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Louisiana Music Factory Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton:The Collected Piano Music Hal Leonard 0-87474-351-6
	Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton:The Collected Piano Music James Dapogny oversized paperback pp. Hal Leonard 0-87474-351-6	$35.00
NOTES: "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941) was the first great jazz artist - being a composer, pianist and bandleader. His wide-ranging tastes and diverse influences shaped his earliest compositions-and he developed into the first American composer with a unique, distinctive jazz piano style. From the vantage point of a jazz scholar, James Dapogny presents Morton the composer and Morton the pianist in Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton: The Collected Piano Music. THis volume is a first-of-its kind edition of a jazz musician's work. It contains a version of every original piano solo piece that Morton ever recorded or published. Most have been transcribed by Dapogny from Morton's own performances. They are notated in meticulous detail with performance-practice comments. Thirty-four of Morton's recorded performances are notated completely. Supplementary notations of important parts of twenty-one other band, piano, or piano-roll performances are also included. Six pieces are given in their original published versions. In addition there is a survey of Morton's career from his first appearance as a recording artist in 1923 to his last in 1940. The volume also contains Dapogny's brief biography of Morton, publication and copyright history of the compositions, critical and historical notes, reproductions of sheet music covers and Morton manuscripts, and four never-before-published photographs of Morton Transcriber-editor James Dapogny is a traditional jazz pianist, leader of James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band, and Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan.

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