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Robinson was raised in Chicago. A self-taught musician, Robinson's love for ragtime began in the 7th grade [5] His mother purchased a piano and he spent the next three years submerged in the self study of music. In 1988 Robinson took lessons with Theodore Bargman at the American Conservatory of Music in downtown Chicago.
Muggsy Spanier & His Ragtime Band are perhaps the first band of the late 1930s traditional jazz revival. [387] The most successful movie musical of the era, The Wizard of Oz, is released. [212] The partnership between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers has led to their mainstream fame, while establishing the basic format for the Hollywood dance ...
James R. Europe's 369th Regiment band generated great enthusiasm during its 1918 tour of France. [20] Ragtime was an influence on early jazz; the influence of Jelly Roll Morton continued in the Harlem stride piano style of players such as James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. Ragtime was also a major influence on Piedmont blues.
In 1914, Keppard's band performed in Canada, at the Pantages Playhouse Theatres in Winnipeg, the first ever jazz performance outside the United States. This was the beginning of jazz as an international art form, although the name jazz was still a couple years in the future, the band performing as a ragtime band at the time. [6] [7]
A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.
William Henry Krell was a Chicago band leader and composer whose other compositions included: Our Carter: A Beautiful Ballad (1893), with Silas Leachman; The American Girl Battle Ship March (1898) The Cake Walk Patrol (1895) Fighting Bob Evans (1898) A Dream of the Ball: Waltzes (1895) Finnigan Cadets (1898) The First Extra: Waltzes (1895)
Pastime Rag, No.1 (1913) Artie Matthews (November 15, 1888 – October 25, 1958) was an American songwriter, pianist, and ragtime composer.. Artie Matthews was born in Braidwood, Illinois; his family moved to Springfield, Illinois in his youth.
Terry Waldo (born November 26, 1944) is an American pianist, composer, and historian of early jazz, blues, and stride music, and is best known for his contribution to ragtime and his role in reviving interest in this form, starting in the 1970s.