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Jazz Encounters Graz Austria Edythe Baker piano roll artist versus fame

Artis Wodehouse live presentation at the 2024 Jazz Encounters Rhythm Changes Conference at the Performing Arts School of Graz University, Austria April 5th, 2024. Wodehouse's paper focussed on the early cessation of Edythe Baker's work as pianist and composer due to social and entertainment expectations Baker felt necessary to meet in order to achieve fame and social recognition. A portion of Wodehouse's opening remarks were not filmed in this live presentation due to technical setup of the recorder, so that text proceeds the filming. Edythe Baker (1899-1971) was an enormously gifted American pianist, composer, singer and dancer who grew up in the Kansas City area. It was in Kansas City and other Mid-West locations that she heard and absorbed elements of African-American ragtime and the blues. Before she arrived in New York City in 1919 at approximately age 20, she had had several years of experience on the vaudeville circuit, primarily in the Mid-West and South. Talent scouts in New York immediately recognized her unique assimilation of these emerging popular piano stylings, particularly the blues, which had become wildly popular around 1920. Thereafter, she was propelled to the upper echelon of the entertainment industry. She appeared as piano soloist, stage performer (singing and dancing), and made over 70 piano roll recordings from 1919 to 1926 as well as phonograph disc recordings for Columbia and British Decca, 1927-1933.