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	Stride piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stride is a type of piano playing, used primarily in jazz.
		It was partially influenced by ragtime but is a jazz piano idiom, features improvisation, blue notes, and swing rhythms which its predecessor did not.
		Stride is one of the most difficult styles of jazz piano playing, takes years to master, and is often confused with other jazz piano where the left hand alternates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stride_piano (238 words)

	Harlem Stride (1921: Striding Ahead) \| The Chronicle of Jazz \| Abbeville Press
		It led to a brand of piano jazz referred to as the Harlem "stride" school, named after its principal center of development (the fl enclave of New York City) and the characteristic "striding," motion of its left-hand split chords.
		Stride pianists developed a formidable skill, especially impressive in the accuracy of their leaping left hands, and considered themselves to be the élite of the jazz world.
		The greatest of the first generation of stride pianists was undoubtedly James P. Johnson, universally known as "The Father of Stride Piano" and best remembered as the composer of the catchy "Charleston" (• p.
	www.abbeville.com /jazz/046.asp (491 words)

	Harlem Stride Piano (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stride influenced 20th Century pop music and was influenced by it, because its practitioners matured simultaneous and within Tin Pan Alley and plugged their own songs there.
		It is inaptly so called as the left hand tends to "stride" or alternate between the low section of the piano and chords around the middle of the keyboard.
		Proof of this is their habit of citing sheet music or recordings that have only superficial connection with stride, or are the least successful samples by the stride greats.
	www.mikelipskinjazz.com.cob-web.org:8888 /stridepiano.htm (1239 words)

	Balboafeet.com - A Day In the Life of a Jitterbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The term "Stride Piano" is usually used to describe a school of piano playing that flourished in Harlem between about 1915 and 1940.
		Stride, like Ragtime, often used left-hand bass patterns that alternated between a low bass note or 10th on the first and third beats of each measure, and a middle-register chord on the 2nd and 4th beats of each measure.
		Like stride piano, boogie woogie was a way for the wandering blues piano player to keep a roomful of people dancing without the benefit of a back-up band.
	www.balboafeet.com /articles/stride.php (1022 words)

	Piano Styles—Ragtime to Boogie-Woogie
		Stride players were often very proficient improvisers and used this in their performance.
		Stride pianist Art Tatum (1909–1956) is commonly believed to be the most versatile piano player in the history of jazz.
		Boogie-woogie is another piano style important in the evolution of jazz and came into prominence as early as the 1930s.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/007297642x/student_view0/chapter4 (959 words)

	PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY KEITH "MUZIKMAN" HANNALECK
		It is a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody and the left hand alternates between the bass notes on the strong beats and chords on the weak ones.
		Stride piano is one of the oldest styles of jazz piano, a sister of Ragtime, it flourished in the 1920s.
		The biggest difference between Ragtime and Stride piano playing is its emphasis on improvisation and the flexibility that allows a pianist to "stride" any piece of music.
	www.progressiveworld.net /simpsong.html (450 words)

	Jazz Styles: Classic Jazz: Piano Jazz
		Stride piano is an improvised and blues-based approach to ragtime.
		The stride pianist generally makes more liberal use of blues harmonies in his music than does the ragtime composer.
		Art Tatum was primarily a stride pianist, but he was a musician of such fantastic technique and harmonic invention that he has influenced countless pianists and other musicians of every generation.
	www.outsideshore.com /school/music/almanac/html/Jazz_Styles/Classic_Jazz/Piano_Jazz.htm (446 words)

	Stride Downloads - Download Stride Music - Download Stride MP3s
		Stride is a style of jazz piano playing in which the pianist's left hand maintains a continuous pulse in groups of four beats by percussively playing a bass note on the first and third beats and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
		[+] Continue Stride is a style of jazz piano playing in which the pianist's left hand maintains a continuous pulse in groups of four beats by percussively playing a bass note on the first and third beats and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
		Here is Fats cutting a hot piano solo at the age of 19, daring to play such stuff on the pipe organ a few years later, and incorporating both instruments into hot ensembles, resulting in some of the toughest records of the entire decade.
	www.mp3.com /stride/genre/552/subgenre.html (3011 words)

