Biographical

• Jelly Roll Morton's famous Aug. & Sept. 1938 letters to Downbeat Magazine, "I created jazz in 1902, not W.C. Handy."
  at bottom of Downbeat Archives page, put Jelly Roll in the search box.

• Jelly Roll Morton's gravesite courtesy of FindAGrave.com
  search by name, put jelly roll morton in the search boxes

• Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2d ed. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2002. ISBN 1561592846

• Russell, William. "Oh Mr. Jelly": A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook. Copenhagen : JazzMedia, 1999 ISBN: 8788043266 Contains facsimilies of handwritten Morton manuscripts, now held in the William Russell Jazz Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

• Lomax, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll: The fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz". Updated, with a new afterward by Lawrence Gushee. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 0520225309

• Pastras, Philip. Dead man blues : Jelly Roll Morton way out West Berkeley : University of California Press ; [Chicago] : Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago, c2001. ISBN: 0520215230

• Reich, Howard and William Gaines. Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN: 0306812096

• Williams, Martin. Jelly Roll Morton. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc. 1963. No ISBN

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  Printed Music

• Photo of the original manuscript of Frog-i-more Rag from the Library of Congress.

• Dapogny, James. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton: The collected piano music. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press/ New York: G. Schirmer, 1982. ISBN 0874743516

• Hood, Mary Allen and Helen M. Flint, eds. "Jelly Roll" Morton : the original Mr. Jazz. New York: Edwin H. Morris, [197-?]

• Morton, Jelly Roll and Artis Stiffey Wodehouse. Jelly Roll Morton: The Piano Rolls Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1999.

• Morton, Jelly Roll. The Best of Jelly Roll Morton: Piano solos. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1993.

• Jelly Roll Morton piano rolls courtesy of Bluesrolls.com

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  Recordings

  Too many to cite them all! However, here are some basics. Assume the format is CD unless otherwise noted.

• Jelly Roll Morton, Birth of the hot : the classic Chicago "Red Hot Peppers" sessions (1926-27) RCA Bluebird 66641-2, 1995.

• Jelly Roll Morton : the complete Library of Congress recordings by Alan Lomax. Rounder Records 11661-1888-2 2005.

• Jelly Roll Morton, Blues and stomps from rare piano rolls. Biograph BCD-111, 1989.

• Jelly Roll Morton, The Jelly Roll Morton centennial : his complete Victor recordings, 1926-30, 1939. Bluebird 2361-2-RB A--2361-2-RB p1990.

• Jelly Roll Morton, Last sessions : the complete General Recordings (his last commercial sessions) Verve/GRP CMD-403

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  Books

• Lomax, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll. (reprint of 1949 ed.) New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. ISBN 0679740643

• Williams, Martin. Jelly Roll Morton. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc. 1963. No ISBN<

• Balliett, Whitney. American musicians II: seventy-one portraits in jazz. 2d ed. New York:Oxford University Press, 1996.ISBN: 0195095383

• Dodds, Warren ("Baby"). The Baby Dodds story. Rev. ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0807117560 (pbk.)

• Driggs, Frank and Harris Lewine. Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz 1920-1950. New York: DaCapo Press, 1995. ISBN 030680672X (paper)

• Hennessey, Thomas J. From jazz to swing: African-American jazz musicians and their music, 1890-1935. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0814321798

• Hentoff, Nat. Jazz:new perspectives on the history of jazz by twelve of the world's foremost jazz critics and scholars. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974. ISBN: 0306705923

• Hodes, Art. Selections from the gutter: Jazz portraits from "The Jazz record." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. ISBN: 0520029992

• Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the birth of recorded jazz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0253331366

• Kenney, W. Howland. Chicago jazz: a cultural history, 1904-1930. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994 1993. ISBN:0195092600 (pbk)

• Miller, Paul Eduard. Esquire's 1946 Jazz Book. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979 (reprint of 1946 ed.) ISBN 0306795272

• Ramsey, Frederic. Jazzmen. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 1959 ISBN: 0156462052

• Shapiro, Nat. ed. The jazz makers: essays on the greats of jazz. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979. ISBN: 0306801051 (pbk.)

• Shapiro, Nat. ed. Hear me talkin' to ya: the story of jazz by the men who made it. New York: Rinehart, 1955. NO ISBN

• Shaw, Arnold. The jazz age: popular music in the 1920's. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 1987. ISBN: 0195060822 (pbk)