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  1. Hace 15 horas · The rarely revived Jelly’s Last Jam, a musical biography of jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton, arrives at the Pasadena Playhouse as part of its classic musical series in a production that ...

  2. Hace 1 día · On stage now with a 10-piece orchestra is “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the musical about one of jazz’s founding fathers, Jelly Roll Morton. With a book by George C. Wolfe and lyrics by Susan ...

  3. 30 de may. de 2024 · Jelly Roll Morton claimed he invented jazz. Historians have disputed that claim, but they do not dismiss the enormous contribution he made to the genre. His legacy gets a dramatic argument in...

  4. 25 de may. de 2024 · 'Jelly's Last Jam' brings the rarely staged spectacle of Jelly Roll Morton's life to Pasadena Playhouse, art critic Christopher Knight puts you on game for what to see at the Getty.

  5. Hace 15 horas · One of the conceits of the musical is that not only Morton’s personal suffering but the history of his people’s suffering — a history that he kept aloof from — is encoded in the music. “Jelly’s Last Jam” begins at the end, with Morton’s body lying on a cor. oner’s slab, and works backwards, offering a life in review, a moral ...

  6. Hace 2 días · Featuring extraordinary tap dancing and a poignant commentary on identity, belonging, and internalized oppression, the early 20th century story of Jelly Roll Morton is told with sensational style by an all-Black cast who recount how the self-professed “inventor of jazz” Morton, a Louisiana-born Creole, relives his unsettled upbringing and the events comprising his unresolved life.

  7. Hace 4 días · Cress Williams, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and John Clarence Stewart lead the Jelly Roll Morton biomusical. Despite its success on the Main Stem, the musical has been seldom produced since its premiere ...