Jelly Roll Morton

FROM THE SHOW: CREOLES AND COWGIRLS: CHARLIE GABRIEL & THE QUEBE SISTERS

December 11th, 2019 • SEGMENT

From the show "Creoles and Cowgirls: Charlie Gabriel & the Quebe Sisters" originally aired on December 11th, 2019

FROM THE SHOW: AFTER THE STORM VI: CHRISTMAS IN NEW ORLEANS

December 21st, 2005 • INTERVIEW

From the show "After the Storm VI: Christmas in New Orleans" originally aired on December 21st, 2005

FROM THE SHOW: JELLY ROLL MORTON

January 5th, 2005 • INTERVIEW

From the show "Jelly Roll Morton" originally aired on January 5th, 2005

FROM THE SHOW: JELLY ROLL MORTON

December 5th, 2001 • INTERVIEW

Pianist Jelly Roll Morton of New Orleans claimed to have invented jazz, and was certainly its first composer. In 1938 with Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress, Morton sketched the origins of jazz in a series of INTERVIEW:s and performances, excerpted here, with commentary from New Orleans clarinetist and researcher Dr. Michael White, and Dan Morganstern, the director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies.

AR LIVE: LOUISIANA NEW YEAR'S PARTY WITH CAJUN & ZYDECO AND NEW ORLEANS PIANO & SONG

December 30th, 2020 • FULL SHOW

Join us for a Louisiana New Year's Party, complete with Cajun and Creole zydeco tunes to get you up and dancing, and New Orleans piano and song. First stop, live on stage in Lafayette with Beausoleil and Terrance Simien's Zydeco Experience. Then, back home to New Orleans for a special live set with pianoman Tom McDermott and vocalist Meschiya Lake, who bring us favorite from pianists, Jelly Roll Morton, Allen Toussaint and Dr. John and singers Memphis Minnie, Mahalia Jackson and Patsy Cline.

CREOLES AND COWGIRLS: CHARLIE GABRIEL & THE QUEBE SISTERS

December 11th, 2019 • FULL SHOW

We hit up Preservation Hall in the French Quarter for a potent dose of trad jazz, as bandleader and fourth-generation Creole musician Charlie Gabriel tells of his Caribbean roots, jazz funerals, and New Orleans' hybrid rhythms. Then we head to the Lonestar state to hear the reworking of jazz into Texas swing, as played by the Quebe Sisters. The fiddling siblings tell of their sheltered upbringing outside Ft. Worth and their fiery baptism into western swing. Plus, we spin other pioneering Creoles--Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Fats Domino--and country & western greats from Bob Wills to Willie Nelson.

CREOLES AND COWGIRLS: CHARLIE GABRIEL AND THE QUEBE SISTERS

May 30th, 2018 • FULL SHOW

We hit up Preservation Hall in the French Quarter for a potent dose of trad jazz, as bandleader and fourth-generation Creole musician Charlie Gabriel tells of his Caribbean roots, jazz funerals, and New Orleans' hybrid rhythms. Then we head to the Lonestar state to hear the reworking of jazz into Texas swing, as played by the Quebe Sisters. The fiddling siblings tell of their sheltered upbringing outside Ft. Worth and their fiery baptism into western swing. Plus, we spin other pioneering Creoles -- Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Fats Domino -- and country & western greats from Bob Wills to Willie Nelson.

CREOLES AND COWGIRLS: CHARLIE GABRIEL AND THE QUEBE SISTERS

October 18th, 2017 • FULL SHOW

We hit up Preservation Hall in the French Quarter for a potent dose of trad jazz, as bandleader and fourth-generation Creole musician Charlie Gabriel tells of his Caribbean roots, jazz funerals, and New Orleans' hybrid rhythms. Then we head to the Lonestar state to hear the reworking of jazz into Texas swing, as played by the Quebe Sisters. The fiddling siblings tell of their sheltered upbringing outside Ft. Worth and their fiery baptism into western swing. Plus, we spin other pioneering Creoles -- Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Fats Domino -- and country & western greats from Bob Wills to Willie Nelson.

