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Extractions: NEW ENTRY: Revised April 3, 2005 Below are more than 360 index entries for the potted biographies of musicians, entertainers, and record executives that can be found in the various pages on the Red Saunders Research Foundation In some cases, we lack basic biographical information on an individual, but because we may provide extensive career information, some of it found in no other source, we feel the entry is worthy of being indexed. This is not an index of every act or musician who is named in the RSRF pages. That would require far too many entries and would not be helpful to the researcher. Rather, the index covers only those individuals and acts who are covered in sufficient length to be worthy of a trip. We do not deem a one or two sentence mention on an artist sufficient for inclusion in the index, but a small paragraph on the act constitutes a potted biography in our view and is indexed. Generally, if the act is a vocal group or band, and we provide the names of the members and details on one or more sessions we will index it. Abner, Ewart Jr
The Boogie Woogie Beat: Rompin' Stompin' Rhythm Dick Hyman This week, our good friend and frequent Riverwalk guest pianist DickHyman (left) camera.gif (1250 bytes) jimmy yancey biography and photo http://www.riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/boogiewoogiebeat.htm
Extractions: Above: Cow Cow Davenport. Photo: Red Hot Jazz Archive This week, Riverwalk celebrates the rompin', stompin' rhythms of the boogie woogie beat and pays tribute to the early masters of the style: piano players with "a left hand like God." They had names like "Stavin' Chain," "Kid Stormy Weather," "Porkchops," "Skinny-Head Pete," "Papa Lord God," "Slamfoot Brown," and "The Toothpick." There were several "Pine Tops." They were one-man bands, and they all played a similar style of blues piano with a heavy left hand and a walking bass. Cow Cow Davenport is often credited with coining the term "boogie woogie." By the time Davenport came on the scene, the style had been around for more than 30 years, but no one ever called it "boogie woogie." This unmistakable "rolling bass" style of piano playing had a different name in every part of the country: "overhand," "the fives," "fast Texas piano," "hop scop," the "dirty dozens," the "sixteens," or the "rocks." The inventors of the boogie woogie beat coaxed music out of honky tonk pianos: old uprights mildewed from perpetual humidity and the occasional Saturday night beer bath. They were the stars of barrelhouse joints in the backwoods of east Texas and Louisiana. They played in shacks with dirt floors that sold Royal Crown cola, homemade booze and good times every night of the week. Barrels of chock beer and moonshine whiskey lined the walls and gave these dives (and the piano style they spawned) their name: "barrelhouse."
JAZZ ME NEWS FOR JANUARY 2002 The Jim Cullum Jazz Band Jazz pianist Ralph Sutton died at his home near Denver, CO on December 30, Morton, Cow Cow Davenport, jimmy yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, http://www.riverwalk.org/JMN/Archive/text/jazz me news for january 2002.txt
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Extractions: Home Articles Archive Banners ... Store As described by Chris Siebert, pianist for the Lavay Smith Band "The difference between barrelhouse and boogie woogie (as I see it anyway) goes something like this": 1. Barrelhouse Piano Describes a wide variety of African-American piano styles that were played in the early part of this century. Based primarily on the blues, but also influenced by ragtime and popular songs, these styles could be described as "folk music", and were not as sophisticated, in certain ways, as ragtime or early jazz. In other ways, they were much more complex and exciting. The following quote is from Eric Kriss, who has a book called "Barrelhouse and Boogie Piano": Some good examples of barrelhouse piano, which is practically synonymous in my mind with "early blues piano", would include players that are found in the blues section of the record store: Jimmy Yancey, Roosevelt Sykes (a great singer, too!), Cow Cow Davenport, Little Brother Montgomery, Leroy Carr, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Peetie Wheatstraw, Montana Taylor, and many lesser known players with colorful names such as Drive 'em Down, Toothpick, Game Kid, and Burnt Face (these last names again come from Eric Kriss's book). There are several compilation records, particularly on Yazoo records, that focus on these styles of piano. I highly recommend "Barrelhouse Blues, 1927-1936" on Yazoo if you're interested. The first thing you'll notice, other than the fact that this is great party music, is that this music is incredibly complex. Each player has his own distinct style, and there is an infinite number of variations and ideas. As usual, music thought of as "primitive folk music" turns out to be incredibly sophisticated, and basically impossible to write out in Western music notation.
