Latest Release
- 25 MAR 2024
- 23 Songs
- 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
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- World Broadcast Recordings 1944 · 2024
- 2016
- 2014
Artist Playlists
- A piano trailblazer who leaped between ragtime, jazz and beyond.
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