Brochure, New York American: The Way to Reach the Moderns

"You’ve Got To Be Modernistic," James P. Johnson (1930)

James P. Johnson is, without question, the father of Harlem Stride piano. Harlem Stride piano playing evolved out of ragtime, with the left hand playing an alternation of a bass note on beats one...

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