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Browse piano sheets by Larry Briers on Zen Virtual Piano. Larry Briers was an early jazz and dance band pianist, born in Newport News, Virginia, on 25 December 1891. He married Evelyn Russell Groeble on 6 September 1913, and the couple moved to New York, where he found work at the Rector Café and decided to use the artistic name Larry Briers. A new city and a new name arrived together, as if a working musician’s career began by being renamed. At the Rector Café he met Joseph Samuels, a clarinet player and violinist and a future alto saxophonist, who hired him for the orchestra that also played there. In January 1919 he made his very first recordings with Samuels’s Orchestra for the US branch of Pathé, and he went on to record with Samuels for Okeh, Emerson, Lyric, Gennett, Paramount, Arto, Bell, Grey Gull, Edison and Federal, among other labels. A bandleader’s hire at the Rector Café leads to a trail of record labels, which suggests how much a sideman’s career can depend on one introduction. He also accompanied the Harmonizers, Mamie Smith, Clarence Williams and many other vocalists and vocal groups, and appeared on several of Samuels’s violin recordings and some of Harry Reser’s earliest banjo solos with piano accompaniment. As a composer he wrote tunes including “Just Suppose,” “Dew Drop,” “Satisfied,” “Oh, Joe (Please Don’t Go),” “Parson Jenks,” “Fine Feathers” and “Brother Low-Down,” and he co-wrote “Page Paderewski” with Samuels and the pianist Pete Wendling. The 1919 titles credited to him include the fox trot “Jazapation” and the one-step “Jazarella.” A pianist who accompanied singers and violinists also left behind a list of his own tunes, which suggests a musician working on both sides of the accompaniment. By 1940 he was living in Franklin, Ohio.
Browse piano sheets by Larry Briers on Zen Virtual Piano.
Larry Briers was an early jazz and dance band pianist, born in Newport News, Virginia, on 25 December 1891. He married Evelyn Russell Groeble on 6 September 1913, and the couple moved to New York, where he found work at the Rector Café and decided to use the artistic name Larry Briers. A new city and a new name arrived together, as if a working musician’s career began by being renamed.
At the Rector Café he met Joseph Samuels, a clarinet player and violinist and a future alto saxophonist, who hired him for the orchestra that also played there. In January 1919 he made his very first recordings with Samuels’s Orchestra for the US branch of Pathé, and he went on to record with Samuels for Okeh, Emerson, Lyric, Gennett, Paramount, Arto, Bell, Grey Gull, Edison and Federal, among other labels. A bandleader’s hire at the Rector Café leads to a trail of record labels, which suggests how much a sideman’s career can depend on one introduction. He also accompanied the Harmonizers, Mamie Smith, Clarence Williams and many other vocalists and vocal groups, and appeared on several of Samuels’s violin recordings and some of Harry Reser’s earliest banjo solos with piano accompaniment.
As a composer he wrote tunes including “Just Suppose,” “Dew Drop,” “Satisfied,” “Oh, Joe (Please Don’t Go),” “Parson Jenks,” “Fine Feathers” and “Brother Low-Down,” and he co-wrote “Page Paderewski” with Samuels and the pianist Pete Wendling. The 1919 titles credited to him include the fox trot “Jazapation” and the one-step “Jazarella.” A pianist who accompanied singers and violinists also left behind a list of his own tunes, which suggests a musician working on both sides of the accompaniment. By 1940 he was living in Franklin, Ohio.
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An early jazz and dance band pianist, born in Newport News, Virginia, on 25 December 1891, who recorded and performed in New York with Joseph Samuels’s orchestra and composed tunes such as “Brother Low-Down.”
In January 1919, with Joseph Samuels’s Orchestra for the US branch of Pathé.
He accompanied the Harmonizers, Mamie Smith, Clarence Williams and many other vocalists and vocal groups.