Theater review: Nadler's 'Russian on the Side' Oct 24, 2008
Others - a dynamic Jelly Roll Morton mashup from "Jelly's Last Jam" - are superb. It's still a very funny and often musically enchanting show, and the addition of a passionate Rachmaninoff Prelude is a nice touch. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Second line fetes famed photog Michael P. Smith Oct 13, 2008
Autos HomeCenter Zero In On Your Next Home Free Classifieds. 08:24 AM CDT on Sunday, October 12, 2008. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Chicago Jazz Radio Stations Sep 3, 2008
Despite being the place where the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker spent time and recorded classic records and played memorable concerts, these days the state of jazz in Chicago is rather grim. The Early Days of Radio. (Suite101.com)
Buck Evans: ragtime wonder of the north Aug 15, 2008
But Evans was always drawn to the old music, basically Dixieland and ragtime, by players such as Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson and Eubie Blake. After leaving home and drifting around some, Evans ended up in New Orleans where he honed his skills as a Dixieland musician. (Juneau Empire)
FBI probing CCDC dealings Aug 13, 2008
Jazz greats Charlie Parker and Jelly Roll Morton were among the guests. CCDC planned to build a parking garage there until Huff-Willis was able to have the site designated historic in 2001. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Melody Maker Jul 23, 2008
Trumpeter Ferbos, 97, performs in New Orleans. Article:Trumpeter Ferbos, 97, performs in New Orleans:/c/a/2008/07/21/DD0411SNB1. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New Orleans trumpeter still playing gigs at 97 Jul 19, 2008
$7 online stock trades. Born in 1911, Lionel Ferbos still plays regularly in the French Quarter. (MSNBC -- Music)
Delta Spirit is moved by varied influences Jun 22, 2008
"I love Alan Lomax's stuff. You progressively hear his subjects getting drunk and then telling him the real deal, not just the nice churchy stuff. Jelly Roll Morton is the best example. I got the complete eight-disc set after we signed," says Vasquez, sounding like he just hit the jackpot in Vegas. Folk-music historians and jazz pioneers aren't the usual reference points for indie-rock upstarts, but Vasquez isn't talking about musical influences. (Boston Globe)
My 20-year love affair with skiffle Jun 1, 2008
Having been raised on my father's exhaustive Jelly Roll Morton record collection (he even started writing a biography), I knew just how brilliantly bawdy and disreputable Storyville jazz could be, and from an early age I wanted to play music like that. The problem was that, unlike Morton, I was a cack-handed musician who lived by Eric Morecambe's maxim that 'I'm playing all the right notes. (Guardian Unlimited)
Juneau Jazz & Classics gets legendary May 23, 2008
He said the trio performs a little bit of ragtime in the style of Scott Joplin, but prefers the traditional New Orleans jazz sound pioneered by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton. "For me music doesn't really get obsolete, it's just how you present it," Thompson said. (Juneau Empire)
Wonderful timeFans brave the elements at the New Orleans Jazz Festival May 7, 2008
Many of the numbers featured tributes to the jazz greats who lived or played in the city - Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, George Lewis or Sidney Bechet. Charles Neville and his brothers are celebrating 30 years in the industry. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Music in the park for Artsfest Apr 5, 2008
When Hotlanta plays on Thursday evening, there will be songs from Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, plus many favorites like "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "When the Saints Go Marchin' In.". Hotlanta's full instrumentation is the traditional sextet: Greg McLean on comet, Ray Trant on drums, Neal McElroy on trombone, Bill Rutan on banjo/vocals, Don Erdman on clarinet and Hal Johnson on tuba. (Bainbridge Post Searchlight, GA)
Bouncing back Mar 15, 2008
Leach has been playing with the Black Swan Classic Jazz Band in recent years, ripping through the repertoire of such artists as Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller, along with other classic Dixie material. He s also played with Gladstone, Maharimba and The Vanilla Syncopators, with Feinberg. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Surfing his own musical wave Mar 1, 2008
CAMBRIDGE - Tracing the lineage of Nik B rtsch's jazz back to Satchmo and Jelly Roll Morton would be an exercise in futility. The music that B rtsch, a young Swiss pianist, brought to the Regattabar Thursday night on his first US tour is a great-great-grandnephew to the red-hot swing born in New Orleans, and yet it's bona fide jazz all the same. (Boston Globe)
