Jelly Roll Morton began playing in the red-light district as a teenager. He took his stage name from its vulgar argot — his real name was Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe.

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“Here you have a person’s life work, and a portrait of the world he lived in.” Finally, Jelly Roll Morton may get his due. Originally Published: December 2, 1997 at 1:00 AM CST ...

A program that runs less than an hour can scarcely do justice to Jelly Roll Morton's complex and intriguing legacy. Yet at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage on Tuesday evening, pianist Dave ...

Many of the most enthralling threads that Wald follows in “Jelly Roll Blues” involve chasing down the origins of words, phrases, and songs that Morton recorded for posterity, including a good deal of ...

‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ City Center Through March 3 Jelly Roll Morton would have loved “Jelly’s Last Jam,” even though it hardly portrays him as an admirable character — heroic, certainly, but not ...

Jelly Roll Morton was buried without a headstone. Nine years later, the Southern California Hot Jazz Society held a fundraiser to finally put a marker over the jazzman’s casket.

Radio & Podcasts New Orleans Diaspora - Jelly Roll Morton & Sidney Bechet (1923 - 1928) by Russell Perry November 20, 2018 In this hour, we'll explore the music of two more giants of the New Orleans ...

Sometimes, the speeches between Morton and Chimney Man get a little long-winded, but there is always the music to beguile us. “Jelly’s Last Jam” is a weird hybrid.