We’ve all got those friends in our lives whom we text with but never see in person. Jelly Roll and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson ...

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 ...

‘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 has won the Best Off Broadway Musical award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Get Jelly Roll Morton Email Alerts Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

After ten years of admiration and connection, Jelly Roll and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson finally met in person. Here's what led ...

Nicholas Christopher, left, as Jelly Roll Morton and Billy Porter as Chimney Man in the Encores! production of “Jelly’s Last Jam” at City Center.

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 ...

After nearly a decade of friendship built on the power of music, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jelly Roll finally got to meet ...

A new musical set in New Orleans, conceived and written by Tony Award winner Jack Viertel with music supervision, ...

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 ...

Object Details Author Morton, Jelly Roll -1941 Notes All selections composed by Jelly Roll Morton. Compact disc. Program notes by Kitty Fassett (23 p. : port.) inserted in container.

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 ...