音乐评论家一直将詹姆斯·P·约翰逊定义为伟大的早期爵士钢琴家，20世纪20年代哈林区“跨步”风格的鼻祖，也是重要的蓝调和爵士乐作曲家。
Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920's Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer.
约翰逊是一位严肃的音乐家，在爵士乐、蓝调、灵歌和流行音乐方面比大多数古典作曲家更有经验，他特别适合扩展米沃德和格什温的实验。
Johnson, a serious musician more experienced than most classical composers with jazz, blues, spirituals, and popular music, was particularly suited to expand Milhaud's and Gershwin's experiments.
1927年，他完成了他的第一部大型作品《蓝调和爵士乐启发的亚美克劳》，其中包括从灵歌和约翰逊自己的流行歌曲中借鉴。
In 1927 he completed his first large-scale work, the blues- and jazz-inspired Yamekraw, which included borrowings from spirituals and Johnson's own popular songs.
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