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Table of Contents:

• Liza / George & Ira Gershwin
• Aunt Hagar's blues / W.C. Handy
• Sweet Lorraine / Clifford Bruwell & Mitchel Perish
• Jersey Sweet
• Yamekraw: a Negro rhapsody
• Daintiness rag
• The dream / Jesse Pickett
• The dream (alternate)
• Blue moods
• Keep movin'
• Woman blues
• Jazzamine concerto
• St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy
• Jungle drums
• Blue moods, Sex
• Euphonic sounds / Scott Joplin
• Twilight rag
• Snowy morning blues
• Snowy morning blues (alternate)
• Blues for Jimmy.

Author/Creator:

Johnson, James P. (James Price), 1894-1955 , performer

Contributors:

Burwell, Cliff, 1898-1976

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958

Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917

Pickett, Jesse

Main Work:

Piano music [of Johnson, J.P.] (Selections)

Related Works:

Sweet Lorraine [by Burwell, C.] (arranged)

Show girl [by Gershwin, G.] > Liza (arranged)

Aunt Hagar's blues [by Handy, W.C.] (arranged)

Saint Louis blues [by Handy, W.C.] (arranged)

Euphonic sounds [by Joplin, S.]

Dream [by Pickett, J.] (arranged)

Subjects:

Piano music (Jazz)

Performers:

James P. Johnson, piano.

General Notes:

"Twenty rare piano solos, many never before released."--Back cover.
Notes by David Cayer ("... jazz historian Grover Sales, writing in the early 1980s, described [Johnson] as 'the leading contender for the title of our most overlooked musical genius'.").
Previously issued as compact disc.
Program notes include bibliography and discography.
Recordings by Moses Asch, Asch Studios, New York; recorded 1943-45.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

689540575

Other Control Numbers:

sky234874746 (source: CaEvSKY)
73371 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP73371/glmu