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John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Solo Jazz Hard Bop Piano Synthesia)
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Info on Robert Hampton:
Robert Hampton was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama to William Hampton and Annie Maddox. He was known to have spent most of the ragtime era and many years after in St. Louis, Missouri after many years in his youth in the Little Rock, Arkansas area. The 1900 census listed him as living in Little Rock, Arkansas, with his widowed mother Annie and his older brother William "Willie" (11/1886), who had been born in Georgia.
The birth date on the 1900 enumeration is in question at variance with his official date listed on his WWI draft card, showing September of 1890 in the census and July 25, 1891 for the draft. For the record, his California death certificate splits the difference,cataract rag cover showing a birth date of August 10, 1890, so that will be accepted as potentially the most accurate for this essay. Hampton's tombstone shows an August 10, 1891 date. It is possible that he simply was not entirely sure of his actual birth date.
Hampton was next shown living in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910 with his mother and Willie, now listed as a musician at 19 years old. His reputation would grow quickly over the next few years, and Robert was known by some to be a masterful performer. He was also an influence to many of the St. Louis school of ragtime artists, including Artie Matthews, Charlie Thompson and Charles Hubbard.
Even Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton potentially recalled Hampton (he referred to a Bob Hamilton, but no musician Bob Hamilton was known in St. Louis) as an inspiration to him, and perhaps even a bit of a threat within Morton's subtext according to some stories.
(Source: ragpiano.com/comps/rhampton.shtml)
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/293/293-jelly-roll-morton-thirty-fifth-street-blues-g-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/el6pv7aAMiA
Wikipedia:
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition. Morton also wrote the standards "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century.
Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation". Alan Lomax, who recorded extensive biographical interviews of Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938, did not agree that Morton was an egotist:
In being called a supreme egotist, Jelly Roll was often a victim of loose and lurid reporting. If we read the words that he himself wrote, we learn that he almost had an inferiority complex and said that he created his own style of jazz piano because "All my fellow musicians were much faster in manipulations, I thought than I, and I did not feel as though I was in their class." So he used a slower tempo to permit flexibility through the use of more notes, a pinch of Spanish to give a number of right seasoning, the avoidance of playing triple forte continuously, and many other points". --Quoted in John Szwed, Dr Jazz.
This video quote:
"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings." - Jelly Roll Morton
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/413/413-art-tatum-song-of-the-vagabonds-eb-min-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/AexlMy49iLQ
Info on Art Tatum:
Arthur Tatum, Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio, on October 13, 1909. Art was severely visually impaired from birth; however, his parents were both accomplished amateur musicians and he was picking out tunes on his mother’s piano from the age of three. He learned arrangements from piano rolls, but his uncanny sense of intonation, his physical dexterity at the keyboard, and above all his high intelligence contributed to his increasingly astonishing piano technique.
In Toledo, he received tutelage from Overton G. Rainey, who, like Tatum, was blind but insisted that Art learn the classics. Rainey discouraged improvisation; Art could not but improvise. All the music that Art heard lodged in his brilliant musical brain and emerged, transformed, through his gifted hands. He had a few favorite sources of inspiration from the mid-1920s on: Thomas “Fats” Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, and popular pianist Lee Sims (1898-1966), whose complex harmonies (reminiscent of Debussy) and changes of tempo within a performance have clear echoes within Tatum’s own mature piano style.
Art performed on local Toledo radio as early as age 17. He was discovered by vocalist Adelaide Hall in 1932. Hall hired Tatum, brought him to New York, and made records with him that year. A solo recorded during those sessions (“Tiger Rag”) exists as a test-pressing—his technique, at age 22, is fully realized. He continued to work around New York and later elsewhere, flabbergasting his own pianistic idols with his towering command of the keyboard.
It doesn’t do to attempt to describe Art Tatum’s playing. One must hear him. Testimonials from other pianists abound. The most famous story is of Fats Waller relinquishing the piano bench to Tatum when he appeared in the club where Waller was performing, stating “I only play the piano, but tonight God is in the house.” Oscar Peterson, perhaps Tatum’s most Tatumesque follower, also considered him a “musical God,” and said, “If you speak of pianists, the most complete pianist that we have known and possibly will know is Art Tatum.”
Art Tatum never failed to dazzle listeners with his Olympian musical prowess and limitless melodic and harmonic invention. He died, far too young, on November 5, 1956.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/art-tatum)
This video quote:
"You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!" - Art Tatum
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Transcribed by: @RagtimeDorianHenry
Original recording: youtube.com/watch?v=pH0rlFUWwDw
Most people know this tune from the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants.
The exact version from Spongebob is played by Roy Smeck (a.k.a. Wizard of the Strings) and can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=pH0rlFUWwDw
Wikipedia:
Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule. He embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage.
Władziu Valentino Liberace (known as Lee to his friends and Walter to family)[4] was born in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 16, 1919. His father, Salvatore ("Sam") Liberace (1885–1977), was an immigrant from Formia in central Italy. His mother, Frances Zuchowski (1892–1980), was born in Menasha, Wisconsin of Polish descent. Liberace had an identical twin who died at birth. He had three surviving siblings: a brother George (who was a violinist), a sister Angelina, and younger brother Rudy (Rudolph Valentino Liberace, named after the actor due to his mother's interest in show business).
This video quote:
"What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank." - Liberace
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Wikipedia:
Charles Leslie Johnson was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived his entire life in those two cities. He published over 300 songs in his life, nearly 40 of them ragtime compositions such as "Doc Brown’s Cakewalk", "Dill Pickles", "Apple Jack (Some Rag)", and "Snookums Rag". His best selling piece, a sentimental ballad called "Sweet and Low", sold over a million copies.
Experts believe that had Johnson lived and worked in New York, he would be included alongside Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb as one of the greatest ragtime composers. He wrote more than the other three combined and exemplified a greater range of talent, composing waltzes, tangos, cakewalks, marches, novelty pieces, and other types of music popular at that time.
Johnson was born in the Armourdale district of Kansas City, Kansas to James R. and Helen F. Johnson. Clearly a prodigy, he was playing a neighbor’s piano by age six and began studying classical piano, harmony, and music theory a few years later. Although he had classical training, he always preferred popular music of the day.
His musical ability led him to proficiency on other instruments as well: guitar, violin, banjo, and mandolin. As a young man Johnson became involved in the music scene of Kansas City by participating in several local groups. In this environment he wrote his first compositions.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/409/409-dick-hyman-barrel-of-keys-bb-min-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/rXvkc6BIfwE
Wikipedia:
Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017. His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.
As a pianist, Hyman has been praised for his versatility. DownBeat magazine characterized him as "a pianist of longstanding grace and bountiful talent, with an ability to adapt to nearly any historical style, from stride to bop to modernist sound-painting."
Hyman was born in New York City on March 8, 1927 to Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven, and grew up in suburban Mount Vernon, New York. His older brother, Arthur, owned a jazz record collection and introduced him to the music of Bix Beiderbecke and Art Tatum.
Hyman was trained classically by his mother's brother, the concert pianist Anton Rovinsky, who premiered The Celestial Railroad by Charles Ives in 1928.[8] Hyman said of Rovinsky: "He was my most important teacher. I learned touch from him and a certain amount of repertoire, especially Beethoven. On my own I pursued Chopin. I loved his ability to take a melody and embellish it in different arbitrary ways, which is exactly what we do in jazz. Chopin would have been a terrific jazz pianist! His waltzes are in my improvising to this day."
