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Elijah Wald shows us how the world used to sound in ‘Jelly Roll Blues,’ a rollicking history of forbidden early jazz
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 ...
Sounds of NOLA: 'New Orleans Songbook' brings the music of the Crescent City to Popejoy Hall
The distinct sounds of New Orleans will fill Popejoy Hall on Saturday, Feb. 8. "New Orleans Songbook: A Jazz at Lincoln ...
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This vacant Storyville corner store was once the stage for a New Orleans musical pioneer
During the Storyville era, Jackson became a popular musician both for his hot piano arrangements and his elegant signing, which pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton, an acolyte of Jackson’s ...
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"Jelly Roll Morton Making Concert" at the Patricia Hotel
I was going to hear Blues and Jazz at the Patricia Hotel, 403 E. Hastings St. in Vancouver. The event was Jelly Roll Morton Making Vancouver Concert, hosted by Stephen Quinn of CBC Radio One's "On the ...