Pianophilia

Not, perhaps, strictly speaking syncopated - unless you perform as raggedly as I ! - but Platzman nonetheless Regards,
tobyjj

Dear Tobyjj,
I didn't know about these two pieces by Eugene Platzman, they're interesting although not syncopated.
I'd add something about Maceo Pinkard, of whom Frank has posted some great songs.
Of course his most famous song was "Sweet Georgia Brown" and I don't need to post it because it's already available on internet:
http://contentdm.baylor.edu/cdm4/docume ... 6065&REC=3
But no internet collection of my knowledge includes another Pinkard great song entitled "Sweet Man", so I'd add that piece.
By the way there are many piano rolls of this song, played by several artists including Jelly Roll Morton. You can hear the midi file of the great piano roll, scanned by Robert Perry:
http://www.pianola.co.nz/rollscans/midi ... Morton.mid
I took the score of "Sweet Man" from a folio of songs published by Feist and, although the lyrics were not included, the arrangements are note for note identical to the song versions, sadly: they're May Singhi Breen's typically ugly and simplified arrangements.
I'd add another one from that folio, because it's another great song, although not composed by Pinkard.
The piece is "Red Hot Henry Brown".
Maceo Pinkard was a talented pianist and he provided some good piano accompaniment for singers on records during the 1920s.
I thought you might like a song recorded in 1924, “Hot Tamale Baby” (the song has an interesting similarity with the chorus of "The Kipling Walk" in my opinion), sung by lyricist Andy Razaf with piano accompaniment by Maceo Pinkard.
Razaf’s singing and antics are fun to hear, but the most fascinating thing is Maceo Pinkard’s ragtime piano style! You can hear his solo part at some point of the recording.
Enjoy!!!
Luigi

transcription of the same tume (Red Hot Henry Brown) from an old piano roll

Poinciana, The Breeze and I, The Moon was Yellow, It had to be You,
and My Melancholy Baby, arranged for piano by Bill McGuffie. Enjoy!

George Shearing died earlier this year, aged 91.
This book contains 6 world famous melodies arranged by him, including 'Over The Rainbow'.
The blurb at the front helpfully tells us that he was born in 1920. Wrong - 1919!
(The rules about copyright are so complicated, I've given up trying to understand them.
Hopefully this isn't in copyright, but I'll remove it if it is. The book itself is 57yo.)

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the Shearing & McGuffie folios, both very nice! I wasn't aware of George Shearing's passing. Always loved his "Lullaby of Birdland." The arrangements in the Shearing folio are very tasty harmonically!

All Best,

Frank

After a break for some time, I'm back again with some more syncopations....in no particular ordering....Enjoy!

Thank you Frank!
(I've got some rather nice Rube Bloom arrangements here,
which I'll scan in the next few days.)