When we think of the folk revival of the 1960s Bob Dylan often comes to mind. Here are some nearly forgotten women who were ...

The Bamboo Bar at the famous Oriental Hotel was set up in 1953 during a period when the hotel had several owners, including ...

The following is an opinion column written by an Echo Press editorial staff member. It does not necessarily reflect the views ...

Obviously, a hat-tip to Freud's contemporary. Pleasure's vocalese, incorporating a well-known Jelly Roll Morton solo and R-rated definition of 'jelly roll,' cooks. That's followed by Pleasure's ...

While San Diego is skipping official events, Tijuana embraces UNESCO's International Jazz Day with concerts and deep musical roots that resonate on both sides of the border.

Nats doctor jazz music Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton, worked in Tijuana from 1917 to 1922, according to Arrizon. At a bar called the Kansas City Bar where he is ...

Harlem, the place to be. So hip, Roy Haynes once told me, cats said they would rather go to Harlem than to heaven.

Summers were spent listening to Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton, and making up simple songs during roadtrips with his family. He dropped out of high school to design fanzines, play music ...

I mean hot as entertainment, of course, but also, even hotter, as history. The score is built around Jelly Roll Morton’s own music — with lyrics by Susan Birkenhead and some additional music ...

What happens when you cross Rick Astley with ragtime, or Justin Bieber with Jelly Roll Morton? Welcome to Postmodern Jukebox ...