Jelly's Last Jam Original Broadway Cast
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- Release Date: 06/14/1994
- Original Release: 1992
- Sales Rank: 98,896
- Label: DECCA BROADWAY
- UPC: 731451084621
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Jelly's Last Jam
| 1 | Prologue / Keith David 1:11 |
| 2 | The Jam / Allison Williams 3:58 |
| 3 | In My Day / Allison Williams 3:39 |
| 4 | The Creole Way / Savion Glover 1:39 |
| 5 | The Whole World's Waitin'to Sing Your Song / Savion Glover 4:30 |
| 6 | Michigan Water / Mary Bond Davis 5:43 |
| 7 | The Banishment / Ann Duquesnay 4:13 |
| 8 | Somethin' More / Gregory Hines Includes The Pool Game 5:00 |
| 9 | That's How You Jazz / Gregory Hines 6:47 |
| 10 | The Chicago Strut / Keith David 3:24 |
| 11 | Play the Music for Me / Tonya Pinkins 3:12 |
| 12 | Lovin' Is a Lowdown Blues / Allison Williams 6:32 |
| 13 | Doctor Jazz / Gregory Hines 2:40 |
| 14 | Good Ole New York / Keith David 1:35 |
| 15 | Too Late, Daddy / Gregory Hines 3:28 |
| 16 | That's the Way We Do Things in New York / Gregory Hines 3:11 |
| 17 | Good Ole New York Reprise Door Slam 2:25 |
| 18 | Last Chance Blues / Gregory Hines 4:17 |
| 19 | The Scene: Last Chance / Allison Williams Incluse Central Avenue 2:02 |
| 20 | The Scene: Last Rites / Cast Includes Boy Pretty Boy 1:45 |
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Editorial Reviews
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, All Music Guide
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