`Jelly's Last Jam' jazzes up Broadway From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 9, 1992| Author: Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff | Copyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

JELLY'S LAST JAM

Musical in two acts. Book and direction by George C.

Wolfe. Music by Jelly Roll Morton. Adaptation and

additional music, Luther Henderson. Lyrics, Susan

Birkenhead. Set, Robin Wagner. Costumes, Toni-Leslie

James. Lighting, Jules Fisher. Choreography, Hope Clarke.

Tap, Gregory Hines, Ted L. Levy.

At: The Virginia Theater, New York.

NEW YORK -- There are moments in "Jelly's Last Jam" when you think ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	`Last Jam' takes too long to jell The Boston Globe ; JELLY'S LAST JAM Musical in two acts. Written and directed by George C. Wolfe. Music, Jelly Roll Morton. Lyrics, Susan Birkenhead. Adaptations/additional music, Luther Henderson. Scenery, Robin Wagner. Lighting, Jules Fisher. Costumes, Toni-Leslie James. Tap choreography, Maurice Hines.
	`Jelly's Last Jam' jazzes up Broadway The Boston Globe ; JELLY'S LAST JAM Musical in two acts. Book and direction by George C. Wolfe. Music by Jelly Roll Morton. Adaptation and additional music, Luther Henderson. Lyrics, Susan Birkenhead. Set, Robin Wagner. Costumes, Toni-Leslie James. Lighting, Jules Fisher. Choreography, Hope Clarke. Tap, Gregory
	Pimp, pool shark, conman - and the father of jazz. Roy Barthlomew looks at the life of Jelly Roll Morton The Independent - London ; The New York Times hailed it as a show that "leaves you wanting more, more, more". British audiences will be able to judge for themselves when Jelly Roll! - a tribute to the jazz great Jelly Roll Morton - slides into Stratford East next week. "Fun, sexy and fast" is how Philip Hedley, the Theatre
	`Jelly Roll!' To Jazz Up City: Off Broadway Sensation Set As Tribute To Black History Month In Limited Engagement New Pittsburgh Courier ; `Jelly Roll!' To Jazz Up City: Off Broadway Sensation Set As Tribute To. Black History Month In Limited Engagement The father of American jazz comes to life in the Off Broadway hit "Jelly Roll! The Music and the Man," a toe-tapping tribute to the legendary Jelly Roll Morton. The second presentation
	What's Happening: AFRO talks with...Maurice Hines Washington Afro-American ; Ida Peters Washington Afro-American 03-11-1995 What's Happening: AFRO talks withMaurice Hines. When the AFRO talked with Maurice Hines last week, we didn't discuss his brother Gregory nor did we talk about Jelly Roll Morton's color complex and his denial of his African roots which is the heart of
	A FLAMBOYANT COMPOSER AND HIS CREOLE ROOTS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ; JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-19-1996 A FLAMBOYANT COMPOSER AND HIS CREOLE ROOTS By JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer Date: 01-19-1996, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Biographical: VERNEL
	Love in Vain The Washington Post ; JELLY ROLL (A Blues) By Kevin Young Knopf. 190 pp. $23 In his impressive third collection, Kevin Young uses the blues as a template, fusing popular music and black vernacular and thereby placing himself squarely in the African-American poetic tradition pioneered by such writers as Langston Hughes.
	`Jelly's Last Jam'...classy musical at Warner's Washington Afro-American ; Ida Peters Washington Afro-American 03-18-1995 `Jelly's Last Jamclassy musical at Warner's. The loves, lies, triumphs and deceptions of the legendary jazz pioneer,' Jelly Roll Morton, have been sugarcoated into a tap dancing musical by George C. Wolfe, and set to Morton's own music by Luther
	Broadway musical play is Jamtastic! Philadelphia Tribune, The ; Rita Charleston Philadelphia Tribune, The 01-06-1995 Broadway musical play is Jamtastic!. By Rita Charleston Special to the Tribune In the beginning there was the music, created by Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz who based his music on the rhythms and sounds he learned in
	'Jelly Roll' honors jazz man's sweet sound Philadelphia Tribune, The ; David Hannah Philadelphia Tribune, The 05-12-1995 `Jelly Roll' honors jazz man's sweet sound. Often a person's most important accomplishments go unnoticed until after their death. Legendary jazz man Jelly Roll Morton's props for pioneering jazz music came the same way. That late acknowledgement is

See all results.