December 31, 2007 – 2:58 pm
This post is a recording of Celebrated Shoo Fly Galop by W.L. Hayden, which was published in 1877.
MP3: Lucas Gonze — Celebrated Shoo Fly Galop
Ogg Vorbis: Lucas Gonze — Celebrated Shoo Fly Galop
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December 30, 2007 – 5:22 pm
This post is a recording of the composition Must I, Then? by W.L. Hayden, which was published in 1877.
MP3: Lucas Gonze — Must I, Then?
Ogg Vorbis: Lucas Gonze — Must I, Then?
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December 17, 2007 – 11:01 am
From a paper on the poem “Nothing to Wear”:
Cora Hatch’s public appearance had elements of both Harper’s New Monthly “true woman” and Flora M’Flimsey. In her initial divorce petition, she complained that B. F. Hatch refused to buy her flannel petticoats even though he freely paid large sums for her [...]
December 17, 2007 – 2:20 am
I played a gig at the Ocean Charter School Winter Faire last weekend. This was a school fair in Culver City. The stage was in a big tent. The kids moshed a bit and generally committed to the music. An odd thing was that they formed this [...]
December 9, 2007 – 9:39 pm
There’s now a Myspace page for “Alvin and Lucille”, the jazz act I do with Tequila Mockingbird. We needed an online identity, and especially a place to put our recordings online so we could do bookings a little more easily.
As always the music is under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license to enable remixing and [...]
December 5, 2007 – 10:29 am
MP3: Original Dixieland Jazz Band — St Louis Blues.
Wikipedia entry on ODJB:
Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a New Orleans band that made the first jazz recording in 1917. The group made the first recordings of many jazz standards, probably the most famous being “Tiger Rag.” In late 1917 it changed the name’s spelling to [...]
December 3, 2007 – 5:36 pm
I just found a new source of historical American sheet music — the web site of the University of Colorado at Boulder has a sheet music music collection. It’s not huge overall, but it has a great ragtime section.
