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work_xmwqoqkdhvhafjd3iibwtv4hbe	David Sager	Richard M. Sudhalter. Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contributions to Jazz, 1915-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxii, 890 pp	2020	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3954	222	66	Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contributions to Jazz, 1915-1945 is In nearly 900 pages, Sudhalter details and gives an essence of approximately thirty musicians and several sub-genres of early jazz. A recurring annoyance for me in Lost Chords is the frequent comparison of black and white musicians, apparently designed to shed light on For instance, Sudhalter points out white arranger Elmer Schoebel's thoughtful Sudhalter reminds us that in the context of an early 1920s dance band, trumpeters regardless of race were "melodic embellishers, rather than improvisers. of "the black band gives us the 'hot' stuff and the white bands will record In a footnote, Sudhalter makes the case that Bix Beiderbecke's devotion to the repertoire of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, as shown by his that black jazz musicians almost exclusively recorded original material in trumpet player-white, at least-making records at the time" (362).	./cache/work_xmwqoqkdhvhafjd3iibwtv4hbe.pdf	./txt/work_xmwqoqkdhvhafjd3iibwtv4hbe.txt