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Extractions: BOOGIE WOOGIE Ragtime was generally played as written from the sheet music, and was therefore not regarded as a jazz form. It is not true that Scott Joplin was composing a waltz when he had an attack of the hiccups and ragtime was invented! The style evolved through the Minstrel shows of the 1800s and later the Cakewalk. The Cakewalk started out as a social dance, originating in Florida in the 1880s, where couples would prance with a high-spirited strutting step side-by-side to jig-like banjo and fiddle music which was popular at the time. Rich plantation owners would present a prize to the best couple. Eventually the prize became a cake hence the Cakewalk. From Florida, the dance spread all over America. The music was syncopated hence its association with Ragtime. Scott Joplin known as "The King of Ragtime" - was writing marches and waltzes up to 1899 when he composed his first Ragtime piece Original Rags. He had taken five themes from various folk songs and put them together to form a complete piece. Soon afterwards, the Maple Leaf Rag followed and was to become his biggest hit it sold over a million copies of sheet music. The big three of Ragtime were Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb. A typical composition would consist of four sections, each of 16 bars. The right hand would syncopate while the left hand played a "boom-chick" (also known as oom-pah!). The origin of the word Ragtime is unknown, although a newspaper article in 1888 referred to a piece of music as having ragged time (said quickly it becomes Ragtime).
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Extractions: JOHN FARRELLS MIDI PAGE For many years I have been making 88-note jazz piano rolls and have transcribed a considerable number of recordings by the great jazz pianists for use as source material. You can purchase them here and listen to them in the MIDI file section of this page - details of current offerings are below. ARCHIVED ROLLS - Most of the rolls I have released in past years have been archived and are available at a small extra cost, click here to view the extensive list of titles. You can request a complete list of our archived rolls to be emailed to you here Printed piano sheet music of the roll arrangements is also available for purchase here. Click to go to piano rolls Click to go to archived piano rolls Click to go to MIDI files Click to go to sheet music PIANO ROLL SECTION The rolls are manufactured in the United States from where orders are shipped to customers. Here are the latest releases on the JAM label, each one priced at $15. Click on the title to hear a part of the roll : JAM 231 Sunday as played by Teddy Wilson, transcribed from his 1939 Keystone recording session.
Extractions: Finding a young boogie-woogie star in Lugano, Switzerland, seems about as likely as coming across a traditional Celtic quintet in Phoenix. But somehow the music of mid-twentieth century American juke joints made its way to Silvan Zingg, and we should be glad. Swinging along with jaunty bass-and-drums backing, Zingg nails every dizzying piano run with virtuosic skill and obvious glee. During his early schooltime, influenced by records of black Boogie Woogie masters Silvan Zingg began to play by himself the piano. When he was seventeen he officially appeared in the programm of the Blues Festival in Lugano as the youngest musician that have ever performed at this event.
100 Najboljih Korena Rock `n` Roll-a jimmy yancey (country singer/pianist) 46. The Charioteers (gospel/R B vocal group)47. Gene Krupa (jazz drummer) 48. jimmy Witherspoon (R B singer) http://www.muzickicentar.co.yu/liste/korenirnr.htm
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Extractions: "Sultan of Swing" Danny Stiles has been using the Charlie Barnet Orchestras ''Cherokee'' since he launched his venerable and long-running show Big Band Sounds in December 1969 on the now-defunct radio station WEVD. This 1939 classic was also the signature tune of the Barnet Orchestra and it helped catapult the band to the front ranks of the swing era. Saxophonist and band leader Charlie Barnet was among the most influential and popular musicians of the 1930s and 40s. Like Benny Goodman, he is credited for hiring many black singers and musicians as early as 1937, a time when other bands were segregated. His use of black performers kept his orchestra out of several hotels and ballrooms and was also likely the reason why he was never selected for any big commercial radio series. His hard-swinging arrangements were influenced by Duke Ellington, and because his arrangers were so well chosen and the music so well played, many of Barnets tracks retain a notable originality to this day.
