Originally designed as a response to the rapidly changing creative world of 2020 amidst the unprecedented COVID disruptions; The Summer Chores was created as a motivational tool for home use over the summer months for students and teachers alike, the intension being that the performer plays all the parts to each piece while learning and experimenting how to record themselves, learn how to make a click-track, how to multi-track, mix, video-edit and more….
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. Clarence Williams was also an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher. Williams was a good businessman too and worked arranging and managing entertainment at the local African-American vaudeville theatre and at various saloons and dance halls around Rampart Street. Williams started a music publishing business which by the 1920’s was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country.
