曲目リスト

1. Harlem Strut
2. Keep off the Grass
3. Carolina Shout
4. Carolina Shout
5. Dear Old Southland
6. Bandana Days
7. Weeping Blues
8. Worried and Lonesome Blues
9. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
10. Bleeding Hearted Blues
11. Scouting Around
12. Toddlin'
13. Charleston (South Carolina)
14. All That I Had Is Gone
15. Snowy Morning Blues
16. Skiddle-De-Scow
17. Can I Get It Now?
18. Chicago Blues
19. Mournful Tho'ts
20. Riffs
21. Feelin' Blue
22. Put Your Mind Right on It
23. Fare Thee Honey Blues
24. You Don't Understand
25. You've Got to Be Modernistic

商品の詳細

• 発売日: 1996-05-14
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Best of, Import, from US

From Amazon.com
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. In Harlem in the 1920s, he reigned supreme as the king of the rent-party pianists, and the creative exuberance of that world comes through as authentically as it possibly can in these ancient recordings. 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. --Stuart Broomer

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