	A History of Jazz Music
		The three masters of stride piano were James Johnson, probably the "inventor" of the style, Thomas "Fats" Waller, who was by far the most commercially successful and probably the best composer, and Willie "The Lion" Smith.
		Stride pianist James Johnson was also one of the greatest composers of the era.
		He very much disengaged jazz piano from the formulas of New York's stride piano and of New Orleans, and opened up unlimited horizons for it, although he personally never ventured into the avantgarde, preferring to stick to his job of ornating the melody with a virtually unlimited arsenal of tricks.
	www.scaruffi.com /history/jazz3.html (1173 words)

	John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library - WHAT IS RAGTIME, NOVELTY & STRIDE? - Multimedia Presentation
		James P. Johnson was the prime innovator of stride piano.
		Using their piano roll tricks, they put together an extremely complex rhythmic and harmonic series of progressions which demanded the greatest technical skill to perform...
		The distinctive sound of the Novelty rag is a combination of the influence of the French Impressionists - Claude Debussey and Maurice Ravel - with contrasting rhythms as used by the roll arrangers.
	www.johnroachemusic.com /ragtime.html (1358 words)

	Stride Piano
		The term 'stride' comes from the action of the left hand which strides back and forth, playing a note or tenth in the bass followed by a chord in the middle register.
		James P. was known as the Father of Stride Piano.
		Ralph Sutton was the accepted 'king of stride' during the last 40 years.
	www.jazzpiano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /stride_piano.htm (581 words)

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	Ragtime \| Stride \| Swing \| Novelty
		Conventional wisdom has it that striding is largely a matter of playing a heavy oom-pah in the left hand, but conventional wisdom is mistaken, as usual.
		The feel of stride is a kind of soft-shoe 12/8 rather than the 8/8 of ragtime, and, although the left hand often plays oom-pahs, the total feeling is frequently an accented four-beat rather than the two-beat you might expect.
		Today, stride piano is in the capable hands of such people as Dick Hyman, Judy Carmichael, Mike Lipskin, Jay McShann, Ralph Sutton and John Gill.
	members.aol.com /midimusic/strdtxt.html (695 words)

	STEEBER MUSIC -- On STRIDE
		Stride piano is a form of musical exuberance which, once mastered, can become a musical way of life.
		What stride piano gives, for once, is the whole song -- the harmonies usually left out.
		It might be like applying soap and water and linseed oil to a darkened Flemish masterpiece for years until it is clean, never seeing the work in its entirety until one day, when the work is done, standing back, and aghast, seeing all the colors no-one had known were there.
	steeber.com /music/stride.html (399 words)

	Piano
		Yet, his laid-back contributions to the jazz piano canon demonstrate that his influence is wide and deep.
		A brief biography of the King of Stride Piano, as well as a list of midi files of Waller's most popular songs that can be purchased.
		You can find many piano rolls here that were transcribed from performances by some of the greatest jazz piano pioneers.
	www.jazzitude.com /piano.htm (242 words)

	Stride Piano.com - the only website completely dedicated to the art of Stride Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After studying piano formally Jackson turned to jazz, working in various east coast cities before coming to New York in the early 20s.
		A vigorous performer, early in his career Jackson was a leading stride pianist, greatly feared in cutting contests where he would happily take on much bigger names.
		One of the most powerful stride pianists, Cliff Jackson never became all that famous in the jazz world despite his talent.
	www.stridepiano.com /bios/gen1/jackson.html (340 words)

	James Price Johnson, African American Composer
		In jazz he was the foremost exponent of the stride piano style, and his composition Carolina Shout, recorded in 1921, became the test piece for younger musicians.
		The solo piano part amply illustrates Johnson's wide reach, with an abundance of stride piano left-hand tenths and extended right-hand excursions, all the while infused with the blues.
		Fumo teaches piano at the Conservatory of Castel Franco Veneto in Italy and is a specialist in the performance of African American piano repertoire of the jazz age.
	chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com /Johnson.html (1090 words)

	CD of stride piano solos by Henry thins Francis on Mephistopheles Records.
		Maybe, as “thins” remarks, stride piano is “a music of the past”, but you can have a grand reunion with it by listening to this CD, played by a master of the art.
		On this solo piano album, “Some Stride Piano Playing”, Henry thins Francis presents a unique mix of Fats Waller and Duke Ellington compositions, plus some tasteful pop songs and show tunes from the classic period (1920-1940) of American songwriting — rendered predominantly in the robust musical style of Fats Waller (hence the name “thins”).
		WILD CAT BLUES is a four-strain piano piece written by Waller in 1923 (at age 19) in collaboration with Clarence Williams.
	www.swinglegacy.com /cdstride.html (1715 words)

