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  Jelly Roll Morton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 - July 10, 1941) was a virtuoso pianist, a bandleader, and a composer who some call the first true composer of Jazz music.
Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers were one of the first acts booked on tours by MCA.
Morton's "Jelly Roll" nickname is a sexual reference and many of his lyrics from his Storyville days were vulgar.
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 Jelly roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A jelly roll (known outside of the United States as Swiss roll) is a cylindrical cake containing jelly or jam.
A Swiss roll made with a chocolate flavoured sponge and containing a chocolate fondant is sometimes called a chocolate log.
The term jelly roll is also sexual slang, used to indicate variously, a lover, intercourse, or the sexual parts.
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 Jelly bean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jelly beans or jelly eggs are a type of confectionery that comes in many different (primarily fruit) flavors.
The interior jelly traces its origin back thousands of years to the candy called Turkish Delight while the shell is essentially the same as developed in the late 19th century for the Jordan almond candy.
In United States slang in the 1910s and early 1920s a Jelly bean or Jellybean was a young man who made great effort to dress very stylishly (usually to attract women) but had little else to recommend him; similar to the older terms dandy and fop and the slightly later drugstore cowboy.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jelly_bean   (324 words)

  
 Ferd Jelly Roll Morton - Absolutely The Best
While that name is practically unknown, his stage name of Jelly Roll Morton is far better known in the jazz world.
Morton claimed during his life that he was in fact, the inventor of jazz, a claim that won him derision among the critics and his peers of the time.
It gives one pause to think that maybe Jelly Roll Morton was not shamelessly self-promoting when he said that he was indeed the father of jazz.
www.canehdian.com /non/artists/m/jellyrollmorton/reviews.html   (674 words)

  
 The Compositions of Jelly Roll Morton 1923 - 1941
Half a century after his death in 1941, Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton stands established not only as an outstanding jazz pianist who combined elements of ragtime, blues, vaudeville and hokum into a highly individual style, but also as the first truly significant jazz composer.
Jelly made it quite clear that these principles should be strictly adhered to by others when playing or recording his music, and complained that his compositions had sometimes been "loused up" by incorrect or unsympathetic performance.
Jelly explained that "The Stomp" did not come from Kansas City but was composed in Tijuana, Mexico and dedicated to the Kansas City Bar, owned by a friend "who was unfortunate and had to go to the penitentiary for twenty years." Jelly Roll Blues was originally known as The Chicago Blues and had lyrics added.
www.redhotjazz.com /mortonarticle.html   (1558 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Morton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers were one of the first acts booked on tours by (Click link for more info and facts about MCA) MCA.
Morton moved to (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City in 1928, where he continued to record for Victor.
Morton's " (Click link for more info and facts about Jelly Roll) Jelly Roll" (A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)) nickname is a sexual reference and many of his lyrics from his Storyville days were vulgar.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jelly_roll_morton.htm   (1197 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Morton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jelly Roll learned to play the guitar at the age of six, but his real love was the piano and by the age of 12 he was playing piano in the Storyville Bordellos, (a New Orleans district).
Jelly Roll traveled throughout the south playing in vaudeville and minstrel shows and he played in both New York and Chicago.
Jelly Roll was one of the very first giants of Jazz, however his own excesses had sabotaged his career.
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 jazzbrat.com - Jelly Roll Morton
Yes, everything you’ve heard about Jelly Roll Morton is true.
Jelly Lord' as the self-declared master of female lubrication.
This eventually became 'Jelly Roll', an old slang term for a woman or her genitalia.
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 JELLY ROLL MORTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Note: Jelly Roll was the first to tell of the Storyville professors in the first decade of the 20th century, and his spoken dialogue on the Library of Congress recordings spins out a fascinating story of the accomplishments of these fine, yet obscure musicians.
Jelly Roll appeared with a number of vaudeville companies on many such tours just a few years later than the date of the article.
According to Jelly Roll, Tony Jackson was "the world's greatest single-handed entertainer," and Albert Carroll played with "a perfect perfection of passing tones and strange harmonies." Alas, both these performers were never to record, and left no permanent legacy of their outstanding abilities.
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 It must be Jelly ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New Orleans native Ferdinand Joseph Le Menthe, enshrined in Jazz folklore as Jelly Roll Morton, was born in 1885 to a middle class Creole family on Frenchmen Street at the corner of Robertson.
Jelly's demeanor during the first half of the twentieth century could be comparable to a young Muhammad Ali decades later.
Jelly capped a brilliant and some would say controversial musical career with a massive recording session for the Library of Congress in 1938, where he related his version of Jazz History to Alan Lomax and illustrated it with piano solos and songs.
www.neworleansonline.com /neworleans/music/morton.html   (1076 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Jelly Roll Morton had a hit with his 1923 version of Wolverine Blues.
Jelly Roll assembled a group of musicians who could play in the New Orleans style and called them the Red Hot Peppers.
Morton moved to New York and assembled another version of the band and went on to record with Victor until 1930.
www.redhotjazz.com /redhot.html   (130 words)

