ...

The Tennessee Board of Parole recommended a pardon for country music star Jelly Roll, a Nashville native who has spoken ...