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According to the Internet source given below, James Price Johnson was an American composer and pianist. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was taught by his mother studying classics and ragtime and was apprenticed to one Bruto Giannini, local piano teacher, at the age of nine. At just thirteen he began playing professionally in sporting houses progressing to rent parties, bars, and vaudeville. When World War I started he had a small band with which went touring and eventually toured England and Europe with two shows, "Dudley's Smart Set" and "Plantation Days".
An important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles along with such musicians as Ferdinand Morton, Art Tatum and Thomas (Fats) Waller. His style evolving from rags, stomps, and set dances became known as Harlem Stride or Shout Piano earning him the sobriquet as being the father of both.The composer of the jazz classic Charleston, he had a huge influence amongst his contemporaries such as Fats Waller, Count Basie, Art Tatum George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. All of them called him simply James considering him to be the best of them all.
List of James Price Johnson's works.
Websites:
JOHNSON, JAMES PRICE BIOGRAPHY by www.naxos.com.
Books:
[§] James P. Johnson by Scott E. Brown
Ragtime Music CDs:
William Albright on "Ragtime Back to Back" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Paul Asaro on "Parlor Piano Solos"
Sydney Bechet on "The Creole Prodigy"
Black Swan Classic Jazz Band on "Ragtime Revelry" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Mimi Blais on "Once Upon a Rag Time"
Claude Bolling on "Original Ragtime" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Claude Bolling on "Original Ragtime/Original Boogie Woogie/Original Piano Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Claude Bolling on "Ragtime Bolling & Boogie" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
"Perfessor" Bill Edwards on "A Ragtime Sampler"
Frederick Hodges on "Kitten on the Keys: Ragtime, Novelty & Stride Classics"
James P. Johnson on "Carolina Shout" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "Carolina Shout" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "Father of the Stride Piano"
James P. Johnson on "Harlem Stride Piano"
James P. Johnson on "Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929"
James P. Johnson on "Hot Piano"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1921-28"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1921-44"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1928-38"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1938-42"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1943-44"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1944 Vol. 2"
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1944-45" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "James P. Johnson 1945-47" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "King of Stride Piano 1918-1944" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "The Original James P. Johnson 1942-1945" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "Parlor Piano Solos from Rare Piano Rolls" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "Ragtime" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "Runnin' Wild (1921-1926)"
James P. Johnson on "Snowy Morning Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Sue Keller on "I Got What It Takes" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Sue Keller on "Kellerized"
Sue Keller on "Live in Kalamazoo" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Sue Keller on "Those Irresistible Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Scott Kirby on "Some Assembly Required" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "Boogie Woogie Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "Down Peacock Alley"
Various Artists on "From Ragtime to Jazz Vol. 3: 1902-1923" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "The Gods Are in the House" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "The Greatest Jazz, Blues and Ragtime of the Century" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "The Greatest Ragtime of the Century" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "Ragtime"
Various Artists on "Spirit of Ragtime"
Various Artists on "That Devilin' Tune" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Max Morath on "Real American Folk Songs"
Peter Muir on "Spontaneous Ragtime"
Palm Court Theatre Orchestra on "Down Peacock Alley" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
John Roache on "Syncopated Odyssey"
Marcus Roberts on "If I Could Be With You"
Butch Thompson on "Bethlehem After Dark" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Butch Thompson on "Butch & Doc"
Butch Thompson on "The Butch Thompson Trio Plays Favorites"
Butch Thompson on "Good Old New York 88's"
Charles Thompson on "The Neglected Professor"
Dave Tucker on "Meadow Lark" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Terry Waldo on "Ragtime Classics Vol. 2"
Fats Waller on "At the Piano" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Career Perspective 1922-1943" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Centennial Collection" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Classic Jazz from Rare Piano Rolls" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Fats & His Buddies"
Fats Waller on "Fats at the Organ" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller - Greatest Hits" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller at the Organ, Vol. 3: 1926-1929 [Brown Cover]"
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller: 1922-26"
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller: 1926-27" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller: 1927-29" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller: 1941" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Fats Waller: Portrait Vol.2"
Fats Waller on "Handful of Fats" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "A Handful of Keys" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "The Indispensable Fats Waller Vol. 9-10" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Joint Is Jumpin'" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "New York to Camden to Los Angeles: 1929-1943 [LIVE]"
Fats Waller on "The Very Best of Fats Waller" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "You Rascal You" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Brent Watkins on "The Heroes of Parlor Town - Volume 1" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Brass Music CDs:
Canadian Brass on "Ain't Misbehavin' and Other Fats Waller Hits"
Canadian Brass on "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)