Carolina Shout
Context
A showpiece by pianist James P. Johnson, cut in New York in 1921, it is one of the very first jazz piano solos ever recorded. Its difficulty made it a test piece for stride pianists: Duke Ellington and Fats Waller learned it note for note from Johnson's QRS piano roll. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2020.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Stride (Harlem piano). Among the origins and influences of Stride: Ragtime.