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Stride! : Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and all the other ticklers

Title: Stride! : Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and all the other ticklers / John L. Fell and Terkild Vinding.
Author: Fell, John L., 1927-
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press ; [New Brunswick, NJ] : The Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Vinding, Terkild.

Description

xvi, 237 pages : music; 22 cm.

Summary

Stride! traces the stride piano style from its roots in minstrel shows and ragtime, through the contributions of itinerant entertainers, to its joyful birth in Harlem, where it became known as Harlem Piano. With its speakeasies, nightclubs, and rent parties, Harlem provided a setting in which hot-blooded stride could blossom. The development of stride spans a period from World War I to the depression years, and younger players maintain its traditions today.
It is a musical style marked by friendly rivalry and shared pleasures. Stride! provides a carefully documented, accurate, yet colorful account of that world and the players at the origin of stride piano.

Series Statement

Studies in jazz ; no. 31

Uniform Title

Studies in jazz ; no. 31.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Foreword / Dan Morgenstern -- 1. Dancing into Jazz -- 2. Before Stride -- 3. Raggin' the Scale -- 4. The Birthing -- 5. Shoutin' in the Amen Corner -- 6. Stride Right -- 7. Buffet Flat -- 8. Ticklers: Ragtime and Popular Song -- 9. Eubie Blake (1883-1983) -- 10. Luckey Roberts (1887-1968) -- 11. James P. Johnson (1894-1955) -- 12. Bluin' the Rags -- 13. Hank Duncan (1894-1968) -- 14. Willie "the Lion" Smith (1897-1963) -- 15. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) -- 16. Cliff Jackson (1902-1970) -- 17. Earl Kenneth "Father" Hines (1905-1983) -- 18. Donald "the Lamb" Lambert (1904-1962) -- 19. Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) -- 20. William "Count" Basie (1904-1984) -- 21. Joe Sullivan (1906-1971) -- 22. Joe Turner (1907-1990) -- 23. Art Tatum (1910-1956) -- 24. Johnny Guarnieri (1917-1985) -- 25. Perfunctory Stride -- 26. Ralph Sutton (1922-) -- 27. Dick Hyman (1927-) -- 28. Dick Wellstood (1927-1987) -- 29. Coda --
App. 1. Clubs, Theaters, and Ballrooms -- App. 2. The Compositions of Luckey Roberts -- App. 3. The Compositions of Willie "the Lion" Smith -- App. 4. Facsimile of Earl Hines's Funeral and Memorial Service Program -- App. 5. The Compositions of Fats Waller.

ISBN

0810835630 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98030579

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries