This sheer joy ! American Red ,White, & Blue. Love movements 2 and 3 the most. This so much FUN ! Great performance. This is a real Diamond of Americana. I grew up hearing this kind of music on TV and on old cartoons. Its just sounds so familiar. I grew up in NYC and I'm 69 now. Makes me want get up and dance ! Uplifting !
❤❤❤❤❤ Wow How Music Is My Way Back in The 40,s From 2024 So Soothing To The Soul Reminds Me of Old Black & White Movies On the Floor Magnovox T.V. And Cartoon,s & The Wizard Of Oz ,,,2024 Still Fantastic James Johnson Was A Genuis . Wow Black History is Really Great!
Thanks for posting this brilliant work. An interesting side note is hat the third movement, Nightclub, is essentially a reworking of a much earlier piano rag called Innovation, which was never published but issued as a hand played piano roll
Conductor Marin Alsop has a long association with the Baltimore Symphony, as well as the Vienna Radio Symphony and Ravinia. My guess is that this might be from the BSO.
I'M DOING RESEARCH ON THE CHORAL MUSIC OF JAMES PRICE JOHNSON AND I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE CHORAL MUSIC... DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUE AS TO WHERE I MIGHT BEGIN?
I would imagine any library in Harlem would have old '78 recordings of his work. Also check out the archives at the Harlem Y if they have any. The Library of Congress should have these records judging by the glut of taxes we pay but I digress. Now the trick is to find a vintage record player. Good luck I'm chasing Waller, the thief Gershwin, Johnson and Blake for an historical fiction novel about the early stride players that goes off into the Life of William Grant Sill.
This sheer joy ! American Red ,White, & Blue. Love movements 2 and 3 the most. This so much FUN ! Great performance. This is a real Diamond of Americana. I grew up hearing this kind of music on TV and on old cartoons. Its just sounds so familiar. I grew up in NYC and I'm 69 now. Makes me want get up and dance ! Uplifting !
This is frickin fantastic...been looking for obscure jazz classical music and this is a gem. WOW!
❤❤❤❤❤ Wow How Music Is My Way Back in The 40,s From 2024 So Soothing To The Soul Reminds Me of Old Black & White Movies On the Floor Magnovox T.V. And Cartoon,s & The Wizard Of Oz ,,,2024 Still Fantastic James Johnson Was A Genuis . Wow Black History is Really Great!
Instantly captivated by April in Harlem on radio. Tried to guess the composer. My best guesses were Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Florence Price.
Eine wunderschöne Jazz Sinfonien. Es ist unglaublich, dass ein so begabter Komponist wie James Price Johnson nicht bekannter ist.
He is known quite widely as a jazz composer. The man who invented the stride playing tecnique.
SIE HABEN RECHT DRAUF. ANDERE KOMPONISTEN ERSCHEINEN VIEL ZU VIEL WIE ZUM BEISPIEL UND SEINE SO SCHOENEN SYMPHONIEN
1 - Subway Journey - 0:00
2 - April in Harlem - 3:56
3 - Night Club - 11:41
4 - Baptist Mission - 15:24
A great piece of music. It’s so cinematic.
Great piece, and the 2nd movement ("April In Harlem") is pure beauty. A masterwork by the great master James P.
fantastic
Thanks for posting this brilliant work. An interesting side note is hat the third movement, Nightclub, is essentially a reworking of a much earlier piano rag called Innovation, which was never published but issued as a hand played piano roll
Thanks for this - they played one of the movements on Radio 3 this morning and I'd never heard of James P Johnson, but now completely hooked!
Awesome raw talent !!!
Conductor Marin Alsop has a long association with the Baltimore Symphony, as well as the Vienna Radio Symphony and Ravinia. My guess is that this might be from the BSO.
Quel plaisir!
Génial !
I just discovered this upload. Wonderful treat! Thanks for this!
If you like this check out The River Suite by Duke Ellington.
Thank you very much for sharing this!
He Also wrote other classical pieces. An Opera inclusive.
Is this a modern performance? The audio sounds too good to be from the 1930s.
Yes, it’s a 1994 recording.
I'M DOING RESEARCH ON THE CHORAL MUSIC OF JAMES PRICE JOHNSON AND I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE CHORAL MUSIC... DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUE AS TO WHERE I MIGHT BEGIN?
I would imagine any library in Harlem would have old '78 recordings of his work. Also check out the archives at the Harlem Y if they have any. The Library of Congress should have these records judging by the glut of taxes we pay but I digress. Now the trick is to find a vintage record player. Good luck I'm chasing Waller, the thief Gershwin, Johnson and Blake for an historical fiction novel about the early stride players that goes off into the Life of William Grant Sill.
The manuscripts are all at the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Very nice librarians happy to help.
Where can I get the sheet music? Score and parts?
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