Zez Confrey - Coaxing the Piano (video)

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Zez Confrey appeared on the American "pop" music scene in the 1920's, he's famous for "Kitten on the Keys" and "Dizzy Fingers", but he wrote many other pieces.

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composed around 1922,  Novelty Piano is a successor to ragtime and an outgrowth of the piano roll music of the 1910s, it can be considered a pianistic cousin of jazz, which appeared around the same time.