Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

Jelly’s Last Jam [1992 Original Cast]

RELEASE
1992
LABEL
Mercury
GENRES
Soundtrack, Cast Recordings, Show Tunes

Album Review

The good news is that Gregory Hines, playing the part of Jelly Roll Morton in this successful Broadway musical, creates a full-bodied character and performs it with conviction and gusto. His Jelly is proud, impressive, and ultimately tragic. The bad news is that he is also fictional: Writer-director George C. Wolfe has distorted Jelly Roll Morton's true story to tell a fable about African-American assimilation and the evolution of jazz. Unfortunately, Luther Henderson's musical adaptation does to Morton's music what Wolfe does to his life, and the result will be frowned upon by jazz fans, even though it conforms to Broadway conventions.
– William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Prologue
  2. The Jam
  3. In My Day
  4. The Creole Way
  5. The Whole World's Waitin'to Sing Your Song
  6. Michigan Water
  7. The Banishment
  8. Somethin' More [Includes The Pool Game]
  9. That's How You Jazz
  10. The Chicago Strut
  11. Play the Music for Me
  12. Lovin' Is a Lowdown Blues
  13. Doctor Jazz
  14. Good Ole New York
  15. Too Late, Daddy
  16. That's the Way We Do Things in New York
  17. Good Ole New York Reprise [Door Slam]
  18. Last Chance Blues
  19. The Scene: Last Chance [Incluse Central Avenue]
  20. The Scene: Last Rites [Includes Boy Pretty Boy]
  21. Creole Boy
  22. Finale (We Are the Rhythms That Color Your Song)