![]() ![]() Had become extremely popular everywhere during the first decade, and even so That was rapidly becoming a black ghetto) did not have a musical cultureīased on brass bands but rather one based on the piano, an instrument that Jazz music appropriated the instruments that were popular in the community, The "miniature syncopated rhapsody" for piano and orchestra Whistlin' Pete (1941). He also composed classical music: a three-movement Spanish Suite (1939), and ![]() ![]() His most famous and difficult tune was Ripples of the Nile (1912), reworked as Moon Light Cocktail (may 1942) for Glenn Miller. He was the first Harlem pianist to be published ( Junk Man Rag, 1913)Īnd recorded (october 1916). The "founder" of the New York school of pianists. Those were the years when "stride" piano came into its own.Ĭharles "Luckey" Roberts was in many ways parties meant to raise money to pay rent, that becameĮxtremely popular after the end of World War II among poor black tenants of They authentic black-piano experience (and innovation) moved to the So those clubs (and their performers) began to cater to Harlem was invaded by the white tourists, who came to check out the exotic In the 1920s, following the vogue of blues music, The black ghetto of New York, where an entire subculture of night-clubs forīlack people was booming. When the summer season was over, most of these pianists would move to Harlem, Willie "The Lion" Smith and James Johnson (1914) from New York. Pianists who performed in Atlantic City includedĮubie Black from Baltimore (from 1906), Luckey Roberts from Philadelphia, That was the city where pianists from all over the country convergedĭuring the summer to entertain the guests of the various establishments of The place where the synthesis took place might actually have been Atlantic The sound that resulted from that fusion was dense and loud, and came to New York's jazz pianist began to blend blues and ragtime. In 1920,Īs the 25-year old fad of ragtime was beginning to wane and the blues was The dramatic transformation of piano playing that took place as jazz migratedįrom New Orleans to Chicago to New York, the capital of ragtime. One of the most significant innovations in the early history of jazz music was New York: Stride piano TM, ®, Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved. (You can also listen to a playlist of this chapter) ( These are excerpts from my book "A History of Jazz Music") All rights reserved.Īll photographs are property of the label/agency that provided them See also the The History of Rock Music and A History of Jazz Music A history of Jazz Music ![]()
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