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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:
Original Blues by Claude Bolling
Original Ragtime/Original Boogie Woogie/Original Piano Blues by Claude Bolling
Ragtime Bolling & Boogie by Claude Bolling
Hooked on Ragtime - Vol. 1 by Dave Dallwitz
Hooked on Ragtime - Vol. II by Dave Dallwitz
World's Greatest Piano Rags by Richard Dowling
The Art of the Rag by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards
A Ragtime Sampler by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards
The Two Sides of Perfessor Bill by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards
It's a Rouser by Evergreen Ragtime Trio
Leaving Our Mark by Firehouse Stompers
Last Time Rag: Joplin - Morton et al by Marco Fumo
Bucktown in the 90's by Scott Kirby
George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 04 by George Lewis
George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 05 by George Lewis
Live at the Jug Club by Paul Lingle
They Tore My Playhouse Down by Paul Lingle
American Piano Vol. 3: Rags and Other Riches by Alan Mandel
Honky Tonk Piano by Various Artists
Piano Music In America 1900-1945 by Various Artists
Kitten on the Keys by Guido Nielsen
Grace and Beauty by New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
Live at Illiana by Butch Thompson
Virginia's Favorites by Trebor Jay Tichenor
Syncopated Musings: Classic Piano Rags and Ragtime Waltzes by Bryan Wright
Magnetic Rags: Ragtime for Brass by Avatar Brass Quintet