Hyman enlisted in the U.S. Army in June 1945, and was transferred to the U.S. Navy band department. “Once I got into the band department, I was working with much more experienced musicians than I was used to," Hyman once stated. "I’d played in a couple of kid bands in New York, playing dances, but the Navy meant business — I had to show up, read music, and be with a bunch of better players than I had run into." After leaving the Navy he attended Columbia College. While there, Hyman won a piano competition, for which the prize was 12 free lessons with swing-era pianist Teddy Wilson Hyman has said that he "fell in love with jazz" during this period.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/272/272-jelly-roll-morton-grandpa-s-spells-c-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/VMejgLFBb28
Wikipedia:
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition. Morton also wrote the standards "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century.
Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation". Alan Lomax, who recorded extensive biographical interviews of Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938, did not agree that Morton was an egotist:
In being called a supreme egotist, Jelly Roll was often a victim of loose and lurid reporting. If we read the words that he himself wrote, we learn that he almost had an inferiority complex and said that he created his own style of jazz piano because "All my fellow musicians were much faster in manipulations, I thought than I, and I did not feel as though I was in their class." So he used a slower tempo to permit flexibility through the use of more notes, a pinch of Spanish to give a number of right seasoning, the avoidance of playing triple forte continuously, and many other points". --Quoted in John Szwed, Dr Jazz.
This video quote:
"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings." - Jelly Roll Morton
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/205/205-duke-ellington-dancers-in-love-f-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/0hpEEF9L2e0
Wikipedia:
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.
Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Although widely considered a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music.
Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered among the best players in the idiom. Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards.
He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. In the early 1940s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces. Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major revival and embarked on world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in and scored several films, and composed a handful of stage musicals.
Ellington was noted for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and for his eloquence and charisma. His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
This video quote:
"You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad." - Duke Ellington
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/115/115-willie-the-lion-smith-here-come-the-band-a-min-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/Oq9NgoqfJMg
Info about Willie "The Lion" Smith:
Willie “The Lion” Smith (November 23, 1893 – April 18, 1973) was one of the fathers of the stride piano style. During the 1920s he was a sort of underground figure, who gained a reputation as a hot piano player by providing the music for rent parties in the private homes and small clubs of Harlem. He recorded rarely during the 1920s, but was the first musical director of Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds and is the pianist on “Crazy Blues“, the first Blues record released in 1920.
Smith was a major influence on Duke Ellington who later went on to write the songs “Portrait of the Lion” and “Second Portrait of the Lion” in honor of him. Smith didn’t make any recordings under his own name until the mid-1930s, but played on several of Perry Bradford’s sessions like Georgia Strutters, The Gulf Coast Seven and The Blue Rhythm Orchestra. Throughout his career he led few bands, preferring the life of a solo performer, but he remained very active in music until his death in 1973.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/willie-the-lion-smith-1897-1973)
This video quote:
"Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart." - Willie "The Lion" Smith
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Link to the full video: instagram.com/p/C6JgKRSidct
Original recording: youtube.com/watch?v=5m-IJavHJcU&t=0s
Wikipedia:
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso." He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd. His live album, Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold over a million copies by 1958 and Scott Yanow's opinion is: "this is the album that made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."
Garner was born with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, the youngest of six children in an African-American family. He attended George Westinghouse High School (as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal). Interviews with his family and music teachers (and with other musicians), plus a detailed family tree are given in Erroll Garner: The Most Happy Piano by James M Doran.
Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by Miss Bowman. From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, just like Miss Bowman, his eldest sister Martha said. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life, never learning to read music. At age seven, he began appearing on the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By age 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. In 1937 he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown.
He played locally in the shadow of his older pianist brother Linton Garner.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/418/418-art-tatum-humoresque-db-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/LbYG5_jhOQY
Info on Art Tatum:
Arthur Tatum, Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio, on October 13, 1909. Art was severely visually impaired from birth; however, his parents were both accomplished amateur musicians and he was picking out tunes on his mother’s piano from the age of three. He learned arrangements from piano rolls, but his uncanny sense of intonation, his physical dexterity at the keyboard, and above all his high intelligence contributed to his increasingly astonishing piano technique.
In Toledo, he received tutelage from Overton G. Rainey, who, like Tatum, was blind but insisted that Art learn the classics. Rainey discouraged improvisation; Art could not but improvise. All the music that Art heard lodged in his brilliant musical brain and emerged, transformed, through his gifted hands. He had a few favorite sources of inspiration from the mid-1920s on: Thomas “Fats” Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, and popular pianist Lee Sims (1898-1966), whose complex harmonies (reminiscent of Debussy) and changes of tempo within a performance have clear echoes within Tatum’s own mature piano style.
Art performed on local Toledo radio as early as age 17. He was discovered by vocalist Adelaide Hall in 1932. Hall hired Tatum, brought him to New York, and made records with him that year. A solo recorded during those sessions (“Tiger Rag”) exists as a test-pressing—his technique, at age 22, is fully realized. He continued to work around New York and later elsewhere, flabbergasting his own pianistic idols with his towering command of the keyboard.
It doesn’t do to attempt to describe Art Tatum’s playing. One must hear him. Testimonials from other pianists abound. The most famous story is of Fats Waller relinquishing the piano bench to Tatum when he appeared in the club where Waller was performing, stating “I only play the piano, but tonight God is in the house.” Oscar Peterson, perhaps Tatum’s most Tatumesque follower, also considered him a “musical God,” and said, “If you speak of pianists, the most complete pianist that we have known and possibly will know is Art Tatum.”
Art Tatum never failed to dazzle listeners with his Olympian musical prowess and limitless melodic and harmonic invention. He died, far too young, on November 5, 1956.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/art-tatum)
This video quote:
"Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left." - Art Tatum
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/411/411-art-tatum-the-shout-gb-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/I6XKz4sxizo
Info on Art Tatum:
Arthur Tatum, Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio, on October 13, 1909. Art was severely visually impaired from birth; however, his parents were both accomplished amateur musicians and he was picking out tunes on his mother’s piano from the age of three. He learned arrangements from piano rolls, but his uncanny sense of intonation, his physical dexterity at the keyboard, and above all his high intelligence contributed to his increasingly astonishing piano technique.
In Toledo, he received tutelage from Overton G. Rainey, who, like Tatum, was blind but insisted that Art learn the classics. Rainey discouraged improvisation; Art could not but improvise. All the music that Art heard lodged in his brilliant musical brain and emerged, transformed, through his gifted hands. He had a few favorite sources of inspiration from the mid-1920s on: Thomas “Fats” Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, and popular pianist Lee Sims (1898-1966), whose complex harmonies (reminiscent of Debussy) and changes of tempo within a performance have clear echoes within Tatum’s own mature piano style.
Art performed on local Toledo radio as early as age 17. He was discovered by vocalist Adelaide Hall in 1932. Hall hired Tatum, brought him to New York, and made records with him that year. A solo recorded during those sessions (“Tiger Rag”) exists as a test-pressing—his technique, at age 22, is fully realized. He continued to work around New York and later elsewhere, flabbergasting his own pianistic idols with his towering command of the keyboard.
It doesn’t do to attempt to describe Art Tatum’s playing. One must hear him. Testimonials from other pianists abound. The most famous story is of Fats Waller relinquishing the piano bench to Tatum when he appeared in the club where Waller was performing, stating “I only play the piano, but tonight God is in the house.” Oscar Peterson, perhaps Tatum’s most Tatumesque follower, also considered him a “musical God,” and said, “If you speak of pianists, the most complete pianist that we have known and possibly will know is Art Tatum.”
Art Tatum never failed to dazzle listeners with his Olympian musical prowess and limitless melodic and harmonic invention. He died, far too young, on November 5, 1956.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/art-tatum)
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/226/226-erroll-garner-play-piano-play-d-min-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/VyDFLF4Ypts
Wikipedia:
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso." He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd. His live album, Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold over a million copies by 1958 and Scott Yanow's opinion is: "this is the album that made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."
Garner was born with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, the youngest of six children in an African-American family. He attended George Westinghouse High School (as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal). Interviews with his family and music teachers (and with other musicians), plus a detailed family tree are given in Erroll Garner: The Most Happy Piano by James M Doran.
Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by Miss Bowman. From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, just like Miss Bowman, his eldest sister Martha said. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life, never learning to read music. At age seven, he began appearing on the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By age 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. In 1937 he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown.
He played locally in the shadow of his older pianist brother Linton Garner.
This video quote:
"Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new." - Erroll Garner
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/340/340-earl-hines-fifty-seven-varieties-c-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/RnBSRAaEMHE
Info about Earl Hines:
Earl “Fatha” Hines was one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. Frequently he would play ringing octaves with his right hand (called “trumpet style piano”) that allowed him to be heard over the loudest ensembles. Dubbed by some as “the first modern jazz pianist,” Hines could play stride piano with the best, keeping time with his left hand by jumping between bass notes and chords, but he also loved to challenge himself by taking death-defying breaks.
Led by what could be considered the trickiest left hand in jazz, he often defied time and played wild passages with his two hands before somehow returning without missing a beat. This sounded very modern in 1928 and was still a bit futuristic in 1978. Among his many admirers were Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, and Art Tatum.
Earl Hines had a long and episodic career. He was born December 28, 1903 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, which is close to Pittsburgh. Since his father played cornet with a local brass band, that became Hines’ first instrument before he switched his focus to the piano when he was nine. He took some classical piano lessons and played organ in his Baptist church while largely creating his own style.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/profiles-in-jazz-earl-fatha-hines)
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"I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them." - Earl Hines
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Transcribed by @RagtimeDorianHenry
Original recording & sheet music: youtu.be/3MJeFz8dwZk
Wikipedia on Ernesto:
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (March 20, 1863 – February 1, 1934) was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative Maxixe and Choro compositions. Influenced by a diverse set of rhythms like the polka, the habanera, and the lundu, he combined this elements with his classical formation to create compositions that he called “Brazilian tangos". These would be the precursors for what is known today as Choro. His piano repertoire is now part of the teaching programs of both classical and popular styles, as Nazareth once served at the boundary between these two worlds.
Ernesto Nazareth was born in Rio de Janeiro, one of five children. His mother, Carolina da Cunha gave him his first piano lessons. At the age of ten, after his mother's death, he continued his piano studies with Eduardo Madeira and Charles Lucien Lambert. Strongly influenced by Chopin, Nazareth published his first composition Você Bem Sabe (which means "You know it well") in 1877, at age 14. At that time, he had begun his professional career playing in cafes, balls, society parties and in the waiting rooms of movie theaters. In 1893, Casa Vieira Machado published his famous tango Brejeiro.
Wikipedia on Brazilian Choro music:
Choro, also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Despite its name, the music often has a fast and happy rhythm. It is characterized by virtuosity, improvisation and subtle modulations, and is full of syncopation and counterpoint. Choro is considered the first characteristically Brazilian genre of urban popular music. The serenaders who play choros are known as chorões.
Originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings). Other instruments commonly played in choro are the mandolin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. These melody instruments are backed by a rhythm section composed of 6-string guitar, 7-string guitar (playing bass lines) and light percussion, such as a pandeiro. The cavaquinho appears sometimes as a melody instrument, other times as part of the rhythm.
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Info on Frank Wooster:
Frank Wooster came to notoriety through a single rag he published with co-composer Ethyl B. Smith, but until this biography was researched, both of them were somewhat of a mystery to the ragtime community, unusual given the popularity of their Black Cat Rag.
While the information here is limited, it does tell a story of typical heartbreak met by some who tried very hard to get into the growing music industry, but missed that bubble of success for reasons sometimes difficult to discern, although not for a lack of effort.
Frank was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the only child of Henry Wooster and Josephine Bartholomew. Virtually nothing is known about his musical training or schooling. When Frank was eight years old, his father, a United States Marine, died on December 11, 1893 in the St. Louis U.S. Marine hospital of unspecified causes, leaving Josephine a widow.
For the 1900 census, she and Frank were shown living with her parents, former New York residents Vincent and Mary Bartholomew.the brownie rag cover Vincent was fairly well off and retired, turning 81 that year.
The only one in the household with a job was Frank, who was an accounts collector for a local hat store. At some point over the next five years, Frank got the idea in his head that he wanted to go into the music business for himself, and endeavored to do so.
(Source: ragpiano.com/comps/fwooster.shtml)
Info on Ethyl B. Smith:
Less is not always more. In the case of Ethyl B. Smith there was supposed to have been more, but we simply can't confirm that, having to do with less instead. While not a complete mystery, there are still many unanswered questions about this somewhat talented lady composer and piano instructor.
Attempts to pin her down in city directories and census records proved daunting, considering her common last name. However, persistence won out and now at least something more is known of her. It should be noted that there was an Ethel E. Smith in Saint Louis, Missouri, that worked as a music teacher for many years in the early 1900s, but she was not the person discussed here — just a confusing coincidence.
(Source: ragpiano.com/comps/ebsmith.shtml)
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Wikipedia on Sadie:
Sadie G. Koninsky (August 1879 – January 2, 1952) was an American composer, music publisher, and music teacher who lived most of her life in Troy, New York. A prolific composer, she is thought to have authored over 300 pieces of music, including waltzes and marches. "Eli Green's Cakewalk", which became a popular hit when it appeared in 1898, was also the first cakewalk published by a woman. Some of her work was published under her male pseudonym, Jerome Hartman.
Sadie was the youngest of the five children born to Harris and Mary Koninsky of Troy, New York. Both parents were of European extraction. As a child, she received classical training in violin.
Her first published compositions, "The Belles of Andalusia" (a waltz) and "The Minstrel King" (a march) appeared in 1894 and 1895, respectively. In 1896, she sold "Eli Green's Cake Walk" to Joseph W. Stern, a music publisher in New York City, who published it (under her legal name) with lyrics added by a staff writer. After studying piano with Harriet Brower, she took a job at Stern's company as an arranger.
Soon afterward, Sadie and her brother Maurice went into the music business. By 1899, the family business, then known as "Edw. M. Koninsky & Brothers", was publishing music, including Sadie's sequel titled "Phoebe Thompson's Cake Walk". She became the main arranger and composer at Koninsky Music. During this time, her marches appeared under the name of "Jerome Hartman".
During the 1920s, Sadie launched a publishing house of her own (Goodwyn Music Publishers) and also taught music and violin. She was still teaching in 1947. She died on January 2, 1952, and was buried at B'rith Sholom Cemetery in Troy.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
Check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/85/85-james-p-johnson-harlem-choc-late-babies-on-parade-bb-maj-transcription-pdf
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Original recording: youtu.be/9AendAUqTpA
James Price Johnson was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student.
Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist."
Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard.
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Original recording: youtube.com/watch?v=UXyTOypYDAM
Wikipedia:
Charles Luckyth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts, was an American composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles.
Luckey Roberts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was playing piano and acting professionally with traveling Negro minstrel shows in his childhood. He settled in New York City about 1910 and became one of the leading pianists in Harlem, and started publishing some of his original rags.
Roberts toured France and the UK with James Reese Europe during World War I, then returned to New York where he wrote music for various shows and recorded piano rolls.
With James P. Johnson, Roberts developed the stride piano style of playing about 1919.
Roberts' reach on the keyboard was unusually large (he could reach a fourteenth), leading to a rumor that he had the webbing between his fingers surgically cut, which those who knew him and saw him play live denounce as false; Roberts simply had naturally large hands with wide finger spread.
In the 1920s, Roberts teamed up with lyricist Alex C. Rogers and co-wrote three Broadway musicals, Go-Go (1923), Sharlee (1923) and My Magnolia (1926), the later which starred Adelaide Hall, a major black revue star.
