School of Syncopation - Jazz, Stride, Novelties & the Like

[quercus]

Just to clarify, Hal Leonard does sell digital versions, although it sounds like they're not downloadable as PDFs.

That said, you can find a bunch of them in PDF format on Anna's Archive.

[PhilM93]

Dear Quercus
Yes, they're not buyable in PDF. i've got some in physical form, just was wondering, if somebody has a few digitalized.
Whats anna's archive?
Regards
Philm93

[quercus]

Anna's Archive is one of the best sources for all kinds of PDF books. They decided not to compete with IMSLP, so their selection of classical scores is limited. But they do have a decent amount of jazz. They also have an extensive collection of in-print and out-of-print books about music.

Here's a link to get you started, but you might do better searching for exact titles.
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=jazz+piano+solos

[PhilM93]

Thanks for all the replies
Particularely i' m looking for the "swinging jazz"
Anna's archive is great. Found some good stuff there.
Thanks

[bingo]

From the 1983 Russian film "We Are Jazz" with music composed, conducted and played by Anatoli Kroll.
Piano arrangements by Stanislav Berezhnov

LP liner notes via Google Translate: We are from JAZZ

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Film music
Orchestra "Sovremennik" conducted by A. Kroll
Side 1
Ragtime (A. Kroll) 0.50
Smile of old Moscow (A. Kroll) -2.16
Rag disc (A. Krol) - 2.43
Hermitage, foxtrot (A. Kroll) - 2.04
Old piano (M. Minkov D. Ivanov) 2.21 O.Pirags and I. Sklyar
Blues of the old Arbat (A. Kroll) -3.42 Soloist E. E. Semenov, Cake-walk
clarinet (Smith, Groy, Williams) - 2.44 L. Valley
My good old ruin (Smith, Balkan) - 3.39 L. Valley
Side 2
I will play jazz (A. Kroll) 2.23 Soloist L. Gugnyaev, trumpet
In the gazebo (A. Kroll) -3.06
Rumba (A. Kroll) - 3.56 Soloist E. Semenov, alto saxophone
Journey into Jazz (A. Kroll) - 2.49 Soloist G. Garanyan, alto saxophone
Where the dream lives (A. Kroll) 4.01 Soloists: V. Guseinov, trumpet, G. Garanyan, alto saxophone O. Pirags
Thank you, music, to you (M. Minkov D. Ivanov) - 4.16

Arrangements by A. Kroll
Musical cinema is an ambiguous concept. This is a movie musical, a traditional musical comedy, and a film adaptation of an opera, or operettas.

The film “We Are From Jazz” is, by all indications, a cheerful musical comedy that is easy to watch and listen to. However, this film not only entertaining. It is the formation of Soviet jazz, one of the full-fledged genres of Soviet musical art. And the ease with which it was filmed and acted does not at all prevent us from perceiving
it as an educational film, if you like, telling about the first steps of Soviet jazz. It does not contain the specific names of those who laid the professional foundations of Soviet jazz instrumental music - A. Tsfasman, A. Varlamov, N. Minkha, but the spirit of these musicians seems to be invisibly present in the film, and the talented
director Karen Shakhnazarov and the actors performing the main The roles enthusiastically and seriously, although cheerfully, strive to convey the atmosphere of the musical life of the 20s, when new forms and genres of the then young Soviet art were maturing.
Is it worth talking about how important it is in a musical film? the role of music! Composer, conductor, artistic director Sovremennik Orchestra Anatoly Kroll did a great job
not only as the author of beautiful, elegant and precise in its “antique” style of jazz melodies (two songs by Mark Minkov are also heard in the film). He became, so to speak, the musical soul of the film, its musical director, who determined the climate and mood of this film. The evolution of the musical language within the film is
accurately traced: lovers of jazz music will notice this on this record, which features melodies in the spirit of the earliest forms of jazz. for (ragtime) and its later movements (early swing).
Anatoly Krolya also performed here as a soloist pianist, performing who performed all the piano parts, as a conductor who recorded the music of the film with his orchestra, which not only performed jazz retro music accurately, but also with warmth; In my opinion, people of all generations listen to it with great pleasure. Larisa Do
took part in the recording of the music for the film “We are from Jazz.”
Lina (she also starred in one of the roles in this film), actor Igor Sklyar (the leading actor) and singer Olga Pirags.
I am sure that this record will not only be appreciated
music lovers, but will also provide an opportunity to retain the impression
of an interesting musical film for a long time.
Yu. Saulsky, Honored Artist of the RSFSR

© "MELODY", 1983
All-Union Recording Studio, Recording 1983

ANATOLY KROLL Smile of Old Moscow [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

ANATOLY KROLL Where the Dream Lives [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

ANATOLY KROLL Journey to Jazz [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

ANATOLY KROLL In the Gazebo [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

ANATOLY KROLL I Will Play Jazz [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

ANATOLY KROLL Hermitage [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

ANATOLY KROLL Blues of Old Arbat [Stanislav Berezhnov].pdf

[Gamma1734]

Great, bingo, very nice!

