Latest Release
- MAR 25, 2024
- 23 Songs
- 1921 - 1926 (Remastered) · 1974
- Carolina Shout · 1988
- The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945: Piano Solos · 1996
- Fascination · 2008
- The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945: Piano Solos · 1973
- Blue Moods · 1973
- 1921 - 1926 (Remastered) · 1974
- Carolina Shout · 1988
- Carolina Shout · 1988
- Carolina Shout · 1988
Essential Albums
- 2014
- 2008
- 2008
- 1999
Artist Playlists
- A piano trailblazer who leaped between ragtime, jazz, and beyond.
Singles & EPs
- 2019
Compilations
- 2008
- 1991
About James P. Johnson
Active throughout the 1920s and '30s, the sophisticated and influential musician James P. Johnson synthesized many strands of black music--ragtime, blues, popular and sacred song--with his own original stride piano style. Though his young protege Fats Waller went on to popularize stride, Johnson was the masterly father of the style. The majority of his more ambitious works for symphony orchestra have been lost to history, due to the complete lack of respect shown black composers by the classical music world at the time.
- HOMETOWN
- New Brunswick, NJ, United States
- BORN
- February 1, 1894
- GENRE
- Jazz