A wonderful album recorded in last century mid-20’s by piano player Clarence Johnson A superb priceless album with twenty piano solo songs, based on Chicago Southside blues, stomps, rags, waltzes, hot jazz, boogie-woogie and stride piano, all them totally delicious These strange unusual ‘nickelodeon piano rolls’ were fully transcribed and performed by this dark, but gifted and clever piano player called Clarence ‘Jelly’ Johnson, we know very few things about his life and musical adventures Most of his songs were done in collaboration with the Lloyd brothers and Warren Smith who, in those years, owned a very important shop in Chicago called ‘The Original Home Of Jazz’ We also know that between 1923 and 1925, Clarence backed blues singers Sodarisa Miller, Monette Moore, Priscilla Stewart or Edna Taylor, doing different recordings for Paramount Clarence Johnson often traveled around New York and gave his piano playing to singers like Edna Hicks, Sara Martin and Lizzie Miles In short words, this is a delicious historical volume to be taken into account