Player Piano Rolls

It's great to listen to the old recordings of the jazz great Jelly Roll Morton. There's nothing like that acoustic jazz sound. It's also great to hear the elctronic demos you can find on just about any electonic keyboard. What if you could combine the two? What if you could listen to a self-playing Jelly Roll Morton on an acoustic instrument? It would be as if you had the master sitting in your living room, playing just for you!

If this turns you on, go to New England Music Rolls (URL at the end of this article) and look for 16 new offerings, transcriptions of Jelly Roll Morton's music in piano roll format, including the classics Finger Buster and Tom Cat Blues.

This wonderful site also offers a variety of other piano music from the early 1900's: fox trots, stomps, ballads, one-steps, rags and blues.

The Player Piano and Mechanical Music Exchange has an unusual rolls. Everybody has heard Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, in the Robert Redford/PaulNewman movie The Sting, if nowhere else. This site has a brazillian version of this ragtime classic for sale. The URL is below.

Scott Joplin would like to play for you, in your living room, via your player piano, as well. You can find five Joplin hand-played rolls at Blues Tone Music Rolls. If you've ever want to play these rags, it wouldn't hurt to have them available to listen to whenever you like: Weeping Willow, Something Doing, Ole Miss Rag, Maple Leaf Rag and Magnetic Rag.

New England Music Rolls http://members.aol.com/NEMRoll/home.html

Player Piano and Mechanical Music Exchange http://mmd.foxtail.com/Exchange

Blues Tone Music Rolls http://www.bluesrolls.com/BT_New_Rags.ht...

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