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Extractions: Pianist Big Joe Duskin from Cincinnati was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1921, the son of a hard-core Baptist preacher. Joe's repertoire mixes blues standards with boogie compositions, pop tunes from the boogie era of the '40s, and originals such as "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a Girl Named Martha." Joe is an expressive and soulful singer who phrases his big voice with the same dexterity that he brings to the keyboard. While this material was recorded nearly twenty years ago, today Big Joe Duskin is still singing and playing in undiminished fine form and has recently appeared in France and at many festivals. Listen to some of the tracks!!
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Extractions: First Bluesmen on Record Boogie Woogie, or "barrelhouse" is a blues-based piano style in which the right hand plays an accompaniment figure that resembles a strummed rhythm, such as is typically played on the guitar or banjo in rural blues dances. This could be expressed as a walking octave, an open-fifth pounded out with a blue third thrown in, or even a simple figure such as falling triad (as in the work of Jimmy Yancey); the approach varies to the pianist. The style probably evolved in the American Midwest alongside that of ragtime, to which it is closely related. The earliest description of the style occurs in print circa 1880. Elements of boogie-woogie can be found prior to 1910 in piano works by such disparate figures such as Blind Boone, Luckey Roberts and the classical composer Charles Ives. The earliest recorded examples of boogie woogie are found on piano rolls made in 1922 by Cow Cow Davenport, and by the end of the 1920s dozens of boogie woogie pianists had recorded ranging geographically from Texas to Chicago.
100 Greatest Roots Of Rock Artists Larry Darnell (R B singer) 41. Paul Williams (saxophonist) 42. Leadbelly (folkbluessinger/songwriter/guitarist) 43. jimmy yancey (country singer/pianist) http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_roots.html
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Extractions: A pianist is a person who plays the piano reasonably well. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble , or accompany one or more singers or solo instrumentalists A performing classical pianist usually starts playing piano at a very young age, some as early as three years old. Many well-known classical composers were able pianists themselves; for example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Liszt Frederic Chopin ... Robert Schumann , and Sergei Rachmaninoff were all virtuoso pianists. Most pianists specialize in certain composer(s)'s music to some extent. Most western forms of music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of forms and styles to choose from, including jazz classical music , and all sorts of popular music Well-known OR influential classical pianists: Well known pop music pianists: See List of jazz pianists Well known blues pianists include: Ray Charles also jazz, and
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Extractions: Plowright and Hall also used the interviews in a fresh way, cutting together two different, but complementary descriptions of Yancey's old piano. Then suddenly we were in a baseball sequence: it wasn't until this neared its end that we learned that Yancey had been a groundsman at a baseball stadium. In the radio-documentary book of high crimes and misdemeanours , leavintg listeners in the dark for more than 1.26 seconds leads to serious audience fidgets and, if repeated, the certainty that they will switch off. You give information first, then illustrate it, so the convention insists.
Butch Thompson's Radio Show music by Jelly Roll Morton, jimmy yancey, New Orleans pianist Manuel Manetta, 11. At the Window. Chicago, December, 1943. jimmy yancey, piano. http://www.butchthompson.com/pages/radio.html
Extractions: THE SHOW AIRS MONDAYS AT 8:00 PM CST (0100 GMT SUMMER/0200 WINTER) AND THURSDAYS 8:00 PM CST ( 0100 GMT/0200 WINTER) Butch's weekly radio show is an ongoing tour of the early jazz tradition. Here's what you'll hear: Live piano music and commentary by Butch, who sits at the Steinway grand piano provided by the show's generous longtime sponsor, Schmitt Music.
