This free seminar explores the copyright expiration dates for traditional jazz music. The 95-year expiration sets several prominent early jazz compositions free for public use (after a 20-year delay). What does this mean? Free sheet music. Mathematically speaking, 2019 - 95 = 1923, thus we first explore 1923-composed tunes and then the years 1924-27. What tunes are & will be available for free? It is posited that this timing places trad jazz music at the forefront of unanticipated media attention. These tunes will be played because they are free (and catchy). These are the earliest electrical recordings and hence the first mass produced melodies. What does this mean toward a resurgence (or comeback) in trad jazz music? Participants are encouraged to bring their own sheet music and/or their favorite 1920s-composed tunes to add to a growing list of free public domain tunes. In the end, an information repository (website of .pdf parts) of public domain of trad jazz tunes is presented. Discussion covers how this site can be used in public schools, trad jazz camps, and other tactical areas of diffusion.
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