Russell Davies presents a 52-part history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings to the end of the millennium. 8: Original Jelly Roll Blues. So extravagant were the claims that
Jelly Roll Morton made for himself in interviews at the end of his life that they threatened to undermine his real achievements as the first great jazz composer and the man who helped to make the jump from ragtime to jazz.
Repeated from Saturday 6pm