Music Trade Review
Issue: 1921 Vol. 73 N. 2 - Page 42
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
42
'UNJAZZING" THE JAZZ MUSIC
A New Conservative Era Is Announced for This
Popular Syncopated Form of Melody—Signs
Point to Its Settling Down
"Much has been said about jazz," observes
Harry E. Farnham in April's "Melody." "It has
been turned inside out, dissected and examined
by many and the results of these examinations
have been published broadcast for our music-
loving nation to digest. Arguments for and
against it have found their more or less instruc-
tive way across printed pages with one unani-
mous result—that there is such a thing as jazz.
Every article printed reiterates it and makes its
position stronger, and, though its form is
changed, jazz is still with us.
"Dance music played by professional orches-
tras is interpreted by the public at large as
'jazz.' The word jazz has been so dinned into
their ears through voice and press that music
played differently or deviating in any way from
the written score is irrevocably jazz. It is called
jazz for the same reason that any phonograph
is called a Victrola. The public has been so
educated through advertising that to think of a
phonograph the word Victrola at once leaps to
mind. And who can say that jazz has not been
advertised? The 1921 jazz, although it may not
be performed in concert style or played in the
same way dance music has been played in years
gone by, is not jazz as jazz has been formerly
interpreted. There is a line of demarcation be-
tween them. It may be fine and even bend in
places, but none the less the line is there.
"Jazz, as the word first came into being, is a
radical interpretation of music, violating the
canons of musical thought and expression—-and
delighting in it, thriving on it, in fact. That was
a few years ago. To-day radical jazz has run
its barbaric race and its place is' being filled
with, let us say, a conservative jazz—a type
more fitting this period when the nation is slow-
ly settling down from the turmoil of war con-
ditions. This conservative jazz lacks the heavy,
monotonous style of music of twenty years ago,
but links it with the style faintly left by radical
jazz, and the two combined produce a distinctly
new type, full of tunefulness and sprightliness."
Joe Goodwin, the well-known songwriter, has
joined the professional department of Stark &
Cowan.
Now 15c Retail!
(Formerly 10c Music)
JULY 9, 1921
P U N MEMORIAL TO FOSTER
KUHN'S SONG SHOP ENLARGED
Kansas City, Mo., Music Store Now Has a Mail $50,000 to Be Raised for Bowery Breadline in
Order Department
Honor of Author of "Old Kentucky Home"
Eddie Kuhn, the well-known orchestra leader
and proprietor of Eddie Kuhn's Song Shop,
Twelfth and Main streets, Kansas City, Mo.,
recently enlarged his distributing activities by
the addition of a mail order department. Mr.
Kuhn has a list of over 35,000 names which is
constantly being added to. In a recent letter
to The Review he stated that he is very much
gratified with the returns from that direction.
In commenting upon the present retail price
of sheet music, Mr. Kuhn said: "It is very
important that the retail price of sheet music
remain at thirty cents. Any reduction to a
lower or twenty-five-cent figure will only serve
to temporarily please the syndicate stores and
it eventually will cause a reduction to a retail
price of twenty cents and lower."
E. P. LITTLE HONORED
SAN FRANCISCO, CM.., July 2.—E. P. Little,
manager of the sheet music department of
Sherman, Clay & Co., was elected vice-presi-
dent of the Retail Music Dealers' Association
at the last meeting of that organization.
A unique memorial to Stephen Collins Fos-
ter, who wrote "Way Down Upon the Swanee
River," "My Old Kentucky Home" and many
other songs that have been favorites for fifty
years, is being planned for the Bowery, where
he spent the last few years of his life and
whence he was taken to die in Bellevue Hospi-
tal. The memorial will take the form of a
$50,000 fund for the support of the Bowery
breadline.
At a meeting held in the Bowery Mission
recently the plan for the fund was explained
by Mr. Baker, director of the mission. Harold
Vincent Milligan, organist and the biographer
of Foster, played and Olive Nevin, a cousin of
Ethelbert Nevin, the composer, sang some of
Foster's songs to those present at the meeting.
Foster, through the evils of excessive drink-
ing, spent the last few years of his life in a
dingy furnished room on the Bowery. In 1863,
the year before he died, he wrote in that place
forty-eight songs, his greatest production in
any year. This tremendous output was made
necessary through the need for money. Many
of the songs sold for only ten dollars.
Jack Mills, Inc., has secured the publication
A charter of incorporation has been granted
to the Harrison Music Publishing C'orp., New rights for a new song, "I'm the Man That Mr.
