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1 de ago. de 2001 · James P. Johnson was sometimes called the "perfecter" of stride piano, the difficult piano form where the left hand "strides" up and down between bass notes and chords, while the right hand plays ...
James P. Johnson (1 de febrero de 1894, Nuevo Brunswick, Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos – 17 de noviembre de 1955, Nueva York, Estados Unidos), fue un pianista absolutamente relevante en la historia del jazz, – es una de las figuras básicas de la evolución del ragtime al jazz- comenzó su carrera muy joven en los tugurios de New York y en su época, los pianistas tenían que arreglárselas ...
8 de ene. de 2016 · Many decades after James P. Johnson's death, his influence remains embedded in the playing of most jazz pianists. The early-20th-century musician's seminal work represents the cornerstone of jazz ...
31 de dic. de 2020 · But one event, surely to be overlooked, transformed the playing style of an entire generation of pianists and changed the course of jazz piano. On January 10, 1921, James P. Johnson joined the roster of the QRS Music Company. Recording technology then still relied on the acoustic method requiring musicians to play into a large input horn.
James P. Johnson, con Runnin’ Wild e la sua The Charleston, diventa così uno dei maggiori protagonisti dei ruggenti anni ‘20, scrivendone – di fatto – la colonna sonora. La salute, purtroppo, non è mai stata dalla sua parte: nonostante i problemi, comunque, il nostro non smise mai di esibirsi anche nel corso del decennio successivo .
Scott E. Brown’s James P. Johnson : A Case of Mistaken Identity (Metuchen, NJ and London : Scarecrow Press/Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, 1986), is the only book-length work on Johnson to date. Tom Davin’s series of “Conversations with James P. Johnson,” published posthumously in The Jazz Review (1959–1960) and cited by month below, are invaluable.
James P. Johnson. Fue un pianista y compositor de jazz norteamericano. Inspirado por el blues y el ragtime creó una forma innovadora de tocar el piano caracterizada por una gran movilidad y mucho swing conocida como stride. Nació en 1891 en New Brunswick con el nombre de James Price Johnson.Debutó profesionalmente en 1912 y durante los años ...