  
 Crafts : Jewelry : Jelly Roll Pendant : Home & Garden Television
Finish by folding and rolling until the sheet is soft and pliable.
Roll the combined clay through the pasta machine at the thickest setting, making certain that at least two colors physically touch the rollers.
Roll a ball of silver-colored clay and shape it as desired to form the basic shape for the pendant (figure G).
www.hgtv.com /hgtv/cr_clay_jewelry/article/0,,HGTV_3238_1388650,00.html   (655 words)

  
 "Jelly Roll Blues"
The following manuscript of Jelly Roll Morton's "Jelly Roll Blues" was transcribed from the Smithsonian Library recordings made in 1938 by Morton.
In fact, he does it three times already in the four bar introduction of "Jelly Roll Blues": between the and of 4 /bar 1 and the and of 1/bar 2; between the 1/bar 3 and the and of 1/ bar 3; between the 1/bar 4, and the 3/bar 4.
In "Jelly Roll Blues", for example, this heavy, swing scansion characterizes all of the variations of the second strain (in Eb Major).
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 Apricot Jelly Roll Recipe - Chocolate Apricot Cake Roll or Roulade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Line a jelly roll pan with waxed paper, aluminum foil, or parchment paper.
While the cake is still warm, turn it so a long edge is before you, and roll up the cake in the towel, keeping the long edges uncurled.
Roll up the cake again and set it seamside down on a serving plate.
www.dianaskitchen.com /page/cake/roulade.htm   (287 words)

  
 VH1.com : Jelly Roll Morton : Biography
One of the very first giants of jazz, Jelly Roll Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth, claiming to have invented jazz in 1902.
Jelly Roll Morton's pre-1923 activities are shrouded in legend.
Jelly Roll Morton's early piano solos and classic Victor recordings (along with nearly every record he made) have been reissued on CD.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/morton_jelly_roll/bio.jhtml   (612 words)

  
 PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Jelly Roll Morton
NPR's Murray Horwitz and jazz critic and poet AB Spellman recommend An Introduction to Jelly Roll Morton — His Best Recordings, 1926-1939 (Best of Jazz).
Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans and started to learn piano at the age of ten.
Eventually he traveled as far east as New York (where Jaynes P. Johnson heard Morton play his Jelly Roll Blues in 1911), and as far west as Los Angeles, where he arrived in 1917.
www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_morton_jelly_roll.htm   (814 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jelly Roll Morton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Tom is short for Thomas).
The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish Los Ángeles, meaning the angels), also known as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers.
Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jelly-Roll-Morton   (2220 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Morton | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers were one of the first acts booked on tours by MCA.
Morton's " Jelly Roll" nickname is a sexual reference and many of his lyrics from his Storyville days were vulgar.
Dukes of Dixieland: Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton, by Kultur
www.tutorgig.co.uk /ed/Jelly_Roll_Morton   (1422 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Cake Recipes
Fill it with jams or jellies, lemon or tangerine curd, pastry cream, ice cream or just about anything your imagination can conjure.
Starting from one short edge, roll up the cke and the towel together, like a jelly roll.
Roll up from the short side, without the towel this time and transfer, seam side down, to a serving platter.
www.fabulousfoods.com /recipes/dessert/cakes/jellyrollcake.html   (275 words)

  
 Selected Bibliography: Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton's famous Aug. and Sept. 1938 letters to Downbeat Magazine, "I created jazz in 1902, not W.C. Handy."
Mister Jelly Roll: The fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz".
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the birth of recorded jazz.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/cja/jelly.html   (365 words)

