She’s Funny That Way - jazz improvisation on Tenor Sax

Charles N. Daniels was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, and brought up in Saint Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri. At 18 he won a prize for his composition “Margery“, which was performed by John Philip Sousa’s band. By 1899, Daniels was such a celebrity that when Carl Hoffman published the sheet music for Scott Joplin’s “Original Rags,“ he made a point to credit Daniels as the arranger. It’s not known if Daniels actually arranged the piece or merely transcribed it. In 1904 he started the Daniels and Russel pub
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