Vernon Alley Feb 29, 2008
When he was a young man, his parents took him to see Jelly Roll Morton play at Maple Hall on Polk Street, making Alley someone whose life encompassed the entire history of jazz. He began his career before the war, working the thriving nightlife scene in the Fillmore district with bandleaders Wes Peoples and Saunders King. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Atlanta Jazz band is living a dream Jan 31, 2008
"One of my favorites is 'Whinin' Boy Blues' by Jelly Roll Morton. A whinin' boy was someone who ran errands in New Orleans at the turn of the century. When Jelly Roll grew up, one of the first songs he wrote was about being a whinin' boy. We like to give the audience a handle or some clues about where certain songs come from - and some songs have some interesting stories behind them.". Erdman has been a musician most of his life and was a music teacher and band director before turning full-time... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Campus Calendar Jan 23, 2008
TONIGHTLetting the Jelly rollBy all accounts Jelly Roll Morton was a son of a biscuit, but while his pimping and gambling were bad news for his ladies, Morton channeled his wild child energy into his own spicy flavor of New Orleans hot jazz. Unfortunately, Morton's arrogance earned him a cold shoulder as the jazz world moved on, and Morton died penniless fully believing his lot was the work of a voodoo curse. (Boston Globe)
Picks of the week Jan 18, 2008
Wednesday: Adventurous keyboardist Anthony Coleman interprets the music of Jelly Roll Morton at NEC'S Brown Hall. Pianist Billy Childs is at Scullers. (Boston Globe)
Country music talent scout Ken Nelson, 96 Jan 10, 2008
Nelson got a job in a music store, delivering sheet music to jazz titans including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. In his early 20s, Nelson worked as an announcer reading stock reports on a Chicago radio station. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Standing out Jan 4, 2008
Crescent City Kings: The good times will roll as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will feature the music of native sons Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and Sidney Bechet. Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. in the Rose Theater. (Bayside Times, NY)
Donation sweetens FAU jazz program Dec 25, 2007
Ivey's favorite musician is Jelly Roll Morton, a native of New Orleans who bragged he was the "originator of jazz." ... "Jelly Roll Morton was a multi-threat," Ivey said. (The Palm Beach Post)
New Orleans' musical traditions changing Nov 27, 2007
Besides being one of the oldest African-American communities in the USA, Treme bred some of the jazz world's most influential figures, including Jelly Roll Morton and Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, Moore says. "It's sacred ground," Moore says. (USA Today -- News)
Harlem harmonies Nov 3, 2007
Listing Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and Cab Calloway among the honored composers, director Steve Simpkins compared the influence of Harlem on the music of the 1920s and 30s to the influence of Vienna in the 18th century. Many of these composers led the way, Simpkins said. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Acclaimed Riverwalk Jazz Series Joins Lineup at Gavin Report's ''Jazz Station of the Year,'' WBGO-88.3 FM Sep 21, 2007
Broadway's Vernel Bagneris lends his singing and comedic talents and portrays jazz greats like Jelly Roll Morton. Past luminaries who have graced the broadcasts include Sweets Edison, Doc Cheatham and Benny Carter. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
White in America: a long, strange ride Sep 10, 2007
" It came in the evening news, with the image of Patrice Lumumba of Congo, earnest and articulate in his dark suit and glasses. He wasn't a National Geographic African, but an urbane modern politician. Adults around me clearly viewed him with hostility, as they did Malcolm X. My father, like Kerouac, was a jazz fanatic, and he listened to it all: Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Waller, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington. And blues and gospel.... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Carey wins 3 Grammys in pretelecast ceremony Sep 10, 2007
In a salute to a New Orleans jazz giant, the Jelly Roll Morton boxed set "The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax" received two statuettes, for best historical album and best album notes (by jazz historian John Szwed). After a rare year out of the running in 2005, polka perennial Jimmy Sturr won his 15th Grammy for "Shake, Rattle and Polka!". (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
