Jelly roll morton

Colin Fleming selects the 10 greatest recordings by New Orleans jazz pioneer (and teller of tall tales) Jelly Roll Morton.

Jelly Roll Morton

New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton is widely considered to be jazz's first arranger. Though jazz was considered an improvised form early on, Morton proved that jazz could retain its joyous, freewheeling feel even when scored on music paper. He...

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Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 concerts at the Library's Coolidge auditorium became a landmark jazz recording and the basis for his biography,

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Jelly Roll Morton, who claimed to have “invented” jazz, was the first great jazz composer.

Jelly Roll Morton.

Jelly Roll Morton