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Russell Smith That Demon Rag 1912 Ragtime Piano Synthesia
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That Demon Rag by Russell Smith • Info about the composer: • Ragtime composer William Russell Smith was born in Versailles, KY, June 12, 1890 and grew up in Indianapolis, IN. Under the name Russell Smith he was a contract musician when he was 20 years old. He played the piano and lived at home with his parents, according to the 1910 U.S. Census. • In 1911, he formed a dance orchestra that was the first African American band to play at the Severin Hotel in Indianapolis [source: Lost Legends of Indiana Jazz, by David Johnson, June 5, 2008, online]. Noble Sissle was a member of the band, and Russell Smith would later join the orchestra that played for the road company of Sissle and Blake's Shuffle Along [BlackPast.Org] and Chocolate Dandies [IBD.com]. • In 1917, when Russell Smith registered for the draft, he was a musician at the Murat Theatre [Wikipedia] in Indianapolis [source: World War I draft registration card]. At that time he was the husband of Leona Singleton; the couple had married in Indianapolis on June 6, 1917 [source: Ancestry.com Indiana Marriages Index, File Film No. 413547]. • A few years later, Russell Smith was working as a laborer with a piano company in Indianapolis [source: 1920 U.S. Census]; he would move on to Manhattan, NY, where he worked as a piano player on the *Keith Circuit [source: 1930 U.S. Census]. • By 1940, Russell Smith was again living in Indiana as a single man and still a musician, living with his older sister Ana and her husband William Walker on Capital Avenue in Indianapolis [source: U.S. Census]. In 1942, he registered for the draft; at that time, he was employed at a brewery [source: World War II draft registration card]. • William Russell Smith spent his final days working as a janitor in a bookstore during the day and playing at a local tavern in the evenings. He was a widow when he died July 17, 1969 in Indianapolis; he is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery there [source: Indiana Death Certificate State No. 69-026923]. • Russell Smith was the son of Frances Brown and Albert Smith [source: Ancestry.com Indiana Marriages Index, File Film No. 413547]. Two of his hits were Princess Rag and That Demon Rag in 1912. For more see Russell Smith in The Jazz State of Indiana, by Duncan P. Schiedt. • (Source: https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/...) • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: / its.remco • ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: / its_remco • ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • My free practice recommendations I use myself: • ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android IOS) 👂🏽: • ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn • ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: • ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG • ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • #russellsmith #thatdemonrag #ragtime #1912 #williamrussellsmith #ragtimesynthesia #ragtimepiano #piano #ragtimecomposer #rag #synthesia #williamsmith #ragtimetutorial #earlyragtime #itsRemco
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