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Topic: Zez Confrey - Coaxing the Piano (video)  (Read 755 times)

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Zez Confrey - Coaxing the Piano (video)
on: July 03, 2024, 12:42:49 PM
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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Re: Zez Confrey - Coaxing the Piano (video)
Reply #1 on: July 10, 2024, 07:01:25 PM
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.
 

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