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Clarence Williams was an American jazz an artist and entrepreneur. He was born near New Orleans, the son of Choctaw Indian having Creole heritage. His father was a bass player and hotel owner Clarence Williams started his musical education performing in the family hotel and singing in the streets leaving homer aged 12 to commence a long career in jazz of which he claimed to be the first user of the word in printed sheet music. He was variously a piano player, prolific composer, recording artist and producer, agent, cabaret manager, publisher and enormously influential in the jazz world of his day.
Together with Thomas (Fats) Waller, Clarence Williams is credited with being the co-composer of Wildcat Blues (1923).
List of Clarence Williams's works.
Sheet Music:
Chris Barber on "Vol. 1-2 Band Box"
Sydney Bechet on "The Creole Prodigy"
Sydney Bechet on "Les Oignons"
Eubie Blake on "Memories of You" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Peter Bocage on "Peter Bocage with the Creole Serenaders and the Love-Jiles Ragtime Orchestra" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Claude Bolling on "Original Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Claude Bolling on "Original Ragtime/Original Boogie Woogie/Original Piano Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Chrysanthemum Ragtime Band on "Preserves"
"Perfessor" Bill Edwards on "The Two Sides of Perfessor Bill"
Handy's Memphis Blues Band on "W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
James P. Johnson on "Harlem Stride Piano"
James P. Johnson on "Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929"
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 "Parlor Piano Solos from Rare Piano Rolls" 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 "Those Irresistible Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
George Lewis on "George Lewis' Ragtime Band of New Orleans: The Oxford Series Vol. 07"
Paul Lingle on "Live at the Jug Club"
Johnny Maddox on "Back Home in Tennessee" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Johnny Maddox on "Dixieland Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "Boogie Woogie Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "Cotton Club: A Nostalgic Collection"
Various Artists on "The Hits of '22: Do It Again!"
Various Artists on "New Orleans Jazz"
Various Artists on "The Obscure & Neglected Chicagoans"
Various Artists on "Player Piano Memories" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "The Riverside History of Classic Jazz"
Various Artists on "That Devilin' Tune" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Various Artists on "Whiplash" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Jelly Roll Morton on "The Chronological Jelly Morton (1930-1939)" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra on "Creole Belles" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra on "New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra"
Willie 'The Lion' Smith on "Lion Roars: His Greatest 1934-44"
Muggsy Spanier on "The Great 16"
Stumptown Jazz on "On Track"
Wilbur Sweatman on "Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Butch Thompson on "Butch Thompson's King Oliver Centennial Band"
Butch Thompson on "Lincoln Avenue Blues"
Trebor Jay Tichenor on "Those Southern Blues"
Trebor Jay Tichenor on "Wild Flower Rag"
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 Waller: 1922-26"
Fats Waller on "Golden Greats"
Fats Waller on "Part 2 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down: The Early Years"
Fats Waller on "Low Down Papa" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Fats Waller on "Sugar Blues" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Lightnin' Wells on "Ragtime Millionaire"
White-Gresty Ragtimers on "Mugsy Remembered"
Clarence Williams on "Clarence Williams 1934-1937" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
Clarence Williams on "Whoop It Up! Volume 1: 1927-1929"
Canadian Brass on "Basin Street" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
The Olympia Brass Band on "Music of New Orleans"