Search - Jim Turner :: Jelly Roll Blues: Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton

Since 2003, Jim Turner, one of those "modern" musicians who is spellbound by Jelly Roll Morton's "antique" music, has been the pianist in the Jim Cullum Jazz Band based in San Antonio, Texas. If you listen closely enough, Jelly Roll Morton's scratchy old piano records are actually little miracles of exciting and inventive music making. They radiate propelling rhythmic force. They shimmer with lovely melodies and technical brilliance. And, if you listen really closely, you can almost hear the echo of an entire New Orleans jazz band.... and the very birth of jazz.