FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!

James P Johnson: The Father of Stride Piano - Carolina Shout | Retrospective RTS4388

James P Johnson: The Father of Stride Piano - Carolina Shout

£9.96

In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day

Label: Retrospective

Cat No: RTS4388

Barcode: 0710357438820

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 5th November 2021

Contents

Artists

James Price Johnson (piano)
Bessie Smith
Ethel Waters
Sidney Bechet
Omer Simeon
Rod Cless
Henry ‘Red’ Allen
Vic Dickenson
Edmond Hall
Max Kaminsky
Frankie Newton
Muggsy Spanier
Fats Waller
Ben Webster
Pee Wee Russell
Rosetta Crawford
Sidney De Paris

Artists

James Price Johnson (piano)
Bessie Smith
Ethel Waters
Sidney Bechet
Omer Simeon
Rod Cless
Henry ‘Red’ Allen
Vic Dickenson
Edmond Hall
Max Kaminsky
Frankie Newton
Muggsy Spanier
Fats Waller
Ben Webster
Pee Wee Russell
Rosetta Crawford
Sidney De Paris

About

James Price Johnson (1894-1955) was the greatest pianist of the Harlem ‘stride’ school, a style he virtually invented. His early playing had an almost orchestral approach to the keyboard, showing ragtime, blues and classical influences within a muscular, percussive ‘stride’ sound. He taught Fats Waller and influenced Duke Ellington; in fact, he is only equalled by Earl Hines and Art Tatum as the supreme pianist in jazz history.

Retrospective’s Carolina Shout (the title of his most famous piano composition) offers a rounded portrait on two well-filled CDs of the “Father of Stride Piano”, from examples of his piano rolls and pre-electrical recordings through to a late outing with Sidney Bechet in 1949, September Song. There are 17 scintillating solos from Snowy Morning Blues to his magnificent Liza of 1945. He is a sensitive accompanist to Bessie Smith (Backwater Blues) and Ethel Waters (the risqué My Handy Man) among others. There are half a dozen wonderful trios and quartets, including those with clarinettists Omer Simeon and Rod Cless. Then a full score of great band items features a host of top jazz names, among them Henry “Red” Allen, Vic Dickenson, Edmond Hall, Max Kaminsky, Frankie Newton, Muggsy Spanier, Fats Waller and Ben Webster. Johnson was also a fine composer, writing no fewer than 23 of the numbers on Carolina Shout. These include such familiar hits as The Charleston, If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight and Old-Fashioned Love. In fact, the whole exuberant collection vividly demonstrates that James P. Johnson’s pivotal role in jazz history is joyfully beyond question.

Contents:

CD 1 (1917-1944)
1. Carolina Shout
2. Over The Bars (piano roll)
3. Bleeding Hearted Blues (pre-electric)
4. Preachin’ The Blues
5. Backwater Blues
6. Snowy Morning Blues
7. Willow Tree
8. Chicago Blues
9. My Handy Man
10. Daylight Savin’ Blues
11. Riffs
12. You’ve Got To Be Modernistic
13. Jingles
14. Dinah
15. Everybody Loves My Baby
16. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
17. Who?
18. Stop It, Joe
19. Hungry Blues (with Anna Robinson)
20. If Dreams Come True
21. The Mule Walk
22. Blueberry Rhyme
23. Old-Fashioned Love
24. Swingin’ At The Lido
25. Boogie Woogie Stride
26. Blues At Blue Note

CD 2 (1943-1949)
1. Blue Note Boogie
2. Blue Mizz
3. After You’ve Gone
4. I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling
5. Honeysuckle Rose
6. The Boogie Dream
7. The Dream
8. Ballin’ The Jack
9. Who’s Sorry Now?
10. The Love Nest
11. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
12. I Know That You Know
13. Keep Off The Grass
14. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
15. A Porter’s Love Song To A Chambermaid
16. Tishomingo Blues
17. Harlem Hotcha
18. Lorenzo’s Blues
19. Liza
20. Fast Blues
21. The Charleston
22. September Song

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here