Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1971
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Three pieces for solo piano
- Jap-a-lac-ee
- Zez Confrey Piano Solos Ragtime, Novelty, and Jazz
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- 8,619
- Total plays
- 32,924
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Pianist/Composer born in Peru, IL 1895. Composer of tunes including My Pet and Kitten on the Keys. Credited as the originator of novelty ragtime. A follower of the fingerbuster piano players like James P Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith. Died in Lakewood, NJ 1971 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Zez+Confrey">Read more on Last.fm</a>
5 total works indexed
· 2003 · cited 2,047x
· 2024 · cited 337x
· 1995 · cited 215x
· 2012 · cited 159x
· 1994 · cited 128x
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).