Record ID:
35994043 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 81139253
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1894-02-01
  • New Brunswick (N.J.)
Death:
  • 1955-11-17
  • New York, N.Y.
  • New York (N.Y.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Fields of activity:
  • Music
Occupations:
  • Pianists African American composers
Used for:
  • Johnson, Jimmy, 1894-1955
  • Johnson, James Price, 1894-1955
  • Johnson, James, 1894-1955
  • Johnson, Jimmie, 1894-1955
See also:
Notes:
  • His Jimmy Johnson's Boogie woogie ... 1943.
  • Brown, S.E. A case of mistaken identity, 1985 CIP prelims. (James P. Johnson, b. 2/1/1894 in New Brunswick, N.J.)
  • Int. dict. of Black composers, 1999 (Johnson, James (Price) (Jimmie; Jimmy); b. Feb. 1, 1894, New Brunswick, N.J., d. Nov. 17, 1955, New York, N.Y.)
  • Frog spawn [SR] p2010 container (Jimmy Johnson's Jazz Boys)
  • Wikipedia, Dec. 19, 2016 (James Price Johnson (Feb. 1, 1894 - Nov. 17, 1955), African American pianist and composer; a pioneer of the stride style of jazz piano, he was one of the most important pianists who bridged the ragtime and jazz eras, and, with Jelly Roll Morton, one of the two most important catalysts in the evolution of ragtime piano into jazz; he was a model for Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Johnson
  • Classic James P. Johnson sessions (1921-1943), 2015 booklet, page 22 (Lavinia Turner and Jas. P. Johnson's Harmony Seven; made recordings for PatheĢ in September 1921; aside from Johnson on piano, the other musicians in the ensemble are unknown; James P. Johnson's Harmony Eight; recorded for Okeh in New York City, December 5, 1921)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)436517
  • 000000999769
  • abv06111801
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC PPi-MA RPB UPB NN MeLeBNM
Authentication code:
  • kin