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Hace 1 día · Jelly’s Last Jam gave the world the gift of Gregory Hines and Savion Glover moving to Jelly Roll Morton’s music. My quibbles aside, I would not have missed it. I cannot close without saying how much I love the title of this show. Poetry in clear-cut English.
Hace 4 días · Jelly Roll isn't shy about his checkered past, but also shares with fans what's going on in his personal life currently. It's an unlikely success story, but it's the kind country music loves to...
Hace 4 días · June 4, 2024. It’s 1941 and jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton has died and is lying on a gurney at the Los Angeles County Coroner. He wakes up and is greeted by the mysterious “Chimney Man” who is about to walk him through his own personal “This is Your Life” and Morton begins to realize this was not the outcome he imagined for himself.
Hace 16 horas · Moving forward, we have the author’s interesting comments on many relevant recordings, plenty of interesting information about Jelly Roll Morton, some obligatory concentration on Louis Armstrong and, eventually, the story of the discovery of Bunk Johnson and the subsequent revival of interest in New Orleans jazz.
Hace 2 días · With the opening of the musical Jelly’s Last Jam at the Pasadena Playhouse, this song and dance drenched consideration of the audacious, self-proclaimed inventor of jazz comes home, so to speak.The jazz-infused recounting of the turbulent life and times of jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton premiered in 1991 at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum under Gordon Davidson.
Hace 4 días · Even Jelly Roll Morton, who called himself the inventor of jazz, called Bolden “the most powerful trumpet in the world” and paid homage to him by recording the “Buddy Bolden Blues,” which most likely stemmed from a composition by Cornish.
Hace 2 días · 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 ...
