Nightingale wrote:
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> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> >
> > TPA/Bway predates jazz by maybe half a century. See Boardman's big
> > Oxford reference book on Broadway musicals.
> >
>
> Don't know much about Bway, but I thought TPA and Jazz started at about
> the same time - TPA was songwriting & sheet music publishing centred in
> New York from 1890's until 1950's or 1960's, and Jazz has spread all
> over, but was from New Orleans starting about the same time. Jelly Roll
> Morton said he invented it when he was about 12, but there are earlier
> claims as well. When did Broadway start?
Boardman starts around 1860, IIRC.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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