James P. Johnson, the father of the Harlem school of stride piano, is buried in an unmarked grave in Maspeth, Queens. On October 4th, 2009, Smalls Jazz Club in New York's Greenwich Village will host a "rent party" to raise money for a monument to the pianist.
The event runs from 1:00 to 9:00 pm, and will feature an exhibit from the James P. Johnson archive at the Rutgers Institute for Jazz Studies, a symposium by Johnson scholar Scott Brown, and solo piano performances by Dick Hyman, Ethan Iverson, Ted Rosenthal, Terry Waldo, Mike Lipskin, Ehud Asherie, Conal Fowlkes, Spike Wilner, and Aaron Diehl.
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