James Reese Europe

violin, piano, conductor · 1880–1919 · Mobile

Born in Mobile (Alabama), James Reese Europe founded the Clef Club in 1910, whose orchestra played a program of Black composers at Carnegie Hall in 1912. Official bandleader for Vernon and Irene Castle from 1913, he led the "Hellfighters" band in France in 1918 and died stabbed in Boston in 1919.

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Styles

• Ragtime

Landmark tracks

• Castle House Rag (1914)

Sources

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