Info:
Artist: Various
Album:  Harlem Stride Essentials
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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This driving style of piano-playing bridged the gap between ragtime and swing in New York during the 1920s and '30s. The sound is characterized by a left-handed four-beat pulse, alternating between a bass note and a mid-range chord, while the right hand plays heavily syncopated, largely improvised melodies. Stride anticipated swing with its rhythmic elasticity, broad harmonic exploration, use of blues forms, and an embrace of popular tunes of the day. James P. Johnson was its main progenitor, penning some of its most enduring themes, including “The Charleston,” which became a dance craze in the '20s. Pianists like Willie “The Lion” Smith and Fats Waller followed closely, pushing the transitions toward jazz with less overt syncopation and more fluid rhythmic thrust. While the style became the province of revivalists by the '40s, relentlessly original pianists like Thelonious Monk, Jaki Byard, and Jason Moran adapted it for their own means decades later.

Tracklist:
01. James P. Johnson - Carolina Shout
02. Thelonious Monk - I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Take 2)
03. Eubie Blake - Dicties on 7th Avenue
04. Claude Hopkins - Them There Eyes
05. Erroll Garner - Back Home Again in Indiana
06. Teddy Wilson - Three Little Words
07. Fats Waller - Handful of Keys (Remastered 2000)
08. Joel Forrester - Fate
09. Art Tatum - Tiger Rag (Album Version)
10. Joe Sullivan - Never Heard Of Such Stuff (09-29-52)
11. James P. Johnson - Jingles
12. Duke Ellington - The Second Portrait of the Lion (Remastered)
13. Mary Lou Williams - Clean pickin'
14. Thomas "Fats" Waller - Numb Fumblin' (2004 Remastered)
15. Donald Lambert - Rose of the Rio Grande
16. Jason Moran - You've Got To Be Modernistic
17. Cliff Jackson - Limehouse Blues - Original
18. Johnny Guarnieri - Walla Walla
19. Ehud Asherie - Bandana Days
20. Clarence Profit - Hot And Bothered
21. Sam Nowlin - Change
22. Lee Sims - Blues in My Heart
23. Willie "The Lion" Smith And His Cubs - Harlem Joys
24. Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers - I've Found a New Baby
25. Ralph Sutton - Drop Me Off In Harlem
26. Don Ewell - Buddy's Habit
27. Fats Waller - African Ripples (Remastered)
28. Jaki Byard - Pete and Thomas - Tribute to Ticklers
29. Jess Stacy - Keepin' out of Mischief Now
30. Dick Wellstood - Viper's Drag
31. James P. Johnson - Riffs
32. Kirby Walker - The Shout (Piano Solo)
33. Muggsy Spanier, Albert Nicholas, George Brunies - Clarinet Marmalade
34. Erroll Garner - Red Sails in the Sunset
35. Dick Wellstood - The Mule Walk
36. Lee Sims - Mine All Mine
37. Mary Lou Williams - Aries
38. Thelonious Monk - Honeysuckle Rose
39. Art Tatum - Stompin at the Savoy
40. Judy Carmichael - Judy
41. Sir Charles Thompson - Stolen Sweets