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- NAME: Scott Joplin
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Pianist
- BIRTH DATE: c. 1867
- DEATH DATE: April 01, 1917
- EDUCATION: George r. Smith College for Negroes
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Bowie County, Texas
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York
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Scott Joplin was a black American composer and pianist known as the "king of ragtime" at the turn of the 20th century.
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Scott Joplin was a black American composer. Born in Texas, he moved to New York in 1907, later writing an instruction book, The School of Ragtime. His explained style and technique was widely imitated and some of his works are now classic rags for piano, including "The Entertainer." His opera Treemonisha was performed on Broadway in 1972 and his music comprises the score for the film The Sting.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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Famous Jazz Musicians
View groupWith its roots in the blues, jazz has been referred to as America's classical music, yet has also become a major global phenomenon, branching off into a variety of forms. Earlier pioneers like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton paved the way for the swinging big-band sounds of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. In contrast, contemporaries Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk developed bebop, with its speedy, dissonant harmonies and improvisations. And Miles Davis heralded the birth of cool jazz, modal jazz and fusion at different points in his career. Famous jazz instrumentalists have tended to be male, yet women have been at the forefront of the genre when it comes to vocalization, from the brassy blues of Bessie Smith to the haunting eclecticism of Nina Simone.
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