Solo & display music

Table of Contents: “…Ossman) -- Hallay (Reuben Sarkisian) -- Drunken hiccoughs (Tommy Jarrell) -- Medley (Harmonica Duet) -- Two step de Eunice (Amede Ardoin) -- Pork and beans (James P. Johnson) -- Piano solo (Montana Taylor) -- Mainer's Jew's harp (J.E. …”


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Jazz piano I : a Smithsonian collection.

Table of Contents: “…Snowy morning blues ; The mule walk (James P. Johnson). Echoes of spring (Willie "the Lion" Smith). …”


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Blues. by Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958

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Trumpets in stride

Table of Contents: “…Louis toodle-oo / Ellington (3:57) -- Blueberry rhyme / James P. Johnson (3:37) -- Black botton stomp / Morton (2:36) -- After you're gone / Creamer, Layton (4:09) -- In the dark / Bix Biederbecke [i.e. …”


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The history of jazz the early days.

Table of Contents: “…Tiger rag, original Dixieland Jazz Band -- Keep off the grass, James P. Johnson -- Snake rag, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band -- Wild cat blues, Clarence Williams' Blue Five ft. …”


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Just friends

Table of Contents: “…/ by Irving Berlin -- Once and only once / by George Barrie and Sammy Cahn -- If I could be with you one hour tonight / by James P. Johnson and Henry Creamer -- Runnin' wild / by A. …”


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Electricity

Table of Contents: “…Hanson -- The "slice and dice" debate : FERC's evolving RTO policy / James P. Johnson -- Energy derivatives / David Adams -- Risk management for the regional utility / George Koeck -- Master agreements : the process behind the paper / Jean M. …”


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The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz. Vol. 1.

Table of Contents: “…Troy (Red Onion Jazz Babies) -- Blue horizon / Sidney Bechet (Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazz Men) -- Carolina shout / James P. Johnson (James P. Johnson).…”


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The Smithsonian collection of classic jazz. Vol. 1

Table of Contents: “…Troy (Red Onion Jazz Babies) -- Blue horizon / Sidney Bechet (Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazz Men) -- Carolina shout / James P. Johnson (James P. Johnson)…”


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Jazz, blues, boogie & swing for piano "the jazz of an era"

Table of Contents: “…Dizzy fingers; Kitten on the keys; Poor buttermilk / Zez Confrey -- Sister Kate; Cow-cow blues; Organ grinder blues / Clarence Williams -- Riffs; Carolina shout; Over the bars; Keep off the grass; Snowy mornin' blues; Eccentricity; Jingles; Modernistic / James P. Johnson -- Farewell blues; Ain't misbehavin'; Between the Devil and the deep blue sea; For me and my gal; Dinah; I can't give you anything but love; When you're smiling (the whole world smiles with you); How come you do me like you do; Star dust; When it's sleepy time down south; Never heard of such stuff; Broadway rose; A Japanese dream; Lonesome and sorry; Washboard blues; Black and blue; Bugle call rag / "Fats" Waller.…”


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Got the Saint Louis blues : classical music in the Jazz Age.

Table of Contents: “…Diton (3:14) -- Yamekraw : a Negro rhapsody / arr. by James P. Johnson ; orchestrated by William Grant Still (15:49) -- The chariot jubilee / R. …”


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Stride piano

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The history of jazz. The early days.

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Classic piano blues from Smithsonian Folkways

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Classic jazz piano.

Table of Contents: “…Jelly Lord (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Glad rag doll (Earl Hines) -- State Street special (Jimmy Yancey) --Honky tonk train blues (Meade Lux Lewis) -- Thou swell ; Romping (excerpt) (James P. Johnson) -- Smashing thirds (Fats Waller) -- Contrary motion (Willie "The Lion" Smith) -- Out of nowhere (Art Tatum) -- Where or when (Teddy Wilson) -- Daybreak serenade (Jess Stacy) -- Rosetta (Earl Hines) -- Honeysuckle Rose (Fats Waller) --Solitude (Duke Ellington) -- Tonk (Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn) -- Shine on, harvest moon (Count Basie) -- All God's children got rhythm (Mary Lou Williams) -- Erroll's bounce (Erroll Garner) -- Poor butterfly (Oscar Peterson) -- I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you (Lennie Tristano) -- Shaw 'nuff (Bud Powell) -- Concerto for Billy the Kid (Bill Evans).…”


