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Jelly Roll Morton in 1925 at an RCA Victor session in Chicago. “I never got paid a penny of salary from the big companies as a talent scout,” Melrose told a Library of Congress curator ...

Morton’s sobriquet Jelly Roll itself was a term for female genitalia, and the songs Lomax coaxed out of the often-reluctant pianist conjure a world that was rapidly receding, even in 1938. Elijah Wald ...

Jelly Roll Morton would have loved “Jelly’s Last Jam,” even though it hardly portrays him as an admirable character — heroic, certainly, but not sympathetic. Morton clearly thought of himself as the ...

Music journalist Elijah Wald uses those Morton sessions as both the jumping point and the framework for deep and detailed book with a bit of musical detection of his own: Jelly Roll Blues ...

Jelly Roll Morton was an American character so outrageous, that only he could have invented himself. Born Ferdinand Lamothe, sometimes spelled LaMothe, Lamenthe, LaMenthe, Lamotte, and Lemott, he ...

Jelly Roll Morton gets the anti-hagiography treatment. Encores!'s Off Broadway revival production of "Jelly's Last Jam" at New York City Center. Robert Hofler. February 22, 2024 @ 10:47 AM.

Jelly Roll Morton Gift guide Reviewed by Harvey Pekar, Fri., Dec. 9, 2005. Tweet. print. write a letter. Jelly Roll Morton . The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax ...

Jelly Roll Morton. Volume 1, The pianist and composer [sound recording] Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Morton, Jelly Roll -1941 Notes All selections composed by Jelly Roll ...