Jelly Roll Morton News

Juan-Carlos Formell fronts his band at Snug Harbor on Oct. 9-10. Hear "Ciudad" from Juan-Carlos Formell >> Traditional jazz clarinetist Michael White knew next to nothing about Juan-Carlos Formell before ...

A book attempting an overview of a subject with nearly a century of rich history and with three-quarters of a million recordings is a daunting undertaking.

Sarah Punshon, the director of Don't You Leave Me Here at the West Yorkshire Playhouse explains the show's appeal to Dominic Cavendish What with first Hurricane Katrina and now the Credit Crunch, it's not as if ...

"If you're into titillation, check out Councilmember Howard Kihune's new coffee cup.

South Florida Community College is preparing for another Jazz Series season. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m., in the SFCC University Center Auditorium in Avon Park.

Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 Today is the 264th day of 2008 and the 92nd day of summer.

New Orleans North is heading off to China in November to jazz things up at the Nanjing Jazz Festival.

New Orleans always has been a melting pot -- and our music shows it. We've spawned everything from the "Spanish tinge" heard in Jelly Roll Morton recordings to the bouncing blend of rap, R&B and parade drumming ...

By Norman Provizer , Rocky Mountain News Thursday, August 21, 2008 If you're a jazz fan visiting Denver for the Democratic National Convention, consider yourself lucky.

Oscar Peterson used to call Chicago 'Piano City,' because so many colossal jazz keyboardists have enjoyed long tenures here.

Jazz definition: a type of popular music in the African/American tradition, which sprang up in and around New Orleans and is marked by frequent improvisations and rhythms For the last 21 years, Melbourne's PBS ...

From left: Kelly Winrich, Matt Vasquez, Sean Walker, Brandon Young, and Jon Jameson of the San Diego band Delta Spirit.

The finale of this season's "Live From Blue Lake" radio concert series is June 19th at 10 p.m. with Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings playing the arrangements and transcriptions by pianist James DaPogny of music from ...

Not only is it Refugee Week, but June 2008 is apparently the first Gypsy, Traveller and Roma History Month .

Jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythm have been commingling for a century. After all, as Jelly Roll Morton, the early jazz pioneer from New Orleans famously put it, you can't have jazz without what he called 'the ...

If evidence of eighteenth-century jazz is unearthed in, say, the 21st century, Wynton Marsalis is likely the man who will play it and talk it up.

Judith London, Tune in for... Roger Daltrey lead singer of the rock group The Who TUNE IN FOR... You'll Never Walk Alone Liverpudlian actress Sue Johnston explores how the Rodgers and Hammerstein showtune ...

Miles Davis came from East St. Louis, Ill. So what's with this "Miles From India" concert happening Saturday in San Francisco? For one thing, it proposes that there's something in Davis' music - its wide open ...

Duke Ellington would invoke the phrase "beyond category" when he thought a musician or group achieved an extraordinary level of originality and attainment.

Musings To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Written by David Cutler Wed, May 21 2008 09:53 JAZZED: The WRJB performed aboard the American Queen somewhere on the Mississippi last ...