Sorry folks. I meant to point this out earlier and forgot.

Discovering Music is a Radio 3 programme which normally discusses the works of classical composers. The subject of last Sunday's programme however, was none other than Jelly Roll Morton!

The on air moment has passed and gone, but can still be caught on Listen Again until Sunday 27th Feb at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yrhf7 . Here's the programme blurb.

The end of October 2010 saw the 120th anniversary of the birth of one of the most colourful and lively figures in jazz - Jelly Roll Morton. So to commemorate that anniversary, Alyn Shipton explores some of the musical legacies of the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz.
Alyn Shipton looks at some of Morton's forerunners (including Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Scott Joplin) with help from the pianist Philip Martin, and at Morton's own musical style - with comment from one of the world's foremost authorites on classic jazz and ragtime - Keith Nichols.