Luckey Roberts noted compositions include "Junk Man Rag", "Moonlight Cocktail", "Pork and Beans", and "Railroad Blues". "Moonlight Cocktail" was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and was the best selling record in the United States for ten weeks in 1942.
An astute businessman, Roberts became a millionaire twice through real estate dealings. He died in New York City.
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Transcribed by: @RagtimeDorianHenry
Original recording & sheet music: youtu.be/iNNCI42INyY
Wikipedia on Ernesto:
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (March 20, 1863 – February 1, 1934) was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative Maxixe and Choro compositions. Influenced by a diverse set of rhythms like the polka, the habanera, and the lundu, he combined this elements with his classical formation to create compositions that he called “Brazilian tangos". These would be the precursors for what is known today as Choro. His piano repertoire is now part of the teaching programs of both classical and popular styles, as Nazareth once served at the boundary between these two worlds.
Ernesto Nazareth was born in Rio de Janeiro, one of five children. His mother, Carolina da Cunha gave him his first piano lessons. At the age of ten, after his mother's death, he continued his piano studies with Eduardo Madeira and Charles Lucien Lambert. Strongly influenced by Chopin, Nazareth published his first composition Você Bem Sabe (which means "You know it well") in 1877, at age 14. At that time, he had begun his professional career playing in cafes, balls, society parties and in the waiting rooms of movie theaters. In 1893, Casa Vieira Machado published his famous tango Brejeiro.
Wikipedia on Brazilian Choro music:
Choro, also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Despite its name, the music often has a fast and happy rhythm. It is characterized by virtuosity, improvisation and subtle modulations, and is full of syncopation and counterpoint. Choro is considered the first characteristically Brazilian genre of urban popular music. The serenaders who play choros are known as chorões.
Originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings). Other instruments commonly played in choro are the mandolin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. These melody instruments are backed by a rhythm section composed of 6-string guitar, 7-string guitar (playing bass lines) and light percussion, such as a pandeiro. The cavaquinho appears sometimes as a melody instrument, other times as part of the rhythm.
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Wikipedia:
George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 1, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.
Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. He married singer Della Mae Wilson, and in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City.
Botsford's first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer", published in 1899 in Centerville, Iowa. Other early numbers followed themes of relaxation and wide open space, with "Dance of the Water Nymphs", which was sold as Hawaiian mood music, and Western-themed "In Dear Old Arizona" and "Pride of the Prairie". This would change when Botsford moved to New York City, where he joined an assortment of Tin Pan Alley composers and began writing ragtime almost exclusively.
Botsford secured his first songwriting contract with New York's J. H. Remick & Co. after selling them "Pride of the Prairie". It was while on that contract that he published "Black and White Rag", which stands as perhaps the most known work of his career. He was put in charge of vocal arrangements for Remick's "harmony & quartet" division in 1910.
Botsford was a founding member of ASCAP in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, he experimented with miniature opera intended to be sung by three or four people, but the idea never gained momentum.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/21/21-fats-waller-baby-oh-where-can-you-be-take-1--g-maj-transcription-pdf
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Original recording: youtu.be/hwRzIZQvX4Q
Info about Fats Waller:
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson.
Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show Keep Shufflin’. Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit Hot Chocolates with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf.
Fats’ most famous song, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller’s big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller’s death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm.
The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/fats-waller-1904-1943)
This video quote:
"If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it." - Thomas "Fats" Waller
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Wikipedia:
Thomas Million John Turpin was an American composer of ragtime music.
Tom Turpin was born in Savannah, Georgia, a son of John L. Turpin and Lulu Waters Turpin. In his early twenties he opened a saloon in St. Louis, Missouri which became a meeting-place for local pianists and an incubation point for early folk ragtime, such as musician Joe Jordan. Turpin himself is credited with the first published rag by an African-American, his "Harlem Rag" of 1897 (it was composed by 1892, a year before ragtime's introduction to the world at the 1893 Worlds Fair). His other published rags include "Bowery Buck," "Ragtime Nightmare," "St. Louis Rag," and "The Buffalo Rag".
Turpin was a large man, six feet (1.83 m) tall and 300 pounds (136 kg); his piano had to be raised on blocks so that he could play it standing up, otherwise his stomach would get in the way. In addition to his saloon-keeping duties and his ragtime composition, he controlled (with his brother Charles) a theater, gambling houses, dance halls, and sporting houses. He served as a deputy constable and was one of the first politically powerful African-Americans in St. Louis. His influence on local music earned him the title "Father of St. Louis Ragtime."
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
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Eric Philip Severin (possibly Erick at birth) represents yet another ragtime composer who had minimal yet high quality output, and on which only snippets of information can be found. Severin was born in Copley, Illinois, not far from Moline where he would spend much of his life, to Erick Nilsson Severin and Mathilda Johnson (some sources show Swanson), both Swedish immigrants.
Eric Jr. was the youngest of four boys including Theodore (1867), Martin Bromars (11/1869) and Oscar (1/1874). Their father was a local merchant in Copley. Eric's year of birth shows as 1877 on his draft record, but Illinois birth records and Knox County records from 1886 confirm the 1876 birth year. By 1900 he was listed in Moline as a professional musician. The three younger siblings were still living with their mother who had been widowed in 1890, and Martin also appears to have died by that time.
Also in 1900, Severin's first verifiable composition was published, Kentucky Korn-Kracker.jungle time cover There is a mention of another Severin piece, Lemon Blossoms, on the back, but no copy is known of to date. However, Lemon Blossoms does show up in copyright records for 1899. Philip followed these up in 1902 with Peanuts Frolic, and using print jobbers in various metropolitan areas managed to get it distributed in Chicago and New York, and possibly beyond.
(Source: ragpiano.com/comps/eseverin.shtml)
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Wikipedia:
James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student.
Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist."
Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard.
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Info on Percy:
Percy Wenrich was born on 23 January 1887 in Joplin, Missouri. He was later known as the “The Joplin Kid” due to his links to Joplin.
He was the son of Daniel K. Wenrich and Mary L. Ray. He came from a musical family. His father Daniel “according to a 1912 [Jopin] Globe article, [he was known] for his musical ability as a quartet singer and “composer of campaign songs in the days of President William McKinley.” Percy’s mother, Mary, was an accomplished pianist and organist and his first teacher.”
Percy published his first piece, titled “L’Inconnu,” in 1897 when he was 17. He had a thousand copies printed, which he sold one at a time in the district. While he was busy working up music, he was employed as an assistant postal clerk by his father. He also performed for friends at the YMCA at 418 Main St. [Joplin, Missouri] in 1901. Young Percy began writing his own melodies for which his father provided lyrics. Many of these songs were used locally at political rallies and conventions.
He continued to be interested in music and enrolled in the Chicago Musical College to be trained as a “serious” musician. Chicago Musical College was run by Florenz Ziegfield, Sr., the father of the Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. He continued his efforts in writing popular song and while in Chicago, succeeded in having two of his works published, Ashy Africa and Just Because I’m From Missouri. Interestingly perhaps, both titles were suggested to him by Frank Buck, a Chicago music publisher who went on to become a famous producer of African travel and adventure films.
While in Chicago, he worked for McKinley Music Company writing melodies for lyrics sent to McKinley. He composed various works including waltzes, songs, intermezzi and rags. He also worked in a Milwaukee department store’s music department where he published another song, Under A Tropical Moon. He later noted that working in the department store kept him from working in “the district” — an area that was home to many brothels. (1, 2)
His first best-seller without lyrics was “The Smiler,” published in 1907. He subtitled it “A Joplin Rag” in honor of his hometown.
(Source: anna-kasper.com/2022/02/03/percy-wenrich)
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Wikipedia:
George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 1, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.
Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. He married singer Della Mae Wilson, and in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City.
