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Seek Tune Composers on Early "A" Rolls
By Jere Ryder

We've selected an "A" roll, A-1618, produced by Powell-Malone
Associates [circa 1973], to accompany a small Ragtime pop-up exhibit
soon to open here at the Morris Museum and we need help to more
accurately identify the composers and dates of the last two selections
on that roll:

#9 - "The Trombone Slide" (J.M. Black?), and
#10 - "Hot 'N' Cold".

As noted on the label of A-1618:

"Composite roll from: CRE 151, 219; AUT 807; CRE 2222; AUT 934
and COL 1742".

Attached are the MP3 audio files being played on a Seeburg 'L' from
The Morris Collection. Please give a listen, any help is appreciated.

Jere Ryder
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
https://morrismuseum.org/ 
jryder@morrismuseum.org.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

[ "The Trombone Slide"
[ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/25/05/29/250529_100756_9-The%20Trombone%20Slide,%201898,%20J.M.%20Black.mp3 

[ "Hot 'N' Cold"
[ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/25/05/29/250529_100756_10-Hot%20N%20Cold.mp3 

[ The trad jazz tune "Trombone Slide", credited to New Orleans
[ trombonist Roy Palmer, might be related; listen at
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo5s3g-YrCQ 
[
[ "Hot 'N' Cold" sounds like Chicago pianist James Blythe and it
[ could certainly be his own composition.
[ -- Robbie


(Message sent Thu 29 May 2025, 17:07:56 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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