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List Of Ragtime Pianist
List of ragtime pianists Elliott Shapiro (1895–1956), son of music publisher Maurice Shapiro, in a 1951 article, offered a list of standout ragtime pianists — in two categories: : Ragtime pioneers * Mike Bernard (1875–1936) * George Botsford (1874–1949) * Louis Chauvin (1881–1908) * Ben Harney (1872–1938) * Tony Jackson (1882–1921) * Scott Joplin (1868–1917) * Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941) * Tom Turpin (1871–1932) * Percy Wenrich (1887–1952) :Later ragtimers * Eubie Blake (1887–1983) * Ed. B. Claypoole (fr) (1883–1952) * Les C. Copeland (1887–1942) * Ford Dabney (1883–1958) * Lucien Denni (1886–1947) * Jay Roberts (fr) (1890–1932) * Luckey Roberts (1887–1968) * J. Russel Robinson (1892–1963) * Willie "The Lion" Smith (1893–1973) * Fats Waller (1904–1943) * Pete Wendling (1888–1974) * James Edison 'Slap' White (1881– ''c.'' 1930s) Many ragtime pianist, beginning around the 1920s, went on to perform stride and boogie-woogie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luckey Roberts
Charles Luckyth Roberts (August 7, 1887 – February 5, 1968), better known as Luckey Roberts, was an American composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles. Biography Luckey Roberts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallie Herzer
Wallie Herzer ''(né'' Walter Henry Herzer; 15 April 1885 San Francisco – 15 October 1961 Redwood City, California) was an American composer of popular music, music publisher, and pianist. Herzer flourished in music prior to and during World War I. The Columbia recording of his 1912 composition, "Everybody Two-Step" — performed by ragtime pianist Mike Bernard on December 2, 1912, in New York City — is the first recording of ragtime music. It became a hit and coincided at the start of a renewed craze for ragtime and dance — fifteen years after William Krell's "Mississippi Rag" had been published, the first known published music with "rag" in the title. Herzer composed three other hits — a 1913 piano rag, "Tickle the Ivories" – which also became hit as a vocal arrangement; a 1914 foxtrot song, "Get Over, Sal"; and a 1916 Hawaiian waltz song, "Aloha Land". Other compositions — including his 1908 piano ragtime two-step and barn dance, "The Rah-Rah Boy", and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blind Leroy Garnett
Leroy Roscoe Garnett, known professionally as Blind Leroy Garnett (August 6, 1897 – January 3, 1933) was an American boogie-woogie and ragtime pianist and songwriter. His two solo recorded compositions were "Louisiana Glide" and "Chain 'Em Down", although scant details of his life and career are known. Life and career Garnett was born in Indianapolis, United States, to parents Charles and Mattie Garnett (née Georapy), who both hailed from Kentucky. By 1910, all of the family had relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where he remained until at least 1930. In 1918, Garnett was described as a "piano player, not employed", short, stout and "totally blind". His playing style incorporated both boogie-woogie and ragtime, often termed 'barrelhouse'. Certainly "Louisiana Glide" was described as a "good example of the barrelhouse style wherein melodic treble work is combined with a thunderous, driving boogie-type bass". He recorded a total of eight tracks for Paramount Records in 1929 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ezell
William Ezell (December 23, 1892 – August 2, 1963), was an American blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and occasional singer, who was also billed as Will Ezell. He regularly contributed to recordings made by Paramount Records in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Ezell was noted by the music journalist Bruce Eder as "a technically brilliant pianist, showing the strong influence of jazz as well as blues in his work". Ezell's "Pitchin' Boogie" and Cow Cow Davenport's "Cow Cow Blues" were amongst the earliest boogie-woogie recordings. However, Pinetop Smith's "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" was the first to use the phrase in the title of a song. Two of Ezell's more notable solo recordings, "Heifer Dust" and "Barrel House Woman" (both 1929), have been noted for containing "elements of both blues and barrelhouse boogie-woogie in their form". Biography Ezell was born in Brenham, Texas, United States,There has been speculation and supposition concerning details of Ezell's birth. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glover Compton
John Glover Compton (January 6, 1884 – June 11, 1964), usually referred to as Glover Compton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist. Biography Compton was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and is first recorded as a pianist and entertainer in Louisville in about 1904. That year, he met pianist Tony Jackson, collaborating with him in writing a piece, "The Clock of Time", which was reportedly re-used as the basis of the 1922 song "My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)", recorded by Trixie Smith with a writing credit to music publisher J. Berni Barbour. Compton then worked as an itinerant piano player, working in Chicago in 1906 and also spending time in Wyoming, Washington, and New York. He married singer Nettie Lewis in 1911, and started living with his wife and mother in Chicago, where he worked as a duo with Jackson as well as accompanist to his wife. He worked with composer Shelton Brooks, who dedicated his 1916 piece " Walkin' the Dog" to Compton. He also performed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hughie Cannon
Hugo Cannon (April 9, 1877 – June 17, 1912) was an American songwriter and pianist whose best-known composition was the popular ragtime song "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey". Biography Cannon was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1877. He began performing with Barlow's Minstrels in the 1890s, as a singer, dancer, and piano player, often working with actor John Queen and having several songs published. Bill Edwards, "Hugo "Hughie" Cannon", ''RagPiano.com'' Retrieved 5 April 2017 He occasionally worked as a bar pianist in , where he met local musician Willard "Bill" Bailey. Reportedly, on one occasion in 1902, Bailey was talking to Cannon about the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brun Campbell
Brun Campbell (March 26, 1884 – November 23, 1952) was an American composer and pianist. Biography Born Sanford Brunson Campbell in Oberlin, Kansas, he ran away to Oklahoma City when he was fifteen and met Scott Joplin. For the next decade, he made his living as a traveling pianist in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern and Southern United States, Southern United States. In 1908, he married and settled down to become a barber. Toward the end of his life, he wrote about ragtime and made recordings. He died in Venice, California. He is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Compositions None of Campbell's compositions were copyrighted or published during his lifetime. However, they became known from recordings he made in the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1993, Richard Egan, Jr. published ''Brun Campbell: The Music of "The Ragtime Kid"'', a collection of transcriptions of Campbell pieces. In 2000, David Thomas Roberts recorded an album of Campbell's music, which was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank P
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually extended from piano, to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While standard blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing (although not the competitive dance known as boogie-woogie, a term of convenience in that sport). The genre had a significant influence on rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Musical features Boogie-woogie is characterized by a regular left-hand bass figure, which is transposed following the chord changes. : : Boogie-woogie is not strictly a solo piano style; it can accompany singers and be featured in orchestras and small combos. It is sometimes called ''"eight to the bar"'', as much of it is written in common time () time using eighth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stride (music)
Stride jazz piano, often shortened to stride, is a jazz piano style that arose from ragtime players. Prominent stride pianists include James P. Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Fats Waller, Luckey Roberts, Mrs Mills and Mary Lou Williams. Technique Stride employed left hand techniques from ragtime, wider use of the piano's range, and quick tempos. Compositions were written but were also intended to be improvised. The term "stride" comes from the idea of the pianist's left hand leaping, or "striding", across the piano. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, major seventh, minor seventh or major tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. Occasionally this pattern is reversed by placing the chord on the downbeat and bass notes on the upbeat. Unlike performers of the ragtime popularized by Scott Joplin, stride players' left hands span greater distances on the keyboard. Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
