Papers regarding copyright ownership of Jelly Roll Morton's songs, 1949-1969

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Papers regarding copyright ownership of Jelly Roll Morton's songs, 1949-1969

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Correspondence and other papers of jazz concert promoter Harrison Smith, his lawyer, Howard Fischer, and music publishers. Harrison Smith claimed to own copyright to several of American jazz composer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton’s songs. The papers deal with Smith’s claims of copyright infringement.

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Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library

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Harrison Smith was a jazz concert promoter and booking agent. Jelly Roll Morton hired Smith as a New York partner in a booking agency whose main office was to be in Los Angeles. Accordingly, they shared an office in New York for a brief period during the late 1920s or early 1930s. The partnership was apparently shortlived but was the basis upon which Smith’s claims of copyright ownership of 20-30 Morton’s compositions were founded. Smith later contested Morton’s will over royalties compositions ...

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