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Editorial Reviews - Jazz Standards by Subgenre From the Publisher Chapters: Bebop Jazz Standards, Bossa Nova Jazz Standards, Cool Jazz Standards, Dixieland Jazz Standards, Hard Bop Jazz Standards, Jazz Fusion Standards, Modal Jazz Standards, Swing Jazz Standards, Tiger Rag, Groovin' High, the Girl From Ipanema, Sing, Sing, Sing, Watermelon Man, Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey, Take the "A" Train, in the Mood, Muskrat Ramble, Tin Roof Blues, Caravan, Li'l Liza Jane, Take Five, One O'clock Jump, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Big Butter and Egg Man, So What, Billie's Bounce, Basin Street Blues, Desafinado, Freddie Freeloader, Blue Bossa, Ornithology, Donna Lee, Ko-Ko, That's a Plenty, High Society, Birdland, Hot House, Blue Rondo à La Turk, Farewell Blues, Riverboat Shuffle, Impressions, Chameleon, Epistrophy, Salt Peanuts, Scrapple From the Apple, C Jam Blues, Cantaloupe Island, Confirmation, Anthropology. Excerpt: "Tiger Rag" is a jazz standard, originally recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. The tune was first recorded on 17 August 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band for Aeolian-Vocalion Records (the band did not use the Jazz spelling until later in 1917). The Aeolian Vocalion sides did not sell well, as they were recorded in a vertical format becoming obsolete at the time which could not be played successfully on most contemporary phonographs. Their second recording of the tune on 25 March 1918 for Victor Records, on the other hand, was a smash national hit. The song was copyrighted and credited to bandmembers Nick La Rocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields, along with Harry Da Costa. "But even before the first recording, several musicians had achieved prominence as leading jazz performers, and several numbers of what was to become the standard repertoire had alre... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3225847 Synopsis Chapters: Bebop Jazz Standards, Bossa Nova Jazz Standards, Cool Jazz St
