1.   More recently Wyeth concentrated on piano, leading his own groups in ragtime, blues and early jazz at New York clubs.

2.   Paradoxically, early jazz also brought a new rigor to rhythm.

3.   Though the banjo was part of early New Orleans jazz, it sounds a little quirky in this setting.

4.   In short order, he made a record of popular rags and of early jazz by Jelly Roll Morton and James P. Johnson.