Charley Straight : Some His Piano Rolls (1917 - 1922).

Описание: Charley Straight, pianist - composer - bandleader, before setting up his own orchestra, in which played Bix Beiderbecke for about 3 months in 1925, made many piano rolls for Imperial and QRS labels, some also playing in duet with, among others, Roy Bargy
( for more : http://bixography.com/charleystraight... ).

The four tunes (4 mp3 files) in this video have been obtained encoding in mp3 files 4 downloaded and decoded MIDI files from scanned Piano Rolls, cut by Straight in 1917-1922 (for download :
http://www.trachtman.org/rollscans/Ro...
http://www.trachtman.org/rollscans/Ro... .

These four are:

Time Roll Tune Title Composer Year

00:18 Imperial-9121 Indiana MacDonald-Hanley 1917
02:34 QRS-100640 There Are Two
Eyes In Dixie Irving Berlin 1917
05:31 Imperial-9867 Mandy Irving Berlin 1919
07:48 Imperial-5012 Virginia Blues Fred Meinken 1922

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The intent of this video is for non profit Historic Preservation, Education.