Eclectible Collectibles

Jazz, Blues, Ragtime, and African American Sheet Music Collection. Bulk 1900s-50s. Archive of approximately 200 pieces of sheet music, majority being pre-war jazz and blues, the subjects, songwriters, and composers including Scott Joplin, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Mamie Smith, Tom Delaney, Ada Brown, Lena Horne, Les Hite, Paul Robeson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Lionel Hampton, Sarah Vaughan, The Ink Spots, Ethel Waters, Aida Ward, Billy Eckstine, D. Long Miller, Arthur Longbrake, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, W.C. Handy, The Platters, Charlie Parker, Lizzie Miles, Clara Smith, Sarah Martin, Louis Jordan, Eartha Kitt, Teddy Hill, Bert Williams, Chuck Berry, Jelly Roll Morton, Irene Taylor, Nellie Lutcher, Joe Alexander, Della Reese, Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke, and others. Other examples feature black military service in World War I, and several feature The Cotton Club and other musical revues and locations. The majority stored in four slipcased folio volumes, others loose. A fine collection. Additional images on request.