Negro music in America; 31

Negro music and American. Negro music and American exploration of it and its impact on American culture. Here is your host for the series Tony look at Bach during the past few weeks we've listened to classical piano ragtime in writings that were composed and arranged for a band instrumentation. Today in a small way the numbers we play will straight the influence ragtime had on jazz. The rhythmic flow of rags became even more complex in the New Orleans environment of Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton on jelly rolls apart he added a walking bass and increase swing. My first two numbers are really one number Morton's composition grandpa's spells played by him as a piano solo back in 1923 and then as he recorded it with his red hot peppers in a victor session in 1926 in

1926 grandpa's bells had become hot jazz. The next two numbers represent a later development of Ragtime which in New York City became

known as house party or rent party or Harlem piano style. And actually it was a balanced blend of ragtime and more pronounced African rhythms. Fats Waller a brilliant pianist and bandleader and composers showed strong ragtime influence in his music. His first number as a piano solo the valentines dump composed and played for a victory recording session in 1929. That's when his band then plays squeeze me. It's a fine illustration of his music combined with his genius as an entertainer. Where

like you come on I get oh oh you know me. Man.

Next week we'll bring to you some great instrumental rags that will really illustrate how ragtime music strongly influenced jazz.

To grow music in America I was holding up a box presented transcribed by the SEIU radio network again next week as we continue our exploration of the negro and American music. This is the SEIU Broadcasting Service. This program was distributed by national educational radio. This is the National Education already own network.