Baritone lands role in Riverdance production Aug 24, 2007
He'd also landed a major role in the touring production of "Jelly Roll," a music and dance production on the life of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton. Hall learned about the Riverdance opening from his agent, at a time when he was also auditioning in New York City for a leading part in Oprah Winfrey's production of 'The Color Purple. (Laurel Leader, MD)
Max Roach, Pioneer of Modern Jazz, 1924-2007 Aug 19, 2007
" Though not the first bop drummer (Kenny Clarke earns that distinction), Roach was widely acknowledged as the most influential and at times the most controversial. His musical imagination, like his flying hands, never stood still from his earliest days in gospel bands to experiments with the drum ensemble M Boom to his late career interests in hip hop and rap.Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born in Newland, NC, and moved with his family to the Bedfrd-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn at age four.... (Jazz Police)
Jazz Master Max Roach Dies at 83 Aug 17, 2007
Using player piano rolls of Jelly Roll Morton and Albert Ammons, Roach played along by putting his fingers on the keys and pedals as they rose and fell. But he was looking for another instrument to play when he began singing with the children's choir at the Concord Baptist Church. (Newsmax)
Piano Pops provides particular package of pleasure Jul 20, 2007
Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin and Art Tatum, along with familiar classics like Beethoven s "Fur Elise," will be on the bill once again as the Westerly virtuoso sits down at the keyboard for entertainments recalling the "golden age of the piano," as he likes to call it ... Jelly Roll Morton talked about the Spanish tinge in his music. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Memories Of A One-Off Jazz Legend Jul 7, 2007
At school Melly once seduced former Sunday Telegraph editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne on a sofa but said he found crackly 78s by Bessie Smith, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton far more satisfying. He later joined the navy as the war ended and travelled the world experimenting with both jazz and sex in a series of hilarious escapades which he later recounted in his book Rum, Bum And Concertina. (Sky News)
'Last Chance' group gets a new chance to swing Jul 6, 2007
It was born in New Orleans and was nurtured in speakeasies and dance halls of the Prohibition era by such luminaries as Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. In addition to focusing on Dixieland music, the July 8 program will offer jazz covers of pop and show tunes such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "Mame," said Jim Riley, of Catonsville, the band's banjo player. (Columbia Flier, MD)
Levee Work Might Imperil New Orleans' French Quarter Jul 3, 2007
The possibility of a heightened risk came as a surprise to many residents of the French Quarter and districts such as New Marigny, where jazz great Jelly Roll Morton once lived. "Is that what they're saying? Oh, boy, that's not good," said Nathan Chapman, president of Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates Inc., an advocacy group that defends the quality of life in the French Quarter. (Newsmax)
Repairs to levee system could put French Quarter in greater peril than before Katrina Jul 2, 2007
The possibility of a heightened risk came as a surprise to many residents of the French Quarter and districts such as New Marigny, where jazz great Jelly Roll Morton once lived. s that what they're saying. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Epitaph by Charles Mingus May 18, 2007
Yet "Epitaph" turns out to be a perfect title since it defines Mingus as an original synthesis of the past, present and future of music -- reaching out to the radical avant-garde with wandering dissonances worthy of Charles Ives; looking back to gospel, Jelly Roll Morton, Vernon Duke, bebop, Mingus's own greatest hits ("Better Get It In Your Soul"), and above all, Ellington. The screaming sonorities in the brass recall Stan Kenton and hardly anyone else in jazz, and Mingus took Ellington's use... (Variety)
Mingus: Epitaph Apr 27, 2007
As such, he interpolated elements from Jelly Roll Morton (a radically retooled but still swinging "Wolverine Blues") to Thelonious Monk ("Osmotin'"), but placed them in a context far closer to modern classical than anything else. Even broken up by an intermission, "Epitaph" made for arduous listening -- hardly surprising given the uncompromising stance Mingus took over the years. (Variety)