York City, with a capital of $25,000. The in- Kipling Wrote About."
corporators are N. H. Harrison, H. Dellon and
W. Hirsh.
A WONDERFUL IRISH MELODY
"When I Dream That
Auld Erin Is Free"
Retail Price, Regular Copies 35c
INTHE AFTERGLOW
By J. Will Callahan and Frank Grey
Programmed by America's Foremost Con-
cert Artists. Featured by
Vaudeville's Greatest Headliners
Played by 15,000 Good Orchestras
Rtfnli
GOTT & HENDERSON
5444 Prairie Avenue, Chicago
fip=
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Once.deu.'nitood la U»
Red
The Ballad Success
blurt of • cilm.no
gj, Jl *
In tbe hub
were your cheek! In tin
if. ter flav,
»n tv
Tit
ifttr flow
[- _J
of Uw tvl - llfil
tim Uw
ri<
There's Sunlight
In Your Eyes
Published by
y Jl |lf
«r- tMftow,
That one
lor
u
mo - ment left ID
*
•
• I
V
V
there'll be al . wiy» tin
my
3
heart..
200 < Profit on
HUNTZINGER & DILWORTH
Copyrighted. 1919. by Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge. Inc.
World Famous
Incorporated
159 West 57th Street
NEW YORK
HINDS, HAYDEN & ELDREDGE, Inc.
MCKINLEY
MUSIC
rile price oi this big-selling edition <>i
teaching and concert music was advanced
one cent to-the dealer on S e p t e m b e r 15th,
I 1 'JO, and tile new retail price is now 15c
per copy.
Send in your stock orders
now and take a d v a n t a g e of our " F R K K
C A T A L O G " offi-r.
50 NEW NUMBERS AND NEW
CATALOGS NOW READY
All of tile best reprints and more big-
selling copyrights than any other low-
priced edition.
Free catalogs with stock orders. We
pay for your advertising. Write for
samples.
McKlnley Music Co.
11 UNION SQUARE
• • • • • • • • • • • » • • • • • • • • •
Remick Song Hits
"ROSE"
"AIN'T WE GOT FUN?"
"NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP"
"NIGHTINGALE"
"DEAREST ONE"
"BEAUTIFUL ANNABELL LEE"
"ALL FOR YOU" (New)
"BROKEN MOON" ( " )
"HAPPINESS"
( " )
"WITHOUT YOU" ( " )
J E R O M E H . R E M I C K & CO.
•f NEW YORK
DETROIT t
• • • » • • • • • • • » » » • • » » • • • • • • • • » • • • » • •
NEW YORK CITY
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
SI! West 43d Street
New York City
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
PubHshers
WALTER JACOBS B^TMASS
"Peter Gink"£&|"Arabella" t i " '
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music
Dealer*
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
PUILISHEKS,
PBINTCMS
AND EHGKAVEBI OF
Main Offices: 40-44 Winchester St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and CMmsa
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
42
'UNJAZZING" THE JAZZ MUSIC
A New Conservative Era Is Announced for This
Popular Syncopated Form of Melody—Signs
Point to Its Settling Down
"Much has been said about jazz," observes
Harry E. Farnham in April's "Melody." "It has
been turned inside out, dissected and examined
by many and the results of these examinations
have been published broadcast for our music-
loving nation to digest. Arguments for and
against it have found their more or less instruc-
tive way across printed pages with one unani-
mous result—that there is such a thing as jazz.
Every article printed reiterates it and makes its
position stronger, and, though its form is
changed, jazz is still with us.
"Dance music played by professional orches-
tras is interpreted by the public at large as
'jazz.' The word jazz has been so dinned into
their ears through voice and press that music
played differently or deviating in any way from
the written score is irrevocably jazz. It is called
jazz for the same reason that any phonograph
is called a Victrola. The public has been so
educated through advertising that to think of a
phonograph the word Victrola at once leaps to
mind. And who can say that jazz has not been
advertised? The 1921 jazz, although it may not
be performed in concert style or played in the
same way dance music has been played in years
gone by, is not jazz as jazz has been formerly
interpreted. There is a line of demarcation be-
tween them. It may be fine and even bend in
places, but none the less the line is there.
"Jazz, as the word first came into being, is a
radical interpretation of music, violating the
canons of musical thought and expression—-and
delighting in it, thriving on it, in fact. That was
a few years ago. To-day radical jazz has run
its barbaric race and its place is' being filled
with, let us say, a conservative jazz—a type
more fitting this period when the nation is slow-
ly settling down from the turmoil of war con-
ditions. This conservative jazz lacks the heavy,
monotonous style of music of twenty years ago,
but links it with the style faintly left by radical
jazz, and the two combined produce a distinctly
new type, full of tunefulness and sprightliness."
Joe Goodwin, the well-known songwriter, has
joined the professional department of Stark &
Cowan.
Now 15c Retail!
(Formerly 10c Music)
JULY 9, 1921
P U N MEMORIAL TO FOSTER
KUHN'S SONG SHOP ENLARGED
Kansas City, Mo., Music Store Now Has a Mail $50,000 to Be Raised for Bowery Breadline in
Order Department
Honor of Author of "Old Kentucky Home"
Eddie Kuhn, the well-known orchestra leader
and proprietor of Eddie Kuhn's Song Shop,
Twelfth and Main streets, Kansas City, Mo.,
recently enlarged his distributing activities by
the addition of a mail order department. Mr.
