Ragtime Piano : SCOTT JOPLIN – ” The Entertainer ” (1902) Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Scott Joplin is considered the foremost composer of ragtime music. Many [More]
Written by Charles Fulcher in the mid twenties. Became a modestly popular song and played by several other orchestras including Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson.
Early Jazz 1920s: Paul Whiteman – Georgia, 1922 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra — Georgia, Fox-trot (W. Donaldson), Victor 1922 (USA; accoustic recording)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter) – Frank Sinatra (1956).
Pianist extraordinaire Art Tatum performs “Yesterdays” composed by Jerome David Kern and Otto Harbach. Art Tatum was a jazz pianist and virtuoso who was nearly [More]
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – The Gennett Sessions April 5-6, 1923 Gennett Recording Studio, Richmond, IN * The songs were taken from The Chronological [More]
Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 — August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. A native of Davenport, Iowa. [More]
“Singin’ thе Bluеѕ” is a 1920 jаzz соmроѕіtіоn by J. Ruѕѕеl Robinson, Con Conrad, Sаm M. Lewis, аnd Jое Yоung. It wаѕ rесоrdеd bу the [More]
The big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz, a style of music which became popular during the Swing Era from the [More]