Buddy Bolden Apr 24, 2007
Photographs by Peter Sorel, SMPSP The set of "Bolden," starring Anthony Mackie, left, and directed by Dan Pritzker, right. Published: April 23, 2007. (International Herald Tribune)
Jazzing up the arts Apr 19, 2007
NORTH BEND Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Charles Mingus probably never expected to jam at North Bend High School. But these jazz greats, along with seven other popular jazzmen, will be lining the walls of the school's band room this spring through a mural project led by the school's sole art teacher. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Local musicians get overdue honors, but awards show deserves no prizes Apr 18, 2007
The Bay Area's African American music scene may not span "many different centuries," as Wiggins suggested, but it can be traced at least to the second decade of the 20th century, when Jelly Roll Morton operated a nightclub in North Beach and Kid Ory held forth at the Creole Cafe in West Oakland. And Bay Area black musicians have been churning out national hits since 1948, the year locally produced records by blues musicians Ivory Joe Hunter and Lowell Fulson began showing up on Billboard... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dick Allen, at 80; was jazz historian Apr 15, 2007
He studied trombone under Manuel "Professor" Manetta, the teacher of Jelly Roll Morton, Red Allen, and many other New Orleans musicians. Mr. Allen was born on Jan. 29, 1927, near Milledgeville, Ga. (Boston Globe)
New Orleans jazz historian Dick Allen dies Apr 15, 2007
He studied trombone under "Professor" Manuel Manetta, the teacher of Jelly Roll Morton, Red Allen and many other New Orleans musicians. His knowledge of New Orleans jazz was encyclopedic, and William M. Weinberg in his "Studies in Jazz Discography" praised Allen as someone who "has probably done more than any other individual on the university level to develop jazz archives.". (WWLTV.com, LA)
Turning up the heat at jazz museum Mar 14, 2007
Originally based in the same complex as the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet, the LCJO was conceived as a jazz repertory company, dedicated to presenting the great works of the jazz canon -- classics by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Jelly Roll Morton -- as well as pieces commissioned from contemporary jazz composers. It would, in short, work less like a big band than a symphony orchestra. (Globe and Mail)
Sarasota Jazz Festival Mar 11, 2007
"Jazz in the Park": Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail. Traditional jazz, Dixieland jazz, soul-infused jazz and big-band jazz will all be part of this afternoon event. (Herald-Tribune)
Jazz band comes to Rapid City Mar 9, 2007
The seven member group plays jazz, ragtime and Dixieland music made famous by such well-known names as Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. We play early jazz from New Orleans, Barr said. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Quick Guide and Transcript Feb 27, 2007
KAREEN WYNTER, CNN REPORTER: With artists like Jelly Roll Morton on piano, Louis Armstrong on trumpet and Duke Ellington writing the music, jazz came alive. Often called the 'cradle of jazz,' African music flourished in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century. (CNN -- Education)
Mardi Gras concert in Fairhaven this evening Feb 18, 2007
They play music by Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller and many others. Mr. Nossiter has performed both here and abroad with Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, Teddy Wilson, Jimmy Rushing, Dave McKenna and the Preservation Hall Band, among others. (The Standard-Times, MA)
St. Louis jazz band performing in Kirksville March 10 Feb 18, 2007
The band performs early arrangements reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. Tickets are available at the Kirksville Arts Association at 117 S. Franklin, Edna Campbell Book Store, or art association board members. (Kirksville Daily Express, MO)
New Orleans Journal Feb 8, 2007
And he had, in his house, one of the world s best jazz collections sheet music by Jelly Roll Morton, part of a clarinet played by Sidney Bechet. It went on and on. (New Yorker)
Mending to beat the band Jan 20, 2007
Now surrounded by warehouses and truck bays, the shop is a short walk from the spot where jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton is said to have once lived on Central Avenue. Inside, it seems a throwback to some pre-industrial craft guild workshop. (Los Angeles Times)
