Chords for Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" in 5/4 time by Johnny Guarnieri

Have you ever tried to describe a living legend to someone in 30 or 40 seconds?
Well, it just isn't possible
But if you got the time I've got the incentive to try for our next guest is indeed a legend
His name is Johnny Guarneri and his career runs parallel to the development of the piano in jazz
It would be possible to say he picked up where Fats Waller left off
Not only in stride piano
But also in in writing and it would also be flattering because Johnny fell in love with Fats when he was growing up in New York
City and Fats Waller of course carried on the Harlem or the what we call a stride technique and that was
Done by James P.
Johnson
So the continuity and one of the richest idioms of America's music is intact
His background is is strictly classical, _ but his accent is fully jazz _
His credits cover quite a cross-section he was pianist with Jimmy Darcy
_ Twice with Benny Goodman with Raymond Scott and with Artie Shaw
_ And with Artie's band Johnny was featured with that wonderfully innovative combo the Gramercy five
_ He's one of the most recorded pianists in history.
Johnny can be heard on over
6 _ ,000 recordings and if you check with ASCAP, that's the American Society of composers and publishers you'll find over
3,500 _ compositions bearing his name and many of them classical
That should come as no surprise since he's a descendant of the Guarnerius family of violin makers
_ Maybe it would be heresy to mention the competition
But the best way I know of to bring him on is to say here.
He is the _ Stradivarius of pianists _ Johnny Guarneri _ _ _
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