CREOLE EYES AND CLASSICAL EARS: TOM MCDERMOTT AND VAN DYKE PARKS

June 1st, 2016 • FULL SHOW

Conversation with and music from Van Dyke Parks, an eclectic, popular classicist known as a composer and keyboardist, arranger and producer, with a great love of calypso and Hawaiian cowboy music. The man behind the curtain for so many artists, the Hollywood-based Parks is well-regarded for writing and studio work with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Ry Cooder, Lowell George and Randy Newman, among many. He recently became a fan of pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis-born, New Orleans-dwelling and Brazilian-influenced vernacular virtuoso. Parks thought enough of McDermott's recorded repertoire to collect and reissue some of it as Bamboula--so named for the composition by the mutually-admired New Orleans 19th century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Tom McDermott, also a fan of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair and James Booker, plays in his parlor for us.

VAN DYKE PARKS & TOM MCDERMOTT

July 22nd, 2015 • FULL SHOW

Conversation with and music from Van Dyke Parks, an eclectic, popular classicist known as a composer and keyboardist, arranger and producer, with a great love of calypso and Hawaiian cowboy music. The man behind the curtain for so many artists, the Hollywood-based Parks is well-regarded for writing and studio work with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Ry Cooder, Lowell George and Randy Newman, among many. He recently became a fan of pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis-born, New Orleans-dwelling and Brazilian-influenced vernacular virtuoso. Parks thought enough of McDermott's recorded repertoire to collect and reissue some of it as Bamboula -- so named for the composition by the mutually-admired New Orleans 19th century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Tom McDermott, also a fan of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair and James Booker, plays in his parlor for us.

CREOLE EYES AND CLASSICAL EARS: VAN DYKE PARKS & TOM MCDERMOTT

January 7th, 2015 • FULL SHOW

Conversation with and music from Van Dyke Parks, an eclectic, popular classicist known as a composer and keyboardist, arranger and producer, with a great love of calypso and Hawaiian cowboy music. The man behind the curtain for so many artists, the Hollywood-based Parks is well-regarded for writing and studio work with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Ry Cooder, Lowell George and Randy Newman, among many. He recently became a fan of pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis-born, New Orleans-dwelling and Brazilian-influenced vernacular virtuoso. Parks thought enough of McDermott's recorded repertoire to collect and reissue some of it as Bamboula--so named for the composition by the mutually-admired New Orleans 19th century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Tom McDermott, also a fan of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair and James Booker, plays in his parlor for us.

CREOLE EYES AND CLASSICAL EARS: VAN DYKE PARKS & TOM MCDERMOTT

April 23rd, 2014 • FULL SHOW

Conversation with, and music from, Van Dyke Parks, an eclectic, popular classicist known as a composer and keyboardist, arranger and producer, with a great love of calypso and Hawaiian cowboy music. The man behind the curtain for so many artists, the Hollywood-based Parks is well-regarded for writing and studio work with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Ry Cooder, Lowell George and Randy Newman, among many others. He recently became a fan of pianist Tom McDermott, a St. Louis-born, New Orleans-dwelling and Brazilian-influenced vernacular virtuoso. Parks thought enough of McDermott's recorded repertoire to collect and reissue some of it as Bamboula -- so-named for the composition by the mutually-admired New Orleans 19th century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Tom McDermott, also a fan of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair and James Booker, plays in his parlor for us.

DAVID AMRAM & MARCUS ROBERTS

October 20th, 2010 • FULL SHOW

We profile two men that begin in classical and jazz and move in different directions. Buttressed by a conservatory background, French horn player and composer David Amram moves freely and eclectically across genres of Latin, jazz, folk and classical music. Blind pianist Marcus Roberts speaks about his time spent as protege of Wynton Marsalis and looking back over the history of jazz to his touchstones, James P. Johnson, Monk, Jelly Roll Morton and others.

DAVID AMRAM & MARCUS ROBERTS

November 12th, 2008 • FULL SHOW

We profile two men that begin in classical and jazz and move in differing directions. Buttressed by a conservatory background, French horn player and composer David Amram moves freely and eclectically across genres of Latin, jazz, folk and classical music. Blind pianist Marcus Roberts speaks about his time spent as protege of Wynton Marsalis, and looks back over the history of jazz to his touchstones: James P. Johnson, Monk, Jelly Roll Morton and others.

