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Eric Revis Quartet at the Jazz Gallery: Old-Time Rhythms
by Eric Benson
Eric Revis QuartetJazz GalleryNew York, NYAugust 28, 2009 I don't imagine the Eric Revis Quartet was assembled with reconciliation in mind, but to a hobbled veteran of the Jazz Wars--the squabbles and skirmishes over the music's boundaries that raged throughout the '80s, '90s, and early aughts--the lineup would look like an ...
Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
by David Rickert
Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz James Howland Hardcover; 360 pages ISBN: 978-0-472-11605-8 University of Michigan Press 2009 Ellington Uptown addresses the development of concert jazz, a largely neglected style that emerged near the beginning of the ...
Queens: Home of Jazz and Flushing Town Hall
by Greg Thomas
When most people think of jazz in New York City, Manhattan readily comes to mind. The “East Coast" stride piano style was developed in Harlem, where venues such as the Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, the Cotton Club and Minton's Playhouse presented the big bands and small groups of jazz lore. 52nd Street became known for its ...
The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Liza; Aunt Hager?s Blues; Sweet Lorraine; Jersey Sweet; Yamekraw-A Negro Rhapsody; Daintiness Rag; The Dream; The Dream (alternate); Blue Moods; Keep Movin?; Woman Blues; Jazzamine Concerto; St. Louis Blues; Jungle Drums; Blue Moods, Sex; Euphonic Sounds; Twilight Rag; Snowy Morning Blues; Snowy Morning Blues (alternate); Blues for Jimmy. (73:44)
James P. Johnson: The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos
by Mike Neely
The Original James P. Johnson goes a long way toward summing up the early history of jazz piano. The early jazz singer Ethel Waters stated, “ All the hits you hear, now as then, originated with musicians like James P. Johnson . . . the rest of the hot piano boys . . . just followers ...