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New York, 1922-1934

Table of Contents: “…I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate (Cotton Pickers)--Original Dixieland one-step (Miff Mole and his Little Molers)--Mississippi mud (Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra)--Makin' friends (Kentucky Grasshoppers)--Basin Street blues (Louisiana Rhythm Kings)--Beale Street blues (Lang-Venuti All Star Orchestra)--Junk man (Jack Teagarden and his orchestra)--Papa de-da-da (Clarence Williams' Blue Five)--Sugar foot stomp (Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra)--The creeper (Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra)--Harlem River quiver (Duke Ellington and his orchestra)--You can't do what my last man did (James P. Johnson, piano)--Harlem fuss (Fats Waller and his buddies)--Knockin' a jug (Louis Armstrong and his orchestra)--It should be you (Henry All and his New Yorkers)…”


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Ralph Sutton at Café des Copains. by Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001

Table of Contents: “…Lewis, Joe Young (5:11) -- You can depend on me / Earl Hines, Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap (4:28) -- Poor butterfly / Raymond Hubbell, John Golden (3:28) -- Snowy morning blues / James P. Johnson (4:17) -- Russian lullaby / Irving Berlin (4:47) -- Sweet Sue / Victor Young, Will J. …”


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The art of jazz : essays on the nature and development of jazz

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prologue : Sidney Bechet in Europe, 1919 / Ernest Ansermet -- Sonny Terry and his blues / Marshall Stearns -- Ragtime / Guy Waterman -- Jelly Roll Morton and the Frog-i-more Rag / William Russell -- King Oliver's creole jazz band / Larry Gushee -- James P. Johnson / Ross Russell -- Dixieland / Orrin Keepnews -- Bix Beiderbecke / George Avakian -- Bessie Smith / George Avakian -- Recording limits and blues form / Martin Williams -- Three boogie-woogie blues pianists / William Russell -- Big Maceo / Paul Oliver -- Duke Ellington in the nineteen-thirties / Charles Fox -- Duke Ellington / Vic Bellerby -- Billie Holiday / Glenn Coulter -- The genius of Art Tatum / Andre Hodeir -- Charlie Christian / Al Avakian -- Bebop / Ross Russell -- Two notes on modern jazzmen / Paul Bacon -- Looking back at the modern jazz quartet / Max Williams -- The funky-hard bop regresion / Martin Williams -- A basic library of jazz on LP -- Index.…”


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Live at Carnegie Hall. Vol. 1, 1938.

Table of Contents: “…Quintet) -- Four day creep (Ida Cox and Septet) -- Mule walk stomp ; Carolina (James P. Johnson) -- Cavalcade of boogie (Meade Lux Lewis) -- Mountain blues (Sonny Terry) -- The new John Henry (Sonny Terry and Bull City Red) -- It's all right baby (Joe Turner) -- Done got wise ; Louise, Louise (Big Bill Broonzy) -- What more can my Jesus do ; My poor mother died a'shoutin' (Mitchell's Christian Singers) -- Gospel train ; I'm on my way (Golden Gate Quartet) -- Weary blues ; I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate (New Orleans Feetwarmers).…”


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Fats Waller by Waller, Maurice, Calabrese, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…1864-1904 : The background of the Waller family -- 1914-1919 : Fats discovers Harlem nightlife -- 1919 : the death of Fats' mother -- 1920-1922 : Fats meets James P. Johnson and Willie The Lion Smith -- 1922-1924 : Fats marries Edith -- 1923-1924 : Fats and the music publishers -- 1924-1926 : Fats meets his second wife and Captain Maines -- 1927-1928 : Fats writes "Keep shufflin'" -- 1928-1929 : Fats writes "Load of coal" -- 1930-1931 : Fats becomes a recording regular for RCA -- 1932-1933 : Fats goes to work for WWL -- 1934-1936 : Fats makes it to the top as a composer and recording artist -- 1937-1943 : Buster Shepherd remembers the good and bad times -- 1940-1943 : Fats at his peak as a recording artist and songwriter -- Maurice remembers his father -- 1943 : the death of Fats -- Recording dates and personnel -- Fats Waller's published songs -- Fats Waller's unpublished songs -- Fats Waller's piano rolls -- Song arrangements.…”


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