The talking machine world (July-Dec 1927)

120 (World of Music) Jascha Gurewich With Sam Fox Publishing Go. Saxophone Virtuoso Who Has Appeared in Recitals in New York and Boston Writing Varied Series of Works for Saxophone The Talking Machine World, New York, December, 1927 An important addition to the long list of artists writing for the Sam Fox Publishing Co. was recently announced in the person of Jascha Gurewich Jascha Gurewich, saxophone virtuoso, who holds the distinction of being the first and only artist in the history of the saxophone to give legitimate concerts in Carnegie and Aeolian Halls, New York, and Symphony Hall, Boston. John Philip Sousa, in commenting on Mr. Gurewich's playing, said: "I have heard all the finest saxophone players of the past thirty years and the majority of them have played for me; but I have never heard anyone to equal you." Following his concert at Aeolian Hall, the music reviewer of the New York World wrote: "Mr. Gurewich plays the saxophone with all the fervor and all the feeling, all the color and the romance, all the virtuosity, all the dramatic power of a great violinist caressing his tenderest Stradivarius." Mr. Gurewich's first contributions to the Sam Fox catalog include four original saxophone solos: "Jazzima," "Juliana," "Twilight Romance" and "Valse Petite"; ten transcriptions of popular numbers in the Fox catalog, among them "Japanese Sunset," "Polly," "Sparklets," "Eleanor" and "Simplicity," and a book of studies for the saxophone entitled "Staccatos and Legatos." This last-named work fills, in the opinion of the author, a long-felt want for the thousands of saxophonists who have long required a book of practical application. Mr. Gurewich is now preparing for early release a sonata in four movements for the saxophone. This is the first time that any such composition has been prepared for this instrument. The movements are: "Allegro non tropo," "Romanca," "Czero" and "Rondo." De Sylva, Brown, Henderson Issue Dance Foho for Piano A dance folio for piano has just been released by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, Inc., containing thirty-one f)opular dance hits arranged in simplified form. The folio is an elaborate edition, with a striking cover in five colors showing facsimiles of five numbers of current hits. Among the numbers included in the folio are thirty-one typical De Sylva, Brown, Henderson successes. New Feist Dance Foho Is Introduced to Music Trade New Dance Folio No. lA Contains Thirty Song Hits as Piano Solos With Ukulele Arrangements— Special Introductory Price Offer Leo Feist, Inc., New York, recently announced to the trade a new folio of the latest song hits arranged as fox-trots, waltzes, etc. The folio, which is titled "Feist Dance Folio No. lA," is the first of a new series and includes thirty selections, all of which have proved popular with the dance-loving public. Among the selections included are "At Sundown," "Honolulu Moon," "Just Once Again," "Sing Me a Baby Song," "You Don't Like It— Not Much," "Just the Same," "In a Little Spanish Town," "Sam, the Old Accordion Man," "If You See Sally" and twenty-one others of similar merit. The folio lists at fifty cents in the United States, sixty cents elsewhere, and is being sold to dealers at the special introductory price of twenty-five cents. Irving Berlin, Inc., Has Three New Potential Hits Irving Berlin, Inc., reports that at no time during its history has it had as many great songs and as strong a catalog as at the present time. In addition to the catalog it now enjoys, the new songs that are about to be released show every indication of stepping into the hit class overnight. Among the new songs about to be released is a novelty, "It's in the Bag," an unusual number inasmuch as it has a great lyric and is in addition a snappy dance tune. WINGS 'RLY FOX-TROT VLPHiON Of THE OUTSTAHDIN& "THEf CESS OF' THE DAY — hij BALLAf?D MAODONAl ^HUMORESKIMO 1^7 -45 ORIGINAL AUO CATCHY AS ITS NAME A SURE FIRE W/NNER —/ A NO\/ELTY FOX TfiOT SOA/O 6y PETE WENOLING ~~ HENRI BERC ^Sl Sr ALFRED B/ZYAN f STARLIGHT an" TULIPS i A REFRESHim BIT OF MELODY THAT IS IRPESISTrBLE — A SWEET TUNE WITH A MELODY THAT HAUNTS YOU A MELODY I^OX TKOT SONG b^i ALFRED BRYAN S PETE WENDLINO BLUEBERRY LANE A PEPPY POPULAR TUNE THAT JUST SWINGS ALONG TO INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS FOX TROT 50NO bi, ALFRED BRYAN S HERMAN PAtLEY FASCINATIN' VAMP I I I I