Duke Ellington in District of Columbia - the 1910's
from Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress, page 53:
He [Percy Johnson] had a player-piano and he put on a roll by James P. Johnson. This was, of course, an entirely new avenue of adventure for me, and I went back there every day and listened. Percy slowed the mechanism down so that I could see which keys on the piano were going down as I digested Johnson's wonderful sounds. I played with it until I had his "Carolina Shout" down pat, and then Percy would go out on the town with me and show me off.
cite as
Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress (New Jersey, 1973), p. 53. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1429000607332 accessed: 22 January, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| 'Carolina Shout' | performed by J.P. Johnson |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1910's |
| Medium | playback |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:36:47 +0100
Approved on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:10:57 +0100