While still a teenager, Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton earned a good living playing piano in the notorious Storyville District of New Orleans. When he began touring the country around 1904, he found it necessary to prepare written arrangements for bands that were unfamiliar with the new musical style called jazz. In traveling from place to place, I found other musicians had to be taught," Morton said later. "I began writing down this peculiar form of mathematics and harmonics that was strange to all the world.
Jazz Wynton Marsalis, "Swinging Into the 21st" (Sony/Legacy, 11 discs). Was there ever a jazz musician in the entire history of the music who had as much of the confidence of one record label as Wynton Marsalis had as the 20th century twinkled to a close and the 21st came roaring in? Marsalis, from 1999 to 2002, was not only released in massive disc quantity but with major ambitions intact - - everything from string quartets to ballet music to tributes to Stravinsky's "L'Historie du Soldat," to unused film music to small combo tributes to Thelonious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton. His final work for Columbia was "All Rise" which was intended to have echoes of Ellington, Mingus, Stravinsky and Copland. This, then, is an altogether incredible box set of Marsalis' unparalleled Long ...
Branford Marsalis has an impossibly weird resume for a jazz musician, from recording with the Grateful Dead to appearing with Vince Gill on an A&E Network all-request call-in show in 1999 to backing up Sting live in the 1980s. He's been "conducted" by Syracuse Symphony Orchestra music director Daniel Hege and spent some time as music director on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. But the term "jazz" wasn't even in his vocabulary when Marsalis left New Orleans in 1978. He remembers conversations with friends that drifted, unprovoked, from the Hawkins family to Stravinsky, to Weather Report and James Brown. "I never tried to categorize myself, and that's served me well," he says from his home in North Carolina. Some are straight covers of songs Bearden names paintings after, like James P...
... Shout." Others are by artists Bearden dug; Jelly Roll Morton's "Jungle Blues" is served up as bawdi...
If W.C. Handy is remembered at all, it's in conjunction with the annual awards for blues music that bear his name. Other seminal blues musicians -- notably Robert Johnson, Son House, Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton -- are more revered, viewed as more important to the development of the genre than Handy. Even though Handy wrote "The St. Louis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "The Yellow Dog Blues" and "The Memphis Blues," he is often forgotten, and sometimes dismissed as inconsequential.
Sidney Bechet was their obvious focus, but these archives include a session devoted to Jelly Roll Morton, and two non-summits: a Davern clarinet trio and a Wilber group with Ruby Braff. a minus Bill Frisell History, Mystery [Nonesuch] The string quartet at the heart of Frisell's latest revision of classical Americana-all name jazz musicians- forms the sea that his guitar swims through, occasionally rising up in wonder.
Gambit Weekly didn't distribute its "best-of" issue last week in New Orleans. At press time, employees of the local alternative weekly -- the Big Easy equivalent of Seven Days -- were escaping floodwaters that engulfed most of the city, including their offices. There's been no word from half the staff, but editor Michael Tisserand surfaced in Lafayette, Louisiana, and soon after wrote this essay. Though his family counts as one of "lucky" ones who were able to get out in time, his tale is still wrenching. It's still the hallowed ground of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, of Mardi Gras and jazz funerals that send off the dead with "Didn't He Ramble?" Of lesser-known purveyors of high spirits in bleak houses. I love New Orleans more than I've ever loved a particular place. Decisions...
It's still the hallowed ground of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, of Mardi Gras and jazz funerals that send off the dead with "Didn't He Ramble?" Of lesser-known purveyors of high spirits in bleak houses. I love New Orleans more than I've ever loved a particular place. A couple hundred miles away, we have new household decisions to make. "I'm getting pretty bored of not having school," my 7-year-old daughter announced today. A week ago, her life was filled with first-day-of-school excitement. Now, there's maybe a Catholic girls' academy. The public schools here are also taking in the children of New Orleans. My wife returned from a registration session, speaking through tears about the warmth and efficiency. Decisions. Maybe we'll call my daughter's first-grade teacher, who evacu...
Movies in which he has earned critical acclaim include "The Preacher's Wife," "Courage Under Fire," "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child," a TV Series in which he was the speaking voice of "Humpty Dumpty", "Devil in a Blue Dress," "Virtuosity," "Crimson Tide," "Philadelphia," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Malcolm X," "Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway," "Ricochet," and "Mississippi Masala," "Mo' Better Blues," "Heart Condition," "Glory," "Mighty Quinn," "For Queen and Country," "Cry Freedom," "The George McKenna Story," "Power," "The Soldier's Story," "License to Kill," "St. Elsewhere," "Carbon Copy" and "Flesh & Blood. Other movies that followed for the past weekend include "13 Going On 30," "Kill Bill Vol 2," "The Punisher," "Home on the range," "Scooby-Doo 2: Monst...
It's still the hallowed ground of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, of Mardi Gras and jazz funerals that send off the dead with "Didn't He Ramble?" -- of lesser-known purveyors of high spirits in bleak houses. I love New Orleans more than I've ever loved a particular place. A couple of hundred miles away, we have new household decisions to make. "I'm getting pretty bored of not having school," my 7-year-old daughter announced today. A week ago, her life was filled with first-day-of-school excitement. Now, there's maybe a Catholic girl's academy. The public schools are also taking in the children of New Orleans. My wife returned from a registration session, speaking through tears about the warmth and efficiency. Decisions. Maybe we'll call my daughter's first-grade teacher, who evac...
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