Roy Bargy

Although relatively peripheral to jazz, pianist Roy Bargy documented 6 piano solos (mainly within the novelty ragtime design) appealing during 1922-24 that, together with his 11 piano rolls, were reissued on the Folkways LP. Bargy got got 12 years of piano lessons beginning with when he was five. He previously originally planned to become traditional pianist, but rather started employed in the favorite music field. He performed piano and body organ at local film houses, structured his own college orchestra and in 1919 started slicing piano rolls. The next yr he was employed as pianist, arranger and musical movie director for the Benson Orchestra of Chicago. Within the middle-1920s, Bargy worked well for a while with Isham Jones and gained his most significant popularity as pianist with Paul Whiteman (1928-40), where his “reputable” technique allowed him to try out both reliable jazz and traditional solos (such as for example “Rhapsody In Blue”). Bargy spent his old age working in the first ’40s with Lanny Ross on radio and offered as Jimmy Durante’s musical movie director from 1943-63 before retiring. Bargy’s best-known structure is normally “Pianoflage.”