Trombone Johnsen (1902)
A Ragtime Cake Walk
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Composer: E.J. Stark Suppliers: dbe15.gif
Editor: Geoff Grainger Sextet D/A/T/T+B/B/GB(B)
Publisher: Ditty Box Enterprises Publication: DBE 474
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Length: approx. 4½ mins. Sounds best with the treble, 1st tenor and bass doubled.
Trombone Johnsen is a fine, striding cake walk celebrating the cheerful gentleman with a perfect trombone playing posture shown on the cover of the original sheet music. Whether Trombone Johnsen was an actual historical personage, such as Kerry Mills's Impecunious Davis (1899) or Chas. L. Johnson's Doc Brown's Cakewalk (1899) et al, or merely fictional character providing a catchy title is lost in the annals of ragtime history of more than a hundred years ago. For those not in the know a cake walk was a dance developed from an Afro-American contest in graceful walking dating from the plantation and slavery days - a cake being the prize. A pre-cursor to ragtime, the dance took on many versions even to the extent of being adapted by high society in Paris.
Trombone Johnsen was published by Stark Music Co, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
A tempo of 150 crotchets/min. is suggested.
  Composer Sequencer
     
audiomidi15.gif E.J. Stark Colin McDonald
  Composer Performer Instruments
       
audiodbemp315.gif E.J. Stark Midi Ragtime Recorder Ens. D/A/T/T+B/B/GB(B)
     Performer CD Title Supplier
       
cd15.gif Alan Martin Everything is Ragtime Now flag15us.gif flag15de.gif
     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Trombone Johnsen (1902) E.J. Stark (music) Piano IMSLP wvicon.gif