Botsford's first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer", published in 1899 in Centerville, Iowa. Other early numbers followed themes of relaxation and wide open space, with "Dance of the Water Nymphs", which was sold as Hawaiian mood music, and Western-themed "In Dear Old Arizona" and "Pride of the Prairie". This would change when Botsford moved to New York City, where he joined an assortment of Tin Pan Alley composers and began writing ragtime almost exclusively.
Botsford secured his first songwriting contract with New York's J. H. Remick & Co. after selling them "Pride of the Prairie". It was while on that contract that he published "Black and White Rag", which stands as perhaps the most known work of his career. He was put in charge of vocal arrangements for Remick's "harmony & quartet" division in 1910.
Botsford was a founding member of ASCAP in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, he experimented with miniature opera intended to be sung by three or four people, but the idea never gained momentum.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
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Info about Willie "The Lion" Smith:
Willie “The Lion” Smith (November 23, 1893 – April 18, 1973) was one of the fathers of the stride piano style. During the 1920s he was a sort of underground figure, who gained a reputation as a hot piano player by providing the music for rent parties in the private homes and small clubs of Harlem. He recorded rarely during the 1920s, but was the first musical director of Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds and is the pianist on “Crazy Blues“, the first Blues record released in 1920.
Smith was a major influence on Duke Ellington who later went on to write the songs “Portrait of the Lion” and “Second Portrait of the Lion” in honor of him. Smith didn’t make any recordings under his own name until the mid-1930s, but played on several of Perry Bradford’s sessions like Georgia Strutters, The Gulf Coast Seven and The Blue Rhythm Orchestra. Throughout his career he led few bands, preferring the life of a solo performer, but he remained very active in music until his death in 1973.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/willie-the-lion-smith-1897-1973)
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Wikipedia on Trés Moutarde:
"Too Much Mustard" or "Tres Moutarde" is a turkey trot composed by Cecil Macklin in 1911. it was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century, and continues to be performed often. The song was also often performed as early jazz. Performers included Prince's Band, Victor Military Band, Joe "Fingers" Car, Paul Whiteman and Teresa Brewer.
Wikipedia on Cecil Macklin:
British composer Cecil Macklin (1883-1944) was primarily an arranger of dance music, but one of his original pieces, Très Moutarde, stood out, gaining wide popularity.
Other works written in the years that followed included: Tango is the Dance for Me and Anticipation (1912), That Whistling Rage (1913), Caper Sauce and The Cockney Crawl (1914), and The Honorable Artillery Company March (1916), but none found the audience appeal of Très Moutarde.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
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Wikipedia:
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.
Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Although widely considered a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music.
Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered among the best players in the idiom. Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards.
He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. In the early 1940s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces. Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major revival and embarked on world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in and scored several films, and composed a handful of stage musicals.
Ellington was noted for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and for his eloquence and charisma. His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
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Wikipedia:
Joseph Francis Lamb was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. By the time he added some polish to his later works in the 1950s, Lamb had mastered the classic rag genre in a way that almost no other composer was able to approach at that time, and continued to play it passably as well, as evidenced by at least two separate recordings done in his home, as well as a few recorded interviews.
Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey. The youngest of four children, he taught himself to play the piano and admired the early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. He dropped out of St. Jerome's College in 1904 to work for a dry goods company. He met Joplin in 1907 while purchasing the latest Joplin and Scott sheet music in the offices of John Stark & Son. Joplin was impressed with Lamb's compositions and recommended him to ragtime publisher John Stark. Stark published Lamb's music for the next decade, starting with "Sensation".
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"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." - Joseph F. Lamb
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
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Wikipedia:
Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.
Ammons was born in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were pianists, and he had learned to play by the age of ten. His interest in boogie-woogie is attributed to his close friendship with Meade Lux Lewis and also his father's interest in the style. Both Albert and Meade would practice together on the piano in the Ammons household. From the age of ten, Ammons learned about chords by marking the depressed keys on the family pianola (player piano) with a pencil and repeated the process until he had mastered it. He also played percussion in a drum and bugle corps as a teenager and was soon performing with bands in clubs in Chicago. After World War I he became interested in the blues, learning by listening to the Chicago pianists Hersal Thomas and the brothers Alonzo and Jimmy Yancey.
In the early to mid-1920s Ammons worked as a cab driver for the Silver Taxicab Company. In 1924 he met up with his boyhood friend Meade Lux Lewis, who was also then a taxi driver. Soon the two players began working as a team, performing at club parties. Ammons started his own band at the Club DeLisa in 1934 and remained at the club for the next two years. During that time he played with a five-piece band that included Guy Kelly, Dalbert Bright, Jimmy Hoskins, and Israel Crosby. Ammons also recorded as Albert Ammons's Rhythm Kings for Decca Records in 1936. The Rhythm Kings' version of "Swanee River Boogie" sold a million copies, and their 1936 recording of "Boogie Woogie Stomp" has been described as "the first 12-bar piano based boogie-woogie, [which] was imitated by many jazz bands."
Ammons moved from Chicago to New York City, where he teamed up with another pianist, Pete Johnson. The two performed regularly at the Café Society, occasionally joined by Lewis or by other jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman and Harry James.
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Wikipedia:
George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 1, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.
Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. He married singer Della Mae Wilson, and in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City.
Botsford's first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer", published in 1899 in Centerville, Iowa. Other early numbers followed themes of relaxation and wide open space, with "Dance of the Water Nymphs", which was sold as Hawaiian mood music, and Western-themed "In Dear Old Arizona" and "Pride of the Prairie". This would change when Botsford moved to New York City, where he joined an assortment of Tin Pan Alley composers and began writing ragtime almost exclusively.
Botsford secured his first songwriting contract with New York's J. H. Remick & Co. after selling them "Pride of the Prairie". It was while on that contract that he published "Black and White Rag", which stands as perhaps the most known work of his career. He was put in charge of vocal arrangements for Remick's "harmony & quartet" division in 1910.
Botsford was a founding member of ASCAP in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, he experimented with miniature opera intended to be sung by three or four people, but the idea never gained momentum.
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Wikipedia:
Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey was an American composer and performer of novelty piano and jazz music. His most noted works were "Kitten on the Keys" and "Dizzy Fingers." Studying at the Chicago Musical College and becoming enthralled by French impressionists played a critical role in how he composed and performed music.
Confrey was born in Peru, Illinois, United States, the youngest child of Thomas and Margaret Confrey. Aspiring to be a concert pianist, he attended Chicago Musical College and studied with private teachers. He later abandoned that idea for composing, encouraged by his oldest brother, James J. Confrey, an organist. By 1916 he was a staff pianist for Witmarks in Chicago. He also enlisted in the US Navy in 1917.
After World War I, Confrey became a pianist and arranger for the QRS piano roll company. He also recorded for AMPICO's reproducing piano system, which was installed in upper-line pianos such as Mason & Hamlin and Chickering.
In 1921 Confrey wrote his novelty piano solo "Kitten on the Keys", inspired by hearing his grandmother's cat walk on the keyboard of her piano. It became a hit, and he went on to compose many other pieces in the genre. "Dizzy Fingers" (1923) was Confrey's other biggest seller.
Following the 1920s, Confrey focused primarily on composing for jazz bands. He retired after World War II but continued to compose until 1959. He died at age 76 in Lakewood, New Jersey after suffering for many years from Parkinson's disease. He left behind more than a hundred piano works, songs and miniature operas, and numerous piano rolls, music publications and sound recordings.
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Wikipedia:
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso." He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd. His live album, Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold over a million copies by 1958 and Scott Yanow's opinion is: "this is the album that made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."
Garner was born with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, the youngest of six children in an African-American family. He attended George Westinghouse High School (as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal). Interviews with his family and music teachers (and with other musicians), plus a detailed family tree are given in Erroll Garner: The Most Happy Piano by James M Doran.
Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by Miss Bowman. From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, just like Miss Bowman, his eldest sister Martha said. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life, never learning to read music. At age seven, he began appearing on the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By age 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. In 1937 he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown.
He played locally in the shadow of his older pianist brother Linton Garner.
This video quote:
"I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't." - Erroll Garner
@errollgarnerofficial
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/51/51-fats-waller-georgia-on-my-mind-f-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/EBISK3RP0xE
Info about Fats Waller:
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson.
Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show Keep Shufflin’. Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit Hot Chocolates with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf.
Fats’ most famous song, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller’s big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller’s death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm.
The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/fats-waller-1904-1943)
This video quote:
"This is so nice, it must be illegal." - Thomas "Fats" Waller
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Original recording: youtube.com/watch?v=tKqTmhoDpr4
Info about Eubie Blake:
Everyone cherished Eubie Blake, particularly in his later years. A lovable character who had survived a long lean period, in the 1970s he was the last major survivor of the ragtime era. While a few of his claims ended up being fictional, the fact that he was still performing joyful vintage music in his nineties was remarkable enough.
James Hubert “Eubie” Blake always said that he was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 7, 1883, but in 2003 it was discovered (through research into the U.S. Census, his social security records and passports) that he actually arrived on February 7, 1887. His parents were former slaves and Eubie was the only one of their children to survive more than a few years.
When he was four or five, Eubie was in a music store with his mother and started spontaneously playing some ideas on the organ, amazing the store manager. Soon his parents purchased an organ and at seven he began receiving music lessons from a church musician and he was soon doubling on piano. When he was 15 in 1902, he worked as a pianist at Aggie Shelton’s bordello in Baltimore, the first of many jobs he had performing rags and popular melodies from the era at sporting houses, saloons, and with medicine shows.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/eubie-blake-profiles-in-jazz)
This video quote:
"All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?" - Eubie Blake
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Wikipedia on Ernesto:
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (March 20, 1863 – February 1, 1934) was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative Maxixe and Choro compositions. Influenced by a diverse set of rhythms like the polka, the habanera, and the lundu, he combined this elements with his classical formation to create compositions that he called “Brazilian tangos". These would be the precursors for what is known today as Choro. His piano repertoire is now part of the teaching programs of both classical and popular styles, as Nazareth once served at the boundary between these two worlds.
Ernesto Nazareth was born in Rio de Janeiro, one of five children. His mother, Carolina da Cunha gave him his first piano lessons. At the age of ten, after his mother's death, he continued his piano studies with Eduardo Madeira and Charles Lucien Lambert. Strongly influenced by Chopin, Nazareth published his first composition Você Bem Sabe (which means "You know it well") in 1877, at age 14. At that time, he had begun his professional career playing in cafes, balls, society parties and in the waiting rooms of movie theaters. In 1893, Casa Vieira Machado published his famous tango Brejeiro.
Wikipedia on Brazilian Choro music:
Choro, also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Despite its name, the music often has a fast and happy rhythm. It is characterized by virtuosity, improvisation and subtle modulations, and is full of syncopation and counterpoint. Choro is considered the first characteristically Brazilian genre of urban popular music. The serenaders who play choros are known as chorões.
Originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings). Other instruments commonly played in choro are the mandolin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. These melody instruments are backed by a rhythm section composed of 6-string guitar, 7-string guitar (playing bass lines) and light percussion, such as a pandeiro. The cavaquinho appears sometimes as a melody instrument, other times as part of the rhythm.
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Original recording: youtube.com/watch?v=ZjOxN2M4TCQ
Wikipedia:
Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.
Tony Russell stated in his book The Blues – From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray that "Johnson shared with the other members of the 'Boogie Woogie Trio' the technical virtuosity and melodic fertility that can make this the most exciting of all piano music styles, but he was more comfortable than Meade Lux Lewis in a band setting; and as an accompanist, unlike Lewis or Albert Ammons, he could sparkle but not outshine his singing partner". Scott Yanow for AllMusic, wrote: "Johnson was one of the three great boogie-woogie pianists", the others being Lewis and Ammons "whose sudden prominence in the late 1930s helped make the style very popular".
Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised by his mother after his father deserted the family. Things got so bad financially, Pete was placed in an orphanage when he was three. He became so homesick, however, that he ran away and returned living at home. By the age of 12, he sought out work to ease some of the financial burden at home. He worked various jobs; in a factory, a print shop, and as a shoe-shiner. He dropped out of school in the fifth grade as a result of his efforts.
Johnson began his musical career in 1922 as a drummer in Kansas City. He began piano about the same time he was learning the drums. His early piano practices took place in a church, where he was working as a water boy for a construction company.[5] From 1926 to 1938, he worked as a pianist, often working with Big Joe Turner. An encounter with record producer John Hammond in 1936 led to an engagement at the Famous Door in New York City. In 1938, Johnson and Turner appeared in the From Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall. After this show the popularity of the boogie-woogie style was on the upswing. Johnson worked locally and toured and recorded with Turner, Meade Lux Lewis, and Albert Ammons during this period. Ammons and Johnson appeared in the film short Boogie-Woogie Dream in 1941.
The 1938 song "Roll 'Em Pete" (composed by Johnson and Turner),[6] featuring Turner on vocals and Johnson on piano, was one of the first rock and roll records. Another self-referential title was their "Johnson and Turner Blues." In 1949, he also wrote and recorded "Rocket 88 Boogie," a two-sided instrumental, which influenced the 1951 Ike Turner hit, "Rocket 88".
On three dates in January 1946, Johnson recorded an early concept album, Pete Johnson's Housewarmin’, in which he starts out playing alone, supposedly in a new empty house, and is joined there by J. C. Higginbotham, J. C. Heard, and other Kansas City players. The recording also included parts played by Albert Nicholas, Hot Lips Page, Clyde Bernhardt. Budd Johnson, and a young singer, Etta Jones. Each has a solo cut backed by Johnson, and then the whole group plays a jam session together. On this album Johnson shows his considerable command of stride piano and his ability to work with a group. It was later re-released as Pete's Blues.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
Check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/410/410-james-p-johnson-yamekraw-ab-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: http://youtu.be/2kQHtos9sds
Info on Yamekraw:
After his friend George Gershwin had such success with "Rhapsody in Blue," James P. Johnson thought he'd try his hand at writing a piece for jazz piano and orchestra. Johnson's piece is called "Yamekraw, A Negro Rhapsody." It has some of the same exuberent bubble and bounce you might know from the Gershwin and it makes a fascinating counterpoint to "Rhapsody in Blue."
We have a concert performance by pianist Gary Hammond, with Richard Rosenberg conducting the Hot Springs Festival Chamber Orchestra from Hot Springs, Ark.
(Source: npr.org/2006/02/07/5192879/james-p-johnsons-yamekraw-a-negro-rhapsody)
Yamekraw, a Negro Rhapsody is a jazz musical composition written by James P. Johnson in 1927 about a neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia. It was a response to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. It was initially composed for the piano, but was first performed at Carnegie Hall as a jazz-like orchestral arrangement. A recording was made of Johnson performing the music on piano. A film inspired by the song was also made.
Yamacraw was a black neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia. The song was inspired by the culture of the neighborhood, and billed as a more "authentic" rhapsody.
Murray Roth directed a short 1930 musical film inspired by the song. The film has been referred to by the title Yamekraw and Yamacraw. It is a Vitaphone Varieties film produced by Warner Brothers. The film depicts a poor man from a rural area travelling to a large city where he encounters a dancer. Jimmy Mordecai portrayed the lead character. In the film, Yamekraw is described as a settlement outside Savannah, Georgia. The film was shown in 2009. The song is included on the album The Symphonic Jazz of James P. Johnson.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamekraw)
Wikipedia:
James Price Johnson was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student.
Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist."
Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
Check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/410/410-james-p-johnson-yamekraw-ab-maj-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: http://youtu.be/ydKkQoyO-KM
Info on Yamekraw:
After his friend George Gershwin had such success with "Rhapsody in Blue," James P. Johnson thought he'd try his hand at writing a piece for jazz piano and orchestra. Johnson's piece is called "Yamekraw, A Negro Rhapsody." It has some of the same exuberent bubble and bounce you might know from the Gershwin and it makes a fascinating counterpoint to "Rhapsody in Blue."
We have a concert performance by pianist Gary Hammond, with Richard Rosenberg conducting the Hot Springs Festival Chamber Orchestra from Hot Springs, Ark.
(Source: npr.org/2006/02/07/5192879/james-p-johnsons-yamekraw-a-negro-rhapsody)
Yamekraw, a Negro Rhapsody is a jazz musical composition written by James P. Johnson in 1927 about a neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia. It was a response to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. It was initially composed for the piano, but was first performed at Carnegie Hall as a jazz-like orchestral arrangement. A recording was made of Johnson performing the music on piano. A film inspired by the song was also made.
Yamacraw was a black neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia. The song was inspired by the culture of the neighborhood, and billed as a more "authentic" rhapsody.
Murray Roth directed a short 1930 musical film inspired by the song. The film has been referred to by the title Yamekraw and Yamacraw. It is a Vitaphone Varieties film produced by Warner Brothers. The film depicts a poor man from a rural area travelling to a large city where he encounters a dancer. Jimmy Mordecai portrayed the lead character. In the film, Yamekraw is described as a settlement outside Savannah, Georgia. The film was shown in 2009. The song is included on the album The Symphonic Jazz of James P. Johnson.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamekraw)
Wikipedia:
James Price Johnson was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student.
Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist."
Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard.
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►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Wikipedia:
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his own musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. While in Texarkana, Texas, he formed a vocal quartet and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he left his job as a railroad laborer and travelled the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897.
Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher. There he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame. This piece had a profound influence on writers of ragtime. It also brought Joplin a steady income for life, though he did not reach this level of success again and frequently had financial problems. In 1901 Joplin moved to St. Louis, where he continued to compose and publish, and regularly performed in the community. The score to his first opera A Guest of Honor was confiscated in 1903 with his belongings for non-payment of bills, and is now considered lost.
In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that made him famous, but without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was never fully staged during his lifetime.
In 1916, Joplin descended into dementia as a result of syphilis. He was admitted to a mental institution in January 1917, and died there three months later at the age of 48. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format; over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz, and eventually big band swing.
Joplin's music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This was followed by the Academy Award-winning 1973 film The Sting that featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably "The Entertainer", whose performance by pianist Marvin Hamlisch received wide airplay. Treemonisha was finally produced in full, to wide acclaim, in 1972. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
This video quote:
"Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture." - Scott Joplin
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Sequenced by Colin D. MacDonald
Wikipedia:
George Botsford (February 24, 1874 – February 1, 1949) was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.
Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but grew up mostly in Clermont, Iowa. He married singer Della Mae Wilson, and in 1900, they began touring with the Hoyle Stock Company troupe. An ad promoting Botsford and his wife as musicians appeared in the New York Clipper in 1901, which may indicate the first time that Botsford visited New York City.
Botsford's first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer", published in 1899 in Centerville, Iowa. Other early numbers followed themes of relaxation and wide open space, with "Dance of the Water Nymphs", which was sold as Hawaiian mood music, and Western-themed "In Dear Old Arizona" and "Pride of the Prairie". This would change when Botsford moved to New York City, where he joined an assortment of Tin Pan Alley composers and began writing ragtime almost exclusively.
Botsford secured his first songwriting contract with New York's J. H. Remick & Co. after selling them "Pride of the Prairie". It was while on that contract that he published "Black and White Rag", which stands as perhaps the most known work of his career. He was put in charge of vocal arrangements for Remick's "harmony & quartet" division in 1910.
Botsford was a founding member of ASCAP in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, he experimented with miniature opera intended to be sung by three or four people, but the idea never gained momentum.
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Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz
check out the transcription: blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/49/49-fats-waller-saint-louis-blues-g-min-transcription-pdf
And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: blueblackjazz.com
Original recording: youtu.be/l7j2XTnRw-Y
Info about Fats Waller:
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson.
Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show Keep Shufflin’. Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit Hot Chocolates with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf.
Fats’ most famous song, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller’s big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller’s death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm.
The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/fats-waller-1904-1943)
This video quote:
"I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!" - Thomas "Fats" Waller
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Info on Kerry:
Frederick Allen Mills enjoyed a career with a true duality, and great success in both facets of his years as a composer (Kerry Mills) and a publisher (F.A. Mills). Somehow he managed to keep these facets separate as he did his identities, yet made it all work together. Not much has been written on Mills beyond his role in popularizing cakewalks and his three biggest hits, but this account will hopefully fill out some more details about his life and times in the music business.
Frederick was born to Frederick Mills and Annie Lund in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania less than half a decade after the end of the Civil War. He had two sisters, one older, Florence (1863), and one younger, Caroline (1877). His father Fred was listed as a lecturer, but in what field is unclear.
Mr. Mills toured often and spent quite a bit of time away from home, as is evidenced in various city and local census listings. The 1870 census taken in Philadelphia showed Annie residing with two of her sisters, as well as Florence and baby Frederick, while her husband was not listed. Mills moved his family to Detroit, Michigan in the mid-1870s, where Carrie was born, and they are found there in the 1880 census.
According to an early biography of Mills, he began studying music at age eight, with his main focus initially on the violin, as per his father's wishes. By the time the elder Frederick died around 1884, his musical performances helped to contribute to the family income. In his late teens Frederick claims he was given the position of the musical director of the Casino Roller Rink in Detroit, managing and directing an orchestra. Around 1887 he was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to attend the Chicago Musical College, run by Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr., from that time through at least 1892.
For at least the last two years Mills was also an instructor at the institution. For extra income he played second violin with the Jacobsohn String Quartette, a university sponsored group under a Professor Jacobsohn, and claimed to be one of the more notable groups of that kind in the country. In 1891 his first known published work, Flirtation Polka, was issued in Oskaloosa, Iowa, by the C.L Barnhouse Company.
Source: http://ragpiano.com/comps/famills.shtml
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Transcribed by @RagtimeDorianHenry
Original recording & sheet music: youtu.be/RTdjhpNHhU0
Info on Cab Calloway:
Cabell Calloway III was born in Rochester, New York on Christmas Day, 1907. Cab’s family was upper middle class: his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed was a teacher and church organist, his father Cabell Calloway, Jr. was a lawyer and worked in real estate. Shortly after Cab was born, the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Cab received musical training from the age of 14. He also partook of Baltimore’s night life (though his parents and teachers tried to discourage him from any involvement with jazz).
After graduating from high school, Cab Calloway joined his sister Blanche (already a successful singer and bandleader) in a road company of the popular black musical Plantation Days. Cab’s family had hopes for him following his father into law, and he enrolled in Crane College in Chicago. The Chicago jazz scene proved more attractive to Cab than his legal studies, and he soon became a full-time entertainer.
After a stint vocalizing with Marion Hardy’s Alabamians in 1929, Cab took over as leader of the excellent Missourians, restyling the group as Cab Calloway and his Orchestra. Cab recorded “Minnie the Moocher” with the band in 1931. “Minnie” was a huge hit that became forever associated with him. It also was the first record that featured his trademark “call and response” style, reprised on many other selections.
Cab Calloway recorded prolifically through the 1930s and beyond, and appeared in numerous films from 1932 onward (beginning with Paramount’s The Big Broadcast). Cab worked in every medium thereafter, including a memorable appearance as Sportin’ Life in the 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess. Cab retained a strong popularity as a performer well into his 80s, and performed notable renditions of “Minnie the Moocher” in The Blues Brothers (1980) and with the Cincinnati Pops in 1988. Cab passed away on November 18, 1994.
