Zez Confrey (b. April 3, 1895, Peru, Illinois, USA – d. November 22, 1971, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA) led his own dance band in high school, attended the Chicago Musical College as an aspiring concert pianist, became a staff pianist for the Tin Pan Alley publisher Witmarks in Chicago in 1916, enlisted in the US Navy in 1917, worked as a pianist and arranger for the QRS piano roll company after World War 1, wrote his big hit “Kitten on the Keys'“ in 1921, the third most recorded rag (after Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” and Euday Bowman’s “12th Street Rag”), composed for jazz bands in the 1920s, and retired after World War 2.
Subgenre: Novelty Ragtime
Best known work(s): “Kitten on the Keys” (1921), “Dizzy Fingers” (1923)
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