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Jelly Roll Morton walked into the Melrose brothers’ South Side music store in 1923. He got famous, and Lester Merose got rich.

Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers.

Using recordings of Jelly Roll Morton, Wald uncovers a lost continent of working-class culture long suppressed by musicologists.

Despite a Mostly Invented Plot and a Less Than Accurate Title, ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Would Have Delighted Jelly Roll Morton The great pianist, composer, and bandleader clearly thought of himself as the ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, a major New Orleans jazz pioneer, sat down for a series of extensive interviews and performances with a young folklorist named Alan Lomax. Sound recordings of these ...

For Wald, Jelly Roll Morton represents the hidden history of early American music and culture, a history that was well documented in its time — Lomax was one of many folklorist-archivists of his ...

‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Off Broadway Review: How Jazz Was Born, or Was it? Jelly Roll Morton gets the anti-hagiography treatment Encores!'s Off Broadway revival production of "Jelly's Last Jam ...

Directed by Kent Gash, a new revival of 'Jelly's Last Jam' at Pasadena Playhouse makes the almost classic musical worth another look.

A new book traces the history of "dirty" blues and jazz songs, with Jelly Roll Morton in the starting block.

For Wald, Jelly Roll Morton represents the hidden history of early American music and culture, a history that was well documented in its time — Lomax was one of many folklorist-archivists of his ...