The Blue Melody. Society’s Latest Syncopated Walk. As First Played by Sophie Tucker’s Five Kings of Syncopation.
Omaha, Nebraska: Maceo Pinkard Music Publisher, 1917. Folio sheet music, 11 x 14 inches, 3 pp. plus cover. An early jazz-era composition by the important African American songwriter Maceo Pinkard (1897–1962), issued from his short-lived Omaha publishing venture during the first years of the national “jass band” craze. The cover.....

