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Jelly's Last Jam [1992 Original Cast] - Gregory Hines
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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
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  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
  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
  18. Last Chance Blues
  19. The Scene: Last Chance
  20. The Scene: Last Rites
  21. Creole Boy
  22. Finale (We Are the Rhythms That Color Your Song)
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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 ...

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Jelly's Last Jam [1992 Original Cast] 1994, Mercury

UPC: 731451084621

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