A piano rollography is featured in a biographical tribute to a legendary figure in American music who has played a central role in the current jazz and ragtime revival
Includes: Daddy Won't You Please Come Home * Dixie Moon * Gee * I Wish I Had Someone to Rock Me in the Cradle of Love * Memories of You * Shuffle Along.
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 9 original compositions for piano solo transcribed by Terry Waldo. Book gives a complete essay of Eubie's career through photos, stories and music.
" "It was an unprecedented time for black musical theater, and this book captures all of the optimism and vibrancy of early twentieth century black performers and musicians.
Its influences were felt throughout the 1920s when "Shuffle Along" type musicals became all the vogue.
Presents a collection of ballads, show tunes, and other works written by black songwriters from 1895 to 1921.
A Musical History David A. Jasen, Trebor Jay Tichenor. The Joplin rage was further stimulated by the first complete recording of Joplin's works done by Dick Zimmerman (Murray Hill 931079). Its success spurred RCA to ask Dick Hyman to ...
The two men and a third, Herbert Elwell, took organ lessons and attended her classes. Boulanger was thirty-three and had been earning her living teaching harmony and counterpoint since she was seventeen. Fifteen years earlier, before ...