In last article, we mentioned some famous musicians in that time, now we want to introduce them to you all, and want to show you some beautiful songs of theirs.
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943)
Fats Waller started to play the piano when he was six. When fourteen, he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater. Besides, within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos, Muscle Shoals Blues and Birmingham Blues, were recorded in October 1922; he was eighteen at that time.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974)
He wrote over 1000 compositions in his life time, and was a prominent figure in the history of jazz. His works included blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical.
Jelly Roll Morton (September 20, 1885 – July 10, 1941)
His composition "Jelly Roll Blues" was the first published jazz composition, in 1915. Morton was also notable for naming and popularizing the "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms.
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (23 November 1893 – 18 April 1973)
Willie "The Lion" Smith was one of the fathers of the stride piano style. During the 1920s he was a sort of underground figure, who gained a reputation as a hot piano player by providing the music for rent parties in the private homes and small clubs of Harlem.
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