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	James P. Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
		Johnson's tune "Charleston" (which debuted in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild in 1923, although by some accounts Johnson had written it years earlier) became one of the most popular tunes and arguably the definitive dance number of the Roaring 1920s.
		He was a sensitive accompanist; Johnson often recorded with Bessie Smith, and was reportedly her favorite pianist.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_P._Johnson (324 words)

	James P. Johnson biography : albums : icebergradio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the 1920s (starting in 1921), James P. Johnson began to record, he was the nightly star at Harlem rent parties (accompanied by Waller and Willie "The Lion" Smith) and he wrote some of his most famous compositions.
		Ironically James P. Johnson, the most sophisticated pianist of the 1920s, was also an expert accompanist for blues singers and he starred on several memorable Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters recordings.
		Johnson, who was only semiactive as a pianist throughout much of the 1930s, started recording again in 1939, often sat in with Eddie Condon and was active in the 1940s despite some minor strokes.
	www.icebergradio.com /artist/6837/bomb_the_bass.html (294 words)

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		James P. Johnson, one of the founding fathers of the School of Jazz Piano, has left his earthly keyboard, but the music on the rack will live forever.
		Back during the heyday of ragtime piano (pre-1920), James P. had become a part of the famed "Harlem music scene," and was contributing to the distinctive Harlem piano style that differed melodically and harmonically from classic ragtime.
		James P. Johnson was one of the great jazz pioneers and his contributions take an important place among the jazz classics.
	stridepiano.com /bios/gen1/james_p.html (1330 words)

	Stifelman, Leslie. 1995. James P. Johnson: A Composer Rescued. CJAS (1:1). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnson was no mere tunesmith but rather a creative genius who gave birth to a keyboard-bending genre known as "stride piano." But Johnson's story didn't end there.
		Johnson's fate is not inexplicable, given the various biographical data printed about him.
		Johnson was the favorite accompanist of vocalists Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cjas/11/12.html (1935 words)

	A jazz giant's lost legacy: A U-M musicologist resurrects the long-forgotten blues opera 'De Organizer' by innovative ...
		Jazz historians and aficionados have always known that James P. Johnson, the father of Harlem stride piano, devoted much of his later career to writing orchestral tone poems, a piano concerto, a symphony and an opera.
		Johnson was a critical figure in early jazz history, as well as the composer of the '20s anthem "The Charleston." But Johnson also belongs to a constellation of early 20th-Century American composers intrigued by the cross-pollination of African-American idioms and art-music traditions.
		"Johnson was always cognizant of exploring fl culture and exposing it to a wider audience," she says.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/music/james1_20021201.htm (1663 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - James P. Johnson
		Known to his Harlem colleagues as 'The Brute', Johnson was the 'dean' of the New York school of jazz pianists who specialised in the style known as stride - derived from ragtime, but with more jazz timing and a repertoire of brilliant improvisational effects that were skilfully incorporated into almost every performance.
		Johnson's classically-inspired technique, his setpiece compositions such as Carolina Shout, and his mastery of the cutting contest or competitive jam session combined to make him the most revered of this group of players, that also included his contemporaries Willie The Lion Smith and Luckey Roberts, plus his pupil Fats Waller.
		Johnson led his own bands on record in the 1920s, made some important discs for the French critic Hugues Panassie in the 1930s (with trumpeter Frankie Newton), and recorded with many bands in the 1940s, including the house group on Rudi Blesh's radio show This Is Jazz.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/james_johnson.shtml (284 words)

	JOHNSON, James P. : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JOHNSON, James P. (b James Price Johnson, 1 Feb. 1891, New Brunswick NJ; d 17 Nov. '55, NYC) Piano, composer; a link between ragtime and jazz, the East Coast equivalent of Jelly Roll Morton; master and indeed virtual inventor of the NYC stride style of piano; inspiration of Duke Ellington and teacher of Fats Waller.
		Luckey Roberts was also an influence; Johnson was also associated with Perry Bradford and Clarence Williams.
		13 tracks by Johnson's Blue Note Jazzmen, others with Edmond Hall and Sidney De Paris groups, and eight solos which are among the finest solo jazz piano recordings ever made in any style; a limited edition Mosaic box incl.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/j/J60.HTM (508 words)

	Ragtime \| Stride \| Swing \| Novelty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James P[rice] Johnson (1891 - 1955) is considered to be the founding father of stride piano.
		Although Fats Waller and Willie "The Lion" Smith shared in the early development of the genre, Johnson was responsible for its seminal beginning.
		Other Johnson compositions, such as "Snowy Morning Blues", can be found on John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Page.
	members.aol.com /midimusic/johnsonbio.html (195 words)

	Classical Net Review - Johnson - Victory Stride, etc.
		James P. Johnson has secured a place in jazz history as one of the great piano players and composers.
		Johnson led a dance band and even penned that anthem of the Twenties, "Charleston," from a fl review called Runnin' Wild, which afficionados will recognize as the title of another fine tune from that era.
		Johnson also never really figured out how to use strings as inventively as he used brass and wind, a failing common to many jazz composers and arrangers.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/m/mcc67140a.html (991 words)

