The Bamboo Bar at the famous Oriental Hotel was set up in 1953 during a period when the hotel had several owners, including ...

The following is an opinion column written by an Echo Press editorial staff member. It does not necessarily reflect the views ...

One I'm keen to hear is Rumboogie from 1940 (the Spanish tinge as Jelly Roll Morton called the inclusion of Latin rhythms into rhythm and blues). While Rocco was known as a gifted technical ...

Obviously, a hat-tip to Freud's contemporary. Pleasure's vocalese, incorporating a well-known Jelly Roll Morton solo and R-rated definition of 'jelly roll,' cooks. That's followed by Pleasure's ...

While San Diego is skipping official events, Tijuana embraces UNESCO's International Jazz Day with concerts and deep musical roots that resonate on both sides of the border.

I mean hot as entertainment, of course, but also, even hotter, as history. The score is built around Jelly Roll Morton’s own music — with lyrics by Susan Birkenhead and some additional music ...

Harlem, the place to be. So hip, Roy Haynes once told me, cats said they would rather go to Harlem than to heaven.

Summers were spent listening to Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton, and making up simple songs during roadtrips with his family. He dropped out of high school to design fanzines, play music ...

Responding to The New York Times, Quint Davis, producer of Jazz Fest, said of Toussaint: "In the pantheon of New Orleans music people, from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats — that's ...

What happens when you cross Rick Astley with ragtime, or Justin Bieber with Jelly Roll Morton? Welcome to Postmodern Jukebox ...