Dance Brymn Tim (2 results)

The scarce sheet music for the collaboratively composed "The Camel Walk," which enjoyed a short-lived spell of popularity in 1925 as a dance successor to the Charleston. Tim Brymn (18811946) was a prominent African American bandleader, pianist, and composer active in New York during the 1910s and 1920s. Born in Kingston, North Carolina, he studied at the National Conservatory of Music and led orchestras at major venues including the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic and Reisenweber's Paradise Ballroom. He later organized the Black Devil Orchestra, which toured Europe in the early 1920s and recorded for Vocalion. Co-composer Chris Smith (18791949), born in Charleston, South Carolina, was an important early ragtime songwriter best known for the 1913 hit "Ballin' the Jack," written with Jim Burris and popularized through the dance repertoire of Vernon and Irene Castle. Lyricist Cecil Mack (18731944), born Richard Cecil McPherson in Baltimore, was a key figure in Black musical theater and a founder of the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in 1921, one of the first major Black-owned music publishers. Bob Schafer was active in New York popular music circles during the 1920s as a songwriter and arranger contributing to dance numbers and novelty songs issued by Tin Pan Alley publishers. According to the Oxford Companion to Popular Music,[1] the piece had a "temporary vogue," and along with other dances such as the "Black Bottom," it overtook the Charleston in popularity. [1] Peter Gammond, Oxford Companion to Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 1991). Covers nearly detached, music shop stamp to front cover, good to very good overall with excellent contents. Small folio, 12 x 9 inches, 5 pp.

A striking ragtime-era dance publication for "The Tar-Heel Blues," composed by the African American bandleader and composer J. Tim Brymn (James T. Brymn, 18811946). The cover features a posed studio photograph of the well-known ballroom dancers Maurice and Florence Walton, who are credited on the sheet as introducing the piece. Such dance teams played a major role in promoting new popular dance compositions during the 1910s, when foxtrots and ragtime-influenced social dances were widely circulated through sheet music and stage performances. Brymn was one of the most prominent Black bandleaders active in New York during the early twentieth century. Born in Kingston, North Carolina, he studied music at the National Conservatory of Music and later led orchestras at several major entertainment venues including Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic and the famed Reisenweber's Paradise Ballroom. In the early 1920s he organized the Black Devil Orchestra, an ensemble of African American musicians that toured Europe and made recordings for the Vocalion label. Brymn's compositions and arrangements helped bring ragtime and early jazz idioms into mainstream dance music during the period immediately preceding the jazz age. Light handling wear; excellent condition overall. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover featuring a photographic image of society dancers Maurice and Florence Walton. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches.