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`Jelly Roll!' To Jazz Up City: Off Broadway Sensation Set As Tribute To Black History Month In Limited Engagement
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`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 in The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's "Live on Stage" performance services for families and teens, "Jelly Roll!" is the award-winning two-man show scheduled for the Byham Theater (formerly th...
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`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.
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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
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The Inventor of Jazz Revisited
The Texas Observer
; Untangling the Legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Da Capo Press 288 pages, $26. Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole, and "Inventor of Jazz" University of California Press 368 pages,
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HumanitiesFest highlights Jelly Roll Morton's art
Chicago Defender
; HumanitiesFest highlights Jelly Roll Morton's art During my life and career, one has had the pleasure of hearing the art of many great jazz pianists, including Earl "Fatha" Hines, Eubie Blake, Little Brother Montgomery, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Baby Dodds and it will be a highlight of the
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Jazzman Jelly Roll Morton denied what his music couldn't.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; The first thing you have to know is that jazz's first great man, Jelly Roll Morton, was of mixed heritage. The second thing you have to know is that Jelly hated the first thing. ``My ancestors came directly from the shores of France he was fond of saying, leaving unmentioned the Africa in him.
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