File:"Dat Johnson Rag" (1910), by C.E. Matchett & N. Clark Smith.oga

English: Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/scores/22148449?from=youtube_share

What a nice rag this is, if I had a category called "Soothing Rags" this one would go in it. Composed by C.E. Matchett, a piano salesman from Wichita, and Nathaniel Clark Smith, a distinguished African-American military and civilian bandleader, teacher and composer who lived from 1877 to 1935. Smith met Theodore Roosevelt while serving as an infantry bandleader during the Battle of San Juan Hill in 1898; later while president Roosevelt encouraged him to become bandleader at the Tuskegee Institute in 1905, where he was still working when this rag was composed. He otherwise lived and worked mainly in Kansas City and Chicago, leading and organizing bands and teaching. His teaching style was strict and rigorous, but he got good results wherever he went. This rag was published by Marsh & Needles in Wichita, Kansas in 1910.

Calbert Earl Matchett or Matchette was born in Missouri in 1881. He worked as a piano salesman, demonstrator and manager in Wichita. He moved around a bit, eventually ending up in Portland, Oregon where he died in 1959. (Thank you to Musescore's Erlingl for the info.)

Original score source was from the Charles Templeton Sheet Music Collection at Mississippi State University at this link: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/11712/

This is a reproduction of the original score. Adjusted the interlude at bars 71-78 from a key signature of A flat to E flat.