	Wedding Music Piano
		Stride has often been incorrectly characterized as fast ragtime or worse, associated with the old-time "silent movie music" cliché.
		In actuality, the expressive range of stride is much wider, and includes an introspective side often marked by a strong blues feeling.
		Stride Piano flourished mainly in Harlem during the 1920s and the 1930s.
	www.allegropianoentertainment.com /FAQ's.htm (886 words)

	Stride Piano.com - the only website completely dedicated to the art of Stride Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Welcome to stridepiano.com the only website on the net that is dedicated completely to the art of stride piano.
		This site is built and maintained by Grant Simpson and is designed to serve as a resource for all things "stride".
		If you feel that you would like to be a part of the Stride Piano Discussion Group, then please fill in the form below and once you are approved, you will be able to contribute, ask questions and learn from the top stride pianists in the world today.
	www.stridepiano.com (140 words)

	Amazon.com: Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929: Music: James Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		James P. Johnson was a key musician among those synthesizing a jazz piano style out of the elements of ragtime in the early decades of the century; he also played a part in the rise of the Charleston dance craze.
		An informal teacher of Fats Waller and Duke Ellington, Johnson was an absolute master of the stride technique of alternating bass notes and chords in the left hand, building tremendous energy with shifting syncopations.
		"Charleston (South Carolina)" is heard in a piano roll version, while there are both solo piano and band versions of Johnson's masterpiece "Carolina Stomp." The sound quality improves as the decade progresses, and the CD concludes with a lively band number featuring Johnson and Waller both playing piano in a group that included King Oliver.
	www.amazon.com /Harlem-Stride-Piano-1921-1929-Johnson/dp/B000000GCS (780 words)

	Ragtime \| Stride \| Swing \| Novelty (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wellstood is one of the modern giants of stride piano.
		A stride or ragtime "oom-pah" beat is usually played by the left hand as a single note (or octave or tenth) on the upbeat and a chord on the downbeat.
		Waller's understanding of the musical subtlties of other cultures, coupled to his absolute mastery of stride piano, resulted in a meisterwerk that is not so well known.
	members.aol.com.cob-web.org:8888 /midimusic/stride.html (1245 words)

	Piano Book & CD Sets
		There are plenty of primer level piano books available that are full of public domain folk tunes and nursery rhymes.
		Our intent is to provide quality arrangements of familiar jazz and stride standards that you'll want to learn.
		Piano veteran Lou Stein has recorded with musical greats Charlie Parker, Percy Faith, Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and others.
	www.gfmusic.com /piano6.html (455 words)

	Visualgui.com » Stride Piano
		Johnson was the father of stride piano, a style that requires the player to do it all (beat, melody and bass), and it is very hard to accomplish.
		One of Johnson’s stride masterpieces is “Carolina Shout.” It’s like a test for anyone who wants to play stride piano.
		My man Monk also came out of the Harlem stride tradition, but his style was full of angularity and outside standard sound of bebop.
	www.visualgui.com /?p=697 (420 words)

	Piano Forums at Piano World: Stride pedal technique
		Stride is where the left hand plays bass, and then moves up to play a chord, back down to bass, and then back up to chord, etc. So the left hand "strides" back and forth setting up a rhythm and a sound.
		When I was a kid the old-timers used to call stride piano “shout piano”, an agreeably expressive description, and when once I mentioned stride to Eubie Blake, he replied “My God, what won´t they call ragtime next?” Terms, terms.
		The feel of stride is a kind of soft-shoe 12/8 rather than the 8/8 of ragtime, and though the left hand plays oom-pahs, the total feeling is frequently an accented four-beat rather than the two-beat you might expect.
	www.pianoworld.com /ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=37;t=000316;p=0 (3429 words)

	CD Baby: GRANT SIMPSON: Stride and True
		Stride Piano is the music from the Roaring 20's to the sounds of swing
		The dynamism and exhilaration that defines solo jazz piano began with the great stride piano masters of the 20s and 30s.
		Grant's initial excitement and enthusiasm for the stride style has developed and flourished throughout his professional career and remains the focus of his creativity and performance.
	cdbaby.com /cd/grantsimpson (377 words)

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