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Jelly Roll Morton Music Transcriptions
By George Bogatko

"Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton" - The Collected Piano Music.
  Transcribed from rolls and records by James Dapogny
  G. Schirmer, New York/London
  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.
  ISBN 0-87474-351-6
  Copyright 1982 by Smithsonian Institution

I'm not sure this is still published.  Schirmer changed hands a lot in
the late 1980's while trying to stay alive.  They finally ended up being
owned by Hal Leonard, who then proceeded to cut out a lot of stuff.

FYI, they do mostly rentals now.  The showroom is long gone.  A lot of
classic publishers went belly-up around then.  A lot more are going to
go belly-up as their cash cows go into public domain.  Carter,
Schoenberg, Berio ....  They just don't pull in the cash like Ravel,
Debussy and Stravinsky.  As soon as a classic composition goes Public
Domain, either Dover or Kalmus (aka Hal Leonard) brings out a version at
1/10th the cost -- with no rental fees, and no performance license.

George Bogatko



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