  
 Malaspina Great Books - Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe) Morton (1885-1941)
In the English creole of the Caribbean, "jelly" refers to the meat of the coconut when it is still at a white, viscous stage, and in a form closely resembling semen.
On the street, jelly roll had many associated meanings, from the respectable 'lover, or spouse', to the Harlem slang of the 1930s, 'a term for the vagina'.
So a lover admired his 'jelly bean' and the way she could 'jello' and prided himself on being a 'good jelly-roll baker.' But the baker made not only jelly roll but also other foods.
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 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Jelly Roll" Morton (Ferdinand Joseph LeMothe Mouton) seems to have been born in New Orleans in 1890.
The "Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers" sides made in Chicago in 1926-1927 are some of the most highly regarded records in jazz history.
"Jelly was partly right in his claim that he invented jazz-- that is, his type of jazz.
www.geocities.com /infrogmation/Morton.html   (563 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Morton
New Orleans native Ferdinand Joseph Le Menthe, enshrined in Jazz folklore as Jelly Roll Morton, was born in 1885 to a middle class Creole family at the corner of Robertson and Frenchmen Street in New Orleans.
Jazz connoisseurs consider Jelly's work during this period to be one of the defining moments for twentieth century popular music.
When he initially met Jelly Roll Morton, the first thing that Morton said to the astonished Collins was, 'you know you will be working for the world's best Jazz Piano player...not one of the greatest - I am the Greatest'." His confidence or 'cockiness' was ever present.
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 Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton was the first great composer and piano player of Jazz.
Jelly Roll died just before the Dixieland revival rescued so many of his peers from musical obscurity.
Jelly Roll Morton An Essay in Discography by Thomas Cusack, Cassell & Co., 1952
www.redhotjazz.com /jellyroll.html   (387 words)

  
 Jelly Roll recipe given by Chef Brad brings back a desert from simpler times.
Jelly Roll recipe given by Chef Brad brings back a desert from simpler times.
Line a shallow jelly roll pan (or any low sided baking sheet) with full width of waxed paper so it extends 1/2 inch all around over edge of pan.
Roll cup from narrow-side into an even roll, the roll up on the towel.
www.oldetimecooking.com /Recipes/jellyroll.htm   (329 words)

  
 Duke Ellington's Washington: Notable Black Washingtonians: Musicians
He fell in love with the rolling style and the chatty worldliness of the itinerant piano players, whose style he combined with that of the "academic" pianists such as Henry Grant, with whom he studied.
Jazz musician Ferdinand Joseph "Jelly Roll" Morton was born in New Orleans.
Jelly Roll Morton lived out his last years in Washington, D.C. He played his music on U Street, at a small club known as the Jungle Inn in the late 1930s, and died in Los Angeles in 1941.
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 Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Jelly Roll Morton biographer Phil Pastras interview
When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden.
Jelly Roll, and you see his comment concerning "originating jazz," it really has to do with his claim that he recognized there was a distinct genre emerging and he wanted to give it a name to distinguish it from ragtime and blues and other forms of music.
I can just imagine Jelly Roll, had he lived another six or seven years, would have been on call constantly for the New Orleans revival thing and would have probably been unable to turn it down because he needed the money and it could have helped his career.
www.jerryjazzmusician.com /mainHTML.cfm?page=pastras.html   (5598 words)

  
 JELLY ROLL BLUES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jelly Roll Morton had a tendency to exaggerate.
Printed on his business card was "Inventor of Jazz." But there was a kernel of truth behind the claim: he was among the first important composers and recording stars in jazz, and was the first to write down his remarkable jazz compositions in musical notation.
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" by Alan Lomax (Paperback - June 1993)
www.riverwalk.org /proglist/showpromo/jellyrollblues_sac2k.htm   (311 words)

  
 Jelly Roll Morton
The story of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger, was later issued as a book, Mister Jelly Roll, edited by interviewer Alan Lomax, one of the most prolific collectors of American folk music for the Library of Congress.
Like the (nick)name of Jelly Roll (the "winding boy") indicates, his world was one of fast women, booze, gambling, voodoo - and jazz.
Anyway, Jelly Roll Morton thought of himself as the originator of jazz as such.
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