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Complete recorded works in transcription / Sam Morgan's Jazz Band ; edited by John J. Joyce Jr., Bruce Boyd Raeburn, and Anthony M. Cummings.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Sam Morgan's Jazz Band, performer, composer.
- Series:
- Music of the United States of America ; 24.
- Recent researches in American Music ; 73.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Music of the United States of America ; Volume 24
- Recent researches in American Music ; Volume 73
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--1921-1930.
- Jazz.
- Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- Jazz--1921-1930--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Jazz.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (li, 260 pages)) : portrait.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2012.
- Summary:
- "This edition consists of musical transcriptions of all eight recordings of Sam Morgan's Jazz Band, made in New Orleans in 1927. These are among the first recordings of black New Orleans jazz bands made in their home city and, as the band consisted of musicians who stayed on in New Orleans after the Great Exodus to Chicago and New York in the early 1920s, the recordings preserve a purer form of the collectively improvised ensemble of the earliest black jazz bands. It is a loosely integrated, purely linear ensemble mass, a collective projecting of melodic lines close to the unassimilated heterophonic singing of the Black Primitive Baptist and Sanctified Churches. This proto jazz style was being rapidly eclipsed in the 1920s by more flamboyant and technically brilliant forms of New Orleans jazz being recorded by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Jelly Roll Morton. The scores contained herein are the first complete transcriptions of this rare and distinctive music to appear in print." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Recording session I (14 April 1927, New Orleans): Steppin' on the gas ; Everybody's talking about Sammy ; Mobile stomp ; Sing on
- Recording session II (22 October 1927, New Orleans): Short dress gal ; Bogalusa strut ; Down by the riverside ; Over in the gloryland.
- Notes:
- For jazz ensemble (2 trumpets, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone / clarinet, trombone, piano, banjo, string bass, and drums).
- Transcribed from digital remasterings of the original Columbia 78 rpm discs by John J. Joyce, Jr.
- Includes preface by Anthony M. Cummings; New Orleans jazz styles of the 1920s, Sam Morgan's Jazz Band, by Bruce Boyd Raeburn; and critical notes by John J. Joyce, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed February 5, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1084966143
- Publisher Number:
- A073 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)
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