DAVID AMRAM & MARCUS ROBERTS

July 11th, 2007 • FULL SHOW

We profile two men that begin in classical and jazz and move in differing directions. Buttressed by a conservatory background, French horn player and composer David Amram moves freely and eclectically across genres of Latin, jazz, folk and classical music. Blind pianist Marcus Roberts speaks about his time spent as protÃ©gÃ© of Wynton Marsalis, and looks back over the history of jazz to his touchstones, James P. Johnson, Monk, Jelly Roll Morton and others.

AFTER THE STORM VII: NEW YEARS

December 28th, 2005 • FULL SHOW

We look back at the year 2005 that brought catastrophe to the Gulf Coast region, and look forward to the rebuilding and rejuvenation of the area through music, including Duke Ellington's great New Orleans Suite. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield joins us to narrate a recent live performance of his new composition "All the Saints" with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra from Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. Also, traditional jazz clarinetist Dr. Michael White ruminates on the loss of musical collections, from a King Oliver clarinet to Jelly Roll Morton sheet music, and carrying on post-Katrina. And a montage of voices from victims of Hurricane Rita in French southwest Louisiana.

AFTER THE STORM VI: CHRISTMAS IN NEW ORLEANS

December 21st, 2005 • FULL SHOW

Sleigh Bells will be ringing in New Orleans, and there will be plenty of great seasonal music as well. Plus, jazz writer and musicologist John Szwed talks about the Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress recordings.

JELLY ROLL MORTON

January 5th, 2005 • FULL SHOW

New Orleans pianist, composer, raconteur and the self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz" is featured through original Library of Congress music and oral history sessions, and interviews with jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern. The pervasive influence of Morton's music includes the swing-era sounds of Benny Goodman to recent revivals by Dr. Michel White and Wynton Marsalis.

'WHERE HAVE ALL THE FOLK SONGS GONE?': THE ALAN LOMAX LEGACY AND A CONVERSATION W/PETE SEEGER

July 16th, 2003 • FULL SHOW

A year after his passing, American Routes remembers Alan Lomax, the great folklorist, musicologist and documentarian. While working mostly for the Library of Congress, Lomax made groundbreaking recordings with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and countless others. Family and friends, contemporaries and musicians recall his many accomplishments. Lomax's sometime collaborator Pete Seeger took a different route as a singer of folksongs. The great social activist, environmentalist, and banjoman, Pete Seeger speaks of his life in music and social justice--two things he's brought together for over 60 years.

JELLY ROLL MORTON

December 5th, 2001 • FULL SHOW

Jelly Roll Morton, the New Orleans pianist, composer, raconteur and the self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz," is featured through original Library of Congress music and oral history sessions, and interviews with jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern. Pervasive influence of Morton's music includes the swing-era sounds of Benny Goodman to recent revivals by Dr. Michael White and Wynton Marsalis.

JERRY LEE LEWIS

February 7th, 2001 • FULL SHOW

It's a back porch visit with Jerry Lee Lewis, the undisputed king of country boogie piano. He talks about the music that influenced him growing up in Ferriday, Louisiana, all the way to Sun Records in Memphis. Plus other great piano players: Fats Domino, Jelly Roll Morton, Moon Mullican and Ray Charles, and Thelonious Monk.

JELLY ROLL MORTON

January 31st, 2001 • FULL SHOW

New Orleans pianist, composer, raconteur and the self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz" is featured through original Library of Congress music and oral history sessions, and interviews with jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern. Pervasive influence of Morton's music includes the swing-era sounds of Benny Goodman to recent revivals by Dr. Michel White and Wynton Marsalis.

'BREATHLESS': MUSIC, MAYHEM AND MEDITATIONS WITH JERRY LEE LEWIS

November 3rd, 1999 • FULL SHOW

American Routes converses with the killer himself at his ranch in Nesbit, MS! In the aftermath of a fan frenzy event, it's a back porch visit with Jerry Lee Lewis, the undisputed king of country boogie piano, about his historic bad-boy antics and his place in the history of rock and roll. Plus music that influenced Jerry Lee from his Delta boyhood in Ferriday Louisiana to his golden piano throne at Memphis Sun Records. Included are other great piano players like Fats Domino, Jelly Roll Morton, Moon Mullican and Ray Charles, as well as an original blues version of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" by Big Maybelle. Also avant piano sounds from Thelonius Monk and Medeski, Martin and Wood, and a tribute to the late king of zydeco nouveau accordion, Beau Jocque.

JELLY ROLL MORTON

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