Latest Release
- 25 MAR 2024
- 23 Songs
- Blue Boogie: Boogie Woogie, Stride and the Piano Blues · 1998
- Blue Boogie: Boogie Woogie, Stride and the Piano Blues · 1998
- Carolina Shout · 1988
- "This Is Jazz" The Historic Broadcasts, Vol. 1 · 1996
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- 2016
- 2013
- 2010
- 2008
Singles & EPs
- 2019
Live Albums
About James P. Johnson
Active throughout the 1920s and '30s, the sophisticated and influential musician James P. Johnson synthesized many strands of black music--ragtime, blues, popular and sacred song--with his own original stride piano style. Though his young protege Fats Waller went on to popularize stride, Johnson was the masterly father of the style. The majority of his more ambitious works for symphony orchestra have been lost to history, due to the complete lack of respect shown black composers by the classical music world at the time.
- HOMETOWN
- New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- BORN
- 1 February 1894
- GENRE
- Jazz