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• Referral from February 6, 2015
  

  Enrico B. asked:

  Can anyone help my friend Andrew Homzy? Hello Enrico, I’m tracing the evolution of three rags which were adopted into the jazz repertoire - Panama, High Society and That’s A Plenty. I have copies of the original published orchestrations for all three. It’s fascinating to see how they were altered - The earliest jazz recordings of Panama & That’s A Plenty were done by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings - 1922 & 1923 - High Society was done by both Oliver Naylor and Jelly Roll Morton in 1924 Do you have - or know where I can find - a recording of That's A Plenty & High Society by Prince's Band? Are there any recordings of Panama made prior to that of the NORK? Prince or Ossman? Are there any other versions of these three pieces recorded before the first jazz interpretations? Rick Benjamin does not have these recordings. I wrote Peter Dilg last month, but never heard from him. Any help or leads will be greatly appreciated. Could my questions go out to your group: Music of 1890-1925 (Pioneer recording artists)? Cheers, Andrew Homzy

  

  Andrew H. replied:

  Many thanks to those who responded. Panama Rag by Cy Seymour is a different piece than Panama by William H. Tyers - the piece which went into the jazz repertoire. Please go to the site by my Swedish friend Ragnor Hellspong - you will be amazed and enchanted - http://www.ragsrag.com/vo/vo.html

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