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James P. Johnson. Celebrated and influential jazz pianist who was a master of the stride style in the 1920s and '30s. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1910s - 1950s. Born. February 1, 1894 in New Brunswick, NJ. Died.
21 mar 2009 · James P. Johnson, master and virtual inventor of Stride piano. This is a recording from 1944 of his famous Carolina Shout, a work which helped to define what...
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Home of the orchestral music of James P. Johnson. Charleston, Harlem Symphony, Drums, St. Louis Blues, Victory Stride are available to rent. jpjohnsonmusic.com JPJ Rent James P. Johnson Music
1 ago 2001 · James P. Johnson was sometimes called the "perfecter" of stride piano, the difficult piano form where the left hand "strides" up and down between bass notes and chords, while the right hand plays ...
8 gen 2016 · James P. Johnson (front) in the mid- to late 1940s. Many decades after James P. Johnson's death, his influence remains embedded in the playing of most jazz pianists. The early-20th-century ...
James P. Johnson composed two symphonies, two ballets, a string quartet, a concerto for piano and clarinet, and several other works that fell between jazz and classical music. Unfortunately, few of these compositions were ever performed during his lifetime (there was little interest in African-American classical pieces in the ‘30s) and much of the music was permanently lost.
A list of his publications runs to nearly 300 titles. 6 The most celebrated is “Carolina Shout” (c. 1918), a rhythmically advanced, technically challenging rag that became a test-piece for a generation of pianists. 7 Its title, as with “The Charleston,” is a clue to its origins. Johnson was hardly a Gullah.