[bingo]

Vincent Sorel has finished his transcription of the complete Zodiac Suite by Mary Lou Williams. It's on his site under https://jazz-transcriptions.blogspot.co ... liams.html

Vincent writes:

Written in 1945, the suite contains 12 parts corresponding to a sign of the zodiac and to musicians born under that sign. The suite was recorded in trio format, then played in concert with a big band (Ben Webster was guest soloist) and with an orchestra.
The trio format is fascinating. The music is very avant-garde, sounding like the 1950's third stream ; the harmonies are very modern for 1945 ; tempo changes all the time, alternating between a tempo and rubato…

Plenty more goodies to be found there.

[Oenanthic]

Hello, everyone. I've been a lurker here for some time, but this is the first time I've said anything.

Firstly, I can't express how much I appreciate what all of you do here. I'm a ragtime transcriber over on Musescore, and I've been able to find quite a few rare pieces here that I had long ago despaired of ever coming across.

I have a sheet music collection of my own, which I've already made public elsewhere by other means, but if anyone is interested I can upload some pieces from it here. I have a good collection of "other popular music" from the first two decades of the 20th century--that is, not ragtime, but not art music either.

Now, to my point. I have been pursuing for years now the "lost music" of Charles Astin (fl. 1883-1928), better known by his pseudonym Carl Lexhoizt. Astin, a lifelong resident of Newnan, Georgia, was a ragtime pioneer who composed the famous proto-rags "A La Georgia Jubilee" and "The Ebony Funeral," among others. He was also blind, and we have records of his attendance at the Georgia Academy for the Blind from 1871-1883. His first known piece, "Golden Rain Galop," was published by Oliver Ditson and Co. the year he graduated.

In 1889, Astin became a piano salesman, and to draw his customers' interest he began to note down and arrange the songs sung by African-American laborers in his area into syncopated medleys. Concerned that a link with such music might damage his professional reputation, he published the medleys as "Carl Lexhoizt." The rest, as they say, was history.

To date, only six of Astin's many compositions are generally available. "A La Georgia Jubilee" (1889) and "The Ebony Funeral" (1894) can be found in several places without too much difficulty, and the Library of Congress has scans of four more: "Clide Polka" (1883), "In the Gloaming" (1883), and the songs "Inez Rovina" (1883) and "Hannah Mariah" (1894). I also snagged pictures of what may be his last composition, "Old Man Moon" (1928), off an eBay listing a little while back.

However, there is at Emory University in Georgia a copy of a folio called "Sounds from Georgia: A Collection of Popular Piano Music," published at Newnan in 1902, containing twenty (!) pieces by Astin, including four by "Carl Lexhoizt." This folio appears to be unique. Given that Astin had only composed twenty-five known piano pieces before 1902, most of them must be in the folio; one of the Lexhoizt pieces is almost certainly "Coon-Gine Baby Dance," a syncopated medley advertised on the back of "The Ebony Funeral" in enough detail to establish it as an invaluable document of Georgia folk music and ragtime history.

Besides the folio, there are four of Astin's pieces at the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library: "Dixie Nationalities" (1893), "Knights of Pythias Grand March" (1895), "Marble Hearts Waltzes" (1895), and "The Fire Fly Waltzes" (1897). The Georgia Institute of Technology also has a copy of "Georgia Tech March" (1900). All of these are probably in the folio.

Alas, I have no way of getting to Georgia, nor does Emory seem willing to make a scan of the folio for any inducement. Is there anyone here from Georgia who might be able to do it, or have I missed some other potential avenue of getting a copy?

[quercus]

This is sort of a crazy idea. But you've got a college full of kids who might like to make a few bucks doing your library work. I wonder if contacting a couple faculty/staff at the music department would turn up any leads.

[Oenanthic]

You know, that's not a bad idea. I'll try it and see what happens. I'll be sure to post the folio here if I can actually get my hands on it.