Jelly's Blues vividly recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), born Ferdinand Joseph Lamonthe to a large, extended family in New Orleans.

A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans playing the piano in bars, then traveled the country as a jazz musician.

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 s

Dramatizes the life of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer, and self-proclaimed inventor of jazz.