Kuhn has a list of over 35,000 names which is
constantly being added to. In a recent letter
to The Review he stated that he is very much
gratified with the returns from that direction.
In commenting upon the present retail price
of sheet music, Mr. Kuhn said: "It is very
important that the retail price of sheet music
remain at thirty cents. Any reduction to a
lower or twenty-five-cent figure will only serve
to temporarily please the syndicate stores and
it eventually will cause a reduction to a retail
price of twenty cents and lower."
E. P. LITTLE HONORED
SAN FRANCISCO, CM.., July 2.—E. P. Little,
manager of the sheet music department of
Sherman, Clay & Co., was elected vice-presi-
dent of the Retail Music Dealers' Association
at the last meeting of that organization.
A unique memorial to Stephen Collins Fos-
ter, who wrote "Way Down Upon the Swanee
River," "My Old Kentucky Home" and many
other songs that have been favorites for fifty
years, is being planned for the Bowery, where
he spent the last few years of his life and
whence he was taken to die in Bellevue Hospi-
tal. The memorial will take the form of a
$50,000 fund for the support of the Bowery
breadline.
At a meeting held in the Bowery Mission
recently the plan for the fund was explained
by Mr. Baker, director of the mission. Harold
Vincent Milligan, organist and the biographer
of Foster, played and Olive Nevin, a cousin of
Ethelbert Nevin, the composer, sang some of
Foster's songs to those present at the meeting.
Foster, through the evils of excessive drink-
ing, spent the last few years of his life in a
dingy furnished room on the Bowery. In 1863,
the year before he died, he wrote in that place
forty-eight songs, his greatest production in
any year. This tremendous output was made
necessary through the need for money. Many
of the songs sold for only ten dollars.
Jack Mills, Inc., has secured the publication
A charter of incorporation has been granted
to the Harrison Music Publishing C'orp., New rights for a new song, "I'm the Man That Mr.
York City, with a capital of $25,000. The in- Kipling Wrote About."
corporators are N. H. Harrison, H. Dellon and
W. Hirsh.
A WONDERFUL IRISH MELODY
"When I Dream That
Auld Erin Is Free"
Retail Price, Regular Copies 35c
INTHE AFTERGLOW
By J. Will Callahan and Frank Grey
Programmed by America's Foremost Con-
cert Artists. Featured by
Vaudeville's Greatest Headliners
Played by 15,000 Good Orchestras
Rtfnli
GOTT & HENDERSON
5444 Prairie Avenue, Chicago
fip=
I V V—{ \ J -i-* [Iff p ('
Once.deu.'nitood la U»
Red
The Ballad Success
blurt of • cilm.no
gj, Jl *
In tbe hub
were your cheek! In tin
if. ter flav,
»n tv
Tit
ifttr flow
[- _J
of Uw tvl - llfil
tim Uw
ri<
There's Sunlight
In Your Eyes
Published by
y Jl |lf
«r- tMftow,
That one
lor
u
mo - ment left ID
*
•
• I
V
V
there'll be al . wiy» tin
my
3
heart..
200 < Profit on
HUNTZINGER & DILWORTH
Copyrighted. 1919. by Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge. Inc.
World Famous
Incorporated
159 West 57th Street
NEW YORK
HINDS, HAYDEN & ELDREDGE, Inc.
MCKINLEY
MUSIC
rile price oi this big-selling edition <>i
teaching and concert music was advanced
one cent to-the dealer on S e p t e m b e r 15th,
I 1 'JO, and tile new retail price is now 15c
per copy.
Send in your stock orders
now and take a d v a n t a g e of our " F R K K
C A T A L O G " offi-r.
50 NEW NUMBERS AND NEW
CATALOGS NOW READY
All of tile best reprints and more big-
selling copyrights than any other low-
priced edition.
Free catalogs with stock orders. We
pay for your advertising. Write for
samples.
McKlnley Music Co.
11 UNION SQUARE
• • • • • • • • • • • » • • • • • • • • •
Remick Song Hits
"ROSE"
"AIN'T WE GOT FUN?"
"NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP"
"NIGHTINGALE"
"DEAREST ONE"
"BEAUTIFUL ANNABELL LEE"
"ALL FOR YOU" (New)
"BROKEN MOON" ( " )
"HAPPINESS"
( " )
"WITHOUT YOU" ( " )
J E R O M E H . R E M I C K & CO.
•f NEW YORK
DETROIT t
• • • » • • • • • • • » » » • • » » • • • • • • • • » • • • » • •
NEW YORK CITY
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF
TITLE FOR ESTIMATE
SI! West 43d Street
New York City
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
PubHshers
WALTER JACOBS B^TMASS
"Peter Gink"£&|"Arabella" t i " '
Oliver Ditson Company
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music
Dealer*
White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
PUILISHEKS,
PBINTCMS
AND EHGKAVEBI OF
Main Offices: 40-44 Winchester St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and CMmsa
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