	James P. Johnson (1894-1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here is what Ross Russell wrote of James P.'s early training: "His mother, a fair amateur musician, taught him to play a rag on the parlour upright as soon as he was old enough to manipulate the keys.
		At the age of nine, James P. was apprenticed to a local piano teacher for regular lessons.
		James P. Johnson is considered the "Father of the Stride", and was a major influence many of jazz's great pianists.
	www.geocities.com /hamo_2000/jpj.htm (1237 words)

	Johnson, James Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Despite little recognition and limited encouragement, James P Johnson would write two symphonies, a piano and a clarinet concerto, two ballets, two one-act operas and a number of sonatas, suites, tone poems and a string quartet.
		Johnson was and remains a giant, but his dark skin and a bashful temperament cost him the shameful oblivion to which he has been confined.
		In the 1940s Johnson himself recorded the piano version for Folkways, but the low quality of the recording equipment did not do justice to this rhapsody, which is therefore here documented for the first time in a proper way.
	chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com /Johnson.html (1108 words)

	News and Events: Archive: IJS Receives Archives of Composer/Pianist James P. Johnson (Rutgers University Libraries)
		Among the many rarities are three scrapbooks believed to have been assembled by Johnson or his wife, Lillie Mae Wright, a former tap dancer under the name of Lillian Hughes and one of the first American fl women to appear in motion pictures.
		Johnson was also a prolific composer of symphonic works such as Yamekraw-A Negro Rhapsody which was premiered in Carnegie Hall in 1928.
		Johnson continued to play and compose into the early 1950s, when he was slowed by a stroke.
	www.libraries.rutgers.edu /rul/news/04/07_james_johnson.shtml (866 words)

	Johnson, James P. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		A founder of the stride piano style, U.S. musician James P. Johnson was a crucial figure in the transition from ragtime to jazz.
		Johnson, James P. A founder of the stride piano style, U.S. musician James P. Johnson was a crucial figure in the transition from ragtime to jazz.
		Two years later Johnson, a Democrat, was elected to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacancy left by the death of James P. Buchanan.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9327654?tocId=9327654 (789 words)

	James P. Johnson \| The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnson’s importance is such that no history can do justice to the subject without coming to terms with the man who mastered and developed so many piano styles while garnering the respect of the best of his peers.
		Johnson’s playing is precise and sophisticated; his compositional sense is pervasive in solos that unfold from an inward sense of structure.
		In short, James P. Johnson is who early jazz pianist had to come to terms with simply because in many ways his commanding presence was the mainline of early jazz piano.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r1201_105.htm (448 words)

	James P. Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James Price Johnson was born on February 1, 1894 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
		James combined elements of ragtime, blues, popular music, ring-shout dance rhythms and his own inimitable style to create the first distinctive jazz piano style, Harlem Stride.
		James P. Johnson died in New York city on November 17, 1955.
	multirace.org /firstday/first4.htm (201 words)

	The Harlem Strut by James P. Johnson
		This piece was recorded in the early 1920's by one of the founding fathers of stride piano, James P.Johnson.
		Called ragtime or eastern ragtime at the time it was being created, eventually this style became known as stride piano, referring to the rapidly moving left hand.
		Johnsons star piano pupil Thomas "Fats" Waller went on to popularize this idiom, which remains a part of the jazz piano vernacular.
	www.marktempletonmusic.com /harlemsc.html (81 words)

	Oldies.com : James P. Johnson
		Johnson was adept in ragtime, blues, and all the popular musical forms of the day.
		By the early 20s Johnson was a leading light on New York's burgeoning jazz scene and was already known for his compositions, including "Carolina Shout', which demanded virtuoso technical ability.
		James P. Johnson was the King of stride pianists in the '20s.
	family.oldies.com /artist/view.cfm/id_736.html (292 words)

	James P. Johnson
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.redhotjazz.com /jpjohnson.html (403 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: The Original James P. Johnson, [Best of] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Johnson's ambitions to mount an indigenous concert music, one melding jazz and ragtime rhythms with classical forms, were frustrated, you'd never know it from these vibrant performances of "Yamekraw--A Negro Rhapsody," "Jazzamine Concerto," and a fragment from "Jungle Drums." The 1996 CD issue includes eight previously unissued tracks.
		The great stride pianist James P. Johnson is heard on 14 of the 16 selections included on this LP, taking memorable piano solos; two of the selections ("Memphis Blues" and the first take of "Sweet Lorraine") are actually by an uncredited Cliff Jackson.
		James P. Johnson is one of the most influential and neglected figues in 20th century American music.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001DM5 (730 words)

	Jazz Roots: James P Johnson
		Johnson's piano playing is wonderful jazz; he was a "tickler" whose style did not have quite the exuberance of Fats Waller, but made up for it with shades of Art Tatum's complexities and Monk's phrasing.
		James Price Johnson was born in New Jersey in 1894.
		Johnson, master and inventor of the style of piano playing called stride, was considered the best piano player on the East Coast in his prime.
	www.jass.com /jamesp.html (449 words)

	James P. Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James P. Johnson sirvió como mentor a las grasas Waller.
		Johnson se retiró permanentemente de la ejecución después de un movimiento severo en 1951.
		James P. Johnson en biografía de RedHotJazz.com con los archivos del espolón de muchos de los registros históricos de James P. Johnson
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ja/James%20P%20Johnson.htm (248 words)

	P Johnson - Cruises RU
		George P. Johnson Company is the leading full service event marketing agency.
		… The James P. Johnson Foundation For Music and The Arts is a non-profit … Licensing of select James P. Johnson material is available for specific use.
		… James P. Johnson was born in New Brunswick, NJ on February 1, 1894.
	www.cruises.ru.com /p-johnson.html (558 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: 1921-1928 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnson, most of which combine the strucure of Joplin with the entertaining goofiness of Waller.
		This is the first of eight volumes in the Classics re-issue of all James P. Johnson recordings released (mostly)under his own name.
		The final tracks are jazz band recordings featuring both Johnson and his pupil Fats Waller at the piano, exploiting the success they had as a duo in "Keep Shufflin'" on Broadway.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001NME?v=glance (643 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: James P. Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James P. Johnson (1894 - 1955) is one of the great neglected figures of 20th century American music.
		However, it also has some flaws: it is based largely on secondary sources, has little to say about Johnson's "serious" music (most of which was not rediscovered until after 1986), is unbalanced in its emphasis on the 1920s while neglecting Johnson's jazz revival in the 1940s, and offers only limited analysis of his recordings.
		For Johnson fans or those interested in the history of stride piano or in the New York jazz scene of the 1920s, this is well worth getting.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810818876?v=glance (650 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On James P. Johnson
		Johnson, whose piano rolls the young Waller slowed down in order to learn the pianist's fingering, heard Waller at the Lincoln and agreed to tutor him.
		He had been a mentor of Duke Ellington, who spoke of "the luxury of the Lion's fire, his harmonic lavishness, his stride." As the grandmaster of stride piano, James P. Johnson, said: "When Willie Smith walked into a place, his every move was a picture.".
		At the piano, sporting a derby and a jutting cigar, he exemplified James P. Johnson's description of orchestral Harlem piano: "full, round, big, widespread chords and tenths--a heavy bass moving against the right hand." And with Willie, there...
	music.surfwax.com /files/James_P._Johnson.html (1002 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Weldon Johnson (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Johnson was the first African American to be admitted to the Florida bar and later was American consul (1906–12), first in Venezuela and then in Nicaragua.
		In 1930 he became a professor at Fisk Univ., and in 1934 a visiting professor at New York Univ. He helped found and was secretary (1916–30) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
		He wrote songs with his brother, John Rosamond Johnson.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JohnsonJW.html (271 words)

	James P. Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnson, James P. (1894-1955), was an American pianist and composer.
		Johnson made important contributions to ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
		James Price Johnson was born in New Brunswick, N.J. As a youth, he studied classical piano, but he was also exposed to blues, ragtime, and show music.
	www.worldbook.com /features/aamusic/html/jjohnson.htm (178 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: James P. Johnson: A Case of Mistaken Identity: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James P. Johnson: A Case of Mistaken Identity: A Case of Mistaken Identity
		A biography and discography of James P. Johnson, whose musical career spanned the ragtime era.
		Scott Brown received a BA from Yale University, where he spent his senior year as a Scholar of the House working on James P. Johnson.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0810818876 (230 words)

	BluesTone "James P. Johnson" Rolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Folks, here is one of the last of the never-before-recut James P. Johnson composer-played rag rolls, and it's a smooth, tasty piece which appeared on a Biograph LP years ago along with a recording of James P. playing it in 1939.
		JPJ is probably second only to Jelly Roll Morton for the quality and quantity of great performances he recorded on piano rolls -- and these are among his best.
		James P.'s discographer Robert Hilbert lists these piano rolls among the very first Johnson recordings ever released, and they give us a taste of how James P. was playing piano in 1917 (his first phonograph recordings weren't made until October 1921).
	www.bluesrolls.com /Blues.JPJ.html (3008 words)

	JFLC - James P. Johnson Jubilee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They thought he was the greatest....I mean, everyone went to James P. Johnson to study.
		JAMES P. Vox: Marin Alsop: (Int #26 02 51:25)
		And what would have happened if he had gotten the break and people had heard his music?...Maybe James P. Johnson's name would be just as big as Gershwin's.
	www.jazzatlincolncenter.org /radio/scripts/jpjohnson.html (1038 words)

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