Noble Sissle Eubie Blake (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm, mono (monaural) record album, RCA Vintage Series LPV-560, near mint vinyl with orange label in near-mint purple-and-white cardboard jacket. Offers Fanny Brice ("Second Hand Rose," 1921), Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake, Helen Morgan, Cole Porter ("You're the Top" from "Anything Goes," vocal & piano 1934), Nora Bayes, Beatrice Lillie, Eddie Cantor, etc. Early 20th Century vintage Broadway musical comedy. Reduced from $24.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Scattered foxing throughout, minor edgewear, and the exterior rubbed, still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano with chord diagrams for guitar and chord names for ukulele and banjo. Plate imprint, "M.W. & Sons 16482-3." The front cover advertises the film *Jolson Sings Again* starring Larry Parks and Barbara Hale.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The music was first published in 1921 when it was a hit from the musical "Shuffle Along" by the two jazz composers, Sissle and Blake. This Victory Version has another lyric at the inside front page as a Truman celebration. Above the Victory Version is Eubie Blake signed in black ink. The music is three pages with piano and guitar chords. Featured on the front and back covers are b/w photos of Harry Truman. Music measures 9" x 12-1/4." Also found inside the music is a letter copy from Marion Blake promoting the book Reminiscing with Sissle & Blake and a 1976 catalog of Sissle & Blake jazz, ragtime, and vocal recordings. The music is in good condition. It appears that there was a tear at the lower front on Truman's arm but it has been mended or glued nicely. Smudges and light red bleed from the front are at the inside center fold; smudging on the first page of the song at the left side edge. Crease line at the front left bottom corner and light wear at the spine ends of cover. Sheet music.…

4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Rare: OCLC locates only the Yale and the British Library copies. This example bears a gift inscription to Clarence L. Holte (1909-1993), the prominent African-American bibliophile and publisher of "The Basic Afro-American Reprint Library" Pictorial self wrappers with photo of King on upper cover. Very good.…

James Reese Europe (18811919) was a composer and bandleader instrumental in the transition from ragtime to jazz, whose popularity and influence is impossible to overstate. He conducted the Clef Club Orchestra in New York City, which only played music by African-American composers and was the first Black orchestra to perform at Carnegie Hall. Europe's Society Orchestra toured the country with dancers Vernon and Irene Castle, popularizing ragtime dancing. In 1916, Europe enlisted with the 369th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, a primarily Black regiment that became one of the most highly decorated American units in World War I. Europe was a second lieutenant and led the Hellfighters Band, which toured France in 1818 and is credited with bringing jazz to the continent of Europe. James Europe died in Boston in 1919 when a member of his band, taking issue with Europe's criticism, stabbed him in the neck during the intermission of a concert at Mechanics Hall. Offered here is the sheet music for "Good Night Angeline", composed by James Reese Europe and his frequent collaborators, Noble Sissle (18891975) and James Herbert "Eubie" Blake" (18871983). The cover features a photograph of the Hellfighters Band above a portrait of Europe. We find four other copies of "Good Night Angeline", at the Oakland Public Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. Of interest to scholars of African-American musical and military history. Small ownership stamp to top margin, some light wear, overall very good. Sheet music measuring 9 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches.…