Roosevelt Sykes was the blues piano player whom all the blues piano player that followed wanted to play like. He was Jelly Roll Morton after Jelly Roll Morton. The next Jelly Roll Morton. But not because he was the best copy cat of Morton, he was his own player, but he was the top man on keys in the thirties. That clip looks to be from around the time he recorded his 1960 album, The Honeydripper, at the legendary Van Gelder Studio. Sykes was already in his fifties by then and that might explain why he starts the song off with some retrospective hesitancy as if he had not played it in some years. HBCUs and Music? Yes. Here's the web-blurb from a school in Louisiana. Grambling State University Music Department. Overview: Music has been an integral part of Grambling’s history and development since the very founding of this institution. Indeed, one of the very first members of the teaching faculty taught music. Since 1905, when the historically black, public institution offered its first music classes, the Grambling State University Music Department has held an important place in the life of the university and the surrounding community. The first degree in music, the Bachelor of Science in Music Education, was conferred in 1952; and the department grew to seventeen faculty and two secretaries by 1977-78. While experiencing steady growth in its faculty and staff, the Music Department continues to increase its student enrollment, community involvement, and service activities.
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Roosevelt Sykes was the blues piano player whom all the blues piano player that followed wanted to play like. He was Jelly Roll Morton after Jelly Roll Morton. The next Jelly Roll Morton. But not because he was the best copy cat of Morton, he was his own player, but he was the top man on keys in the thirties. That clip looks to be from around the time he recorded his 1960 album, The Honeydripper, at the legendary Van Gelder Studio. Sykes was already in his fifties by then and that might explain why he starts the song off with some retrospective hesitancy as if he had not played it in some years.
HBCUs and Music? Yes. Here's the web-blurb from a school in Louisiana. Grambling State University Music Department. Overview: Music has been an integral part of Grambling’s history and development since the very founding of this institution. Indeed, one of the very first members of the teaching faculty taught music. Since 1905, when the historically black, public institution offered its first music classes, the Grambling State University Music Department has held an important place in the life of the university and the surrounding community. The first degree in music, the Bachelor of Science in Music Education, was conferred in 1952; and the department grew to seventeen faculty and two secretaries by 1977-78. While experiencing steady growth in its faculty and staff, the Music Department continues to increase its student enrollment, community involvement, and service activities.