Cab’s legacy continues on. In 1994, The Cab Calloway School for the Arts was dedicated in his name in Wilmington, Delaware. Cab’s grandson Christopher Calloway Brooks today leads the stomping, swinging Cab Calloway Orchestra to delight all who have ears to hear it.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/cab-calloway)
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Original recording: youtu.be/LIyQiviiADs
Orchestral version: youtu.be/Hh5H6yWpRek
Info about Jungle Drums:
“Drums,” also known as “African Drums,” “Rhythm Drums,” and “Those Jungle Drums,” was originally one of the tunes included in the very successful 1932 Johnson stage show entitled Harlem Hotcha which played at Connie’s Inn in Harlem. Andy Razaf wrote all the lyrics. Handy Brothers, owned by the famous blues composer W. C. Handy, published most of the tunes from the show but released “Drums” back to the composers. It was described as “the voluptuous and entwining terpsichorean number (in other words, ‘cootch dance’).” It would metamorphose from a titillating Harlem stage show number to an orchestrated symphonic tone poem entitled “Those Jungle Drums” with lyrics added later by Langston Hughes to accompany it as an art dance. In a hand written note, Johnson describes the structure of the piece:
African Drums- 32 bars of solo drums played by timpani announces or sets the atmosphere and rhythm for a female dancer after which begins an imaginary (?) dance accompanied by the whole orchestra which gives out the dance motive for two bars and is answered by an orchestrated figure depicting the stamping and shouting of the other participants. Then follows a faster and swifter tempo and dance by the other members of the group. This is developed to the solo announcement of the drums again. Then follows the song of Africa and the drums. After this there is a flute solo accompanied by bass violin and tom toms alone depicting the voodoo dance and from here the composition is developed to a grand climax which combines all the themes and drum rhythms with one final announcement of the theme by the orchestra in one triumphant and savage shout and the end.
(Source: jpjohnsonmusic.com/drums-1)
Info about James P. Johnson:
As a boy, James P. Johnson studied Classical music and Ragtime. He started playing professionally in a sporting house, and then progressed to rent parties, bars and vaudeville. He eventually became known as the best piano player on the East Coast and was widely utilized as an accompanist on over 400 recordings and from 1916 on, produced hundreds of piano rolls under his own name.
He backed up many of the Classic Blues singers of the 1920s, such as Ida Cox, Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. Johnson’s 1921 recording of “Carolina Shout” is considered to be the first recorded Jazz piano solo by some critics, although it sounds a lot like Ragtime to this listener’s ears. He wrote several musical revues, including “Running W and “Plantation Days and his 1928 collaboration with his former piano student Fats Waller, Keep Shufflin‘. His song “Charleston” from Running Wild was one of the best known and most widely recorded songs of 1920s. Other hits included “Old Fashioned Love” and “If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)“.
Johnson composed several symphonic works, which include “Yamecraw: A Negro Rhapsody” (1928), “Tone Poem” (1930), “Symphony Harlem ” (1932), a symphonic version of W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” (1937), and the one-act opera “De Organizer” (1940), with lyrics by Langston Hughes. None of his symphonic works were very popular and have seldom been performed. Johnson is generally considered the “Father of the Stride” piano, and was a major influence on some of Jazz’s great pianists such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Thelonious Monk.
The discography of James P. Johnson and his bands should not be treated as exhaustive. He recorded extensively in the 1940s, reviving some of his band names from the 1920s and also recording solo for several labels. There are both Asch and Decca recordings missing from this discography that may be added over time.
(Source: syncopatedtimes.com/james-price-johnson-1891-1955)
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Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman
Wikipedia:
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his own musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. While in Texarkana, Texas, he formed a vocal quartet and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he left his job as a railroad laborer and travelled the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897.
Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher. There he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame. This piece had a profound influence on writers of ragtime. It also brought Joplin a steady income for life, though he did not reach this level of success again and frequently had financial problems. In 1901 Joplin moved to St. Louis, where he continued to compose and publish, and regularly performed in the community. The score to his first opera A Guest of Honor was confiscated in 1903 with his belongings for non-payment of bills, and is now considered lost.
In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that made him famous, but without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was never fully staged during his lifetime.
In 1916, Joplin descended into dementia as a result of syphilis. He was admitted to a mental institution in January 1917, and died there three months later at the age of 48. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format; over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz, and eventually big band swing.
Joplin's music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This was followed by the Academy Award-winning 1973 film The Sting that featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably "The Entertainer", whose performance by pianist Marvin Hamlisch received wide airplay. Treemonisha was finally produced in full, to wide acclaim, in 1972. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
This video quote:
"Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that." - Scott Joplin
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Info on George:
One of the earliest published composers of syncopated music, George Barnard actually contributed more to American band music, and band programs for youth. He was born in late 1857 nearly four decades before ragtime was first heard by the general public. George was the youngest child of Michigan farmer Daniel O. Barnard and his bride Rebecca A. Banks. His older siblings included William Stuart (5/23/1842), Emily (8/13/1845), Charles (3/1847), Luther James (1851-1871) and Roland (1853-1862).
While George's birth year has been traditionally reported as 1858, he himself noted 1857, and since he was 2 in August of 1860, 12 in June of 1870 and 22 in June of 1880, these are all consistent with the 1857 birth year which is used here. Also, his original home was Sandstone in Jackson County, Michigan, not Jackson itself. The Barnard family is shown there in both the 1860 and 1870 census enumerations.
As a youth he received some musical training, but spent much of his own time and initiative learning various band instruments. In his early twenties he was knowledgeable enough about both instruments and band orchestrations that he was able to get a job working for music dealer, instrument maker and sometime publisher Lyon and Healy of Chicago.
On August 16, 1879, George married his first wife, Jennie McQuaid (McQuaid was her birth name, but Roby was her stepfather's name which may have also been used), and she often accompanied him as he traveled the country peddling the Lyon and Healy products.alabama dream cover But it is probable that George was also playing in various bands, and perhaps doing some piano performance as well. In the 1880 census, living in East Saginaw, Michigan with his new bride, George was listed as a musician. His mother had been widowed by that time, and was living in Jackson with her son Charles.
George learned more about band orchestrations during his travels and experiences with bands. By 1890 he was dabbling in composition, and Lyon and Healy utilized him as an arranger as well. Many of his early compositions were published in Philadelphia by the John Church company. Barnard had the advantage of being exposed to what was often the newest type of music in one or another location, then spreading the idea of that form to other places he visited. In 1897 he wrote his first of many waltzes, which was also a Spanish-tinged serenade, a form he would revisit again.
Two years later, during the height of the Cakewalk craze, George contributed his own durable entry, Alabama Dream. Even though most cakewalks were fairly good sellers, well written ones like Alabama Dream did even better. It was played by many bands and pianists around the country.
Source: http://ragpiano.com/comps/gbarnard.shtml
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Transcribed by: @itsRemco & @MidiTools
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Original recording: youtube.com/watch?v=G44Q2Jg4JDE
Wikipedia:
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso." He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd. His live album, Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold over a million copies by 1958 and Scott Yanow's opinion is: "this is the album that made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on."
Garner was born with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, the youngest of six children in an African-American family. He attended George Westinghouse High School (as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal). Interviews with his family and music teachers (and with other musicians), plus a detailed family tree are given in Erroll Garner: The Most Happy Piano by James M Doran.
Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by Miss Bowman. From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, just like Miss Bowman, his eldest sister Martha said. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life, never learning to read music. At age seven, he began appearing on the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By age 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. In 1937 he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown.
He played locally in the shadow of his older pianist brother Linton Garner.
This video quote:
"Nobody can hear you read music" - Erroll Garner
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