James P Johnson - Harlem Symphony, Concerto ‘Jazz A Mine’, etc
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Label: Nimbus
Cat No: NI2745
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 25th July 2011
Contents
Works
American Symphonic SuiteConcerto Jazz A Mine
Drums - A Symphonic Poem
Harlem Symphony
Victory Stride
Artists
Leslie Stifelman (piano)Concordia Orchestra
Conductor
Marin AlsopWorks
American Symphonic SuiteConcerto Jazz A Mine
Drums - A Symphonic Poem
Harlem Symphony
Victory Stride
Artists
Leslie Stifelman (piano)Concordia Orchestra
Conductor
Marin AlsopAbout
Johnson was the first black staff musician for the QRS piano roll company and favourite accompanist of Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters. As a composer, he scored all or part of at least 16 musical revues during the 1920s. Out of his 1923 Broadway production Runnin' Wild came the tune and dance most closely associated with the entire decade, the ‘Charleston’.
Of all his accomplishments, James P Johnson most wanted to be remembered as a serious composer of symphonic music utilizing African-American musical themes. Despite little recognition and limited encouragement, he wrote two symphonies, a piano and a clarinet concerto, two ballets, two one-act operas and a number of sonatas, suites, tone poems and a string quartet.
The pioneering jazz writer Rudi Blesh visited Johnson at his home a few years before Johnson suffered a paralyzing stroke. The composer was happy to show Blesh his scores and play some of the themes for him. Blesh later wrote about his private audition: ‘These are long works with a feeling of breadth and sweep and with a racial pungency that Gershwin missed, and their African rhythms move with a forthright nobility. One feels none of these qualities as borrowed—they all reside in the dark, diminutive composer himself.’
Contents:
- Victory Stride (1944)
Chris Gekker (trumpet) • Lawrence Feldman (clarinet) • James Pugh (trombone) • Leslie Stifelman (piano)
- Harlem Symphony (1932)
- Concerto 'Jazz A Mine' (1934)
For piano and orchestra
- American Symphonic Suite (1934)
Based on the St Louis Blues by W C Handy
- Drums: A Symphonic Poem (ca.1942)
- Charleston (1923)
Arranged by David Rimelis. Frederick Boothe (tap dancer)
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