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Artie Matthews (1888-1958)

According to the Internet source given below, Artie Matthews was an American ragtime and blues pianist, composer and educator. Born in Braidwood, Illinois, he was first taught by his mother and learned ragtime from two local pianists. After first playing in Springfield, he moved to St. Louis in 1908 becoming composer and arranger at Thomas Million Turpin's Booker T. Washington Theater. Whilst in St. Louis, he studied at the Keeton School of Music. He is credited as being the first to publish a blues, the Baby Seals Blues (1912); later his Weary Blues (1915) became a jazz standard. In the ragtime world he is best known for his inventive Pastime Rags, generally considered to be one of the greatest contributors to the genre.
Matthews moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1916 as a church organist. An early activist for equal rights he founded the Cosmopolitan School of Music, the first black owned and operated music conservatory in the USA. in recognition of his accomplishments and endeavours, he was warded an honorary doctoral degree by Central State University in 1938.
List of Artie Matthews's works.

Sheet Music:

1. [§] Pastime Rag No. 1 (1913), Descant+Sopranino/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
2. [§] Pastime Rag No. 2 (1913), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
3. [§] Pastime Rag No. 3 (1916), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
4. [§] Pastime Rag No. 4 (1920), Descant/Treble/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass
5. [§] Pastime Rag No. 5 (1918), Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)