Barrelhouse music is the sort of piano music you ... greatest surviving barrel-houser—54-year-old Ferdinand (“Jelly Roll”) Morton. The album’s title is Jetty Roll Morton’s New Orleans ...

“Jelly Roll Blues” provides a major corrective ... for wider inquiry into the social history of American music traditions. Morton provides a through line for the book, but Wald is not so ...

This vivid, impressionistic portrait of legendary jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton features Tony ... Wolfe (Shuffle Along) and set to Morton’s iconic music, Jelly’s Last Jam tells a fable ...

In a recent interview, Jelly Roll revealed what he thinks is one of the best songs he's ever heard and how it killed one of his dreams.

That's sort of ironically appropriate given that the show ends with jazz originator Jelly Roll Morton laid out on a ... discovers eagerly investigating the music of brothels - and his beloved ...