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BRIER, TOM

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Condition: New, UPC: 7002614329082, Publication Date: 10/29/2015, Type: COMPACT DISC, Style: POP/JAZZ,

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tracks

New Era Rag (Live)
Scott Joplin's New Rag (Live)
Sponge (Live)
Cotton States Rag (Live)
Colorado Blues (Live)
Red Rambler Rag (Live)
The Raggy Fox Trot (Live)
Rubber Plant Rag (Live)
Georgia Grind (Live)
Cake Walk At Boomblestein's Ball (Live)
Fizz Water (Live)
Something Doing (Live)
Reindeer (Live)
Sleepy Hollow Rag (Live)
Ham And! (Live)
Nifty Nonsense (Live)
The Bunny Hug Rag (Live)
Angel Food Rag (Live)
Hot-House Rag (Live)
Maple Leaf Rag (Live)
Impecunious Davis (Live)
Ma Rag Time Baby (Live)
Texas Fox Trot (Live)
Hyacinth Rag (Live)
The Lion Tamer Rag (Live)
3:54

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A collection of 25 vintage rags recorded live during concerts in homes and other settings. Most performers these days focus on the music of the Big Three of Classic Ragtime (Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and James Scott), and justifiably so: their pieces are very well written and stand the test of time. And these composers are well represented on this disc (“Scott Joplin’s New Rag,” “Something Doing,” and “Maple Leaf Rag” for Joplin; “New Era Rag” for Scott; and “Reindeer” for Lamb). But their output is only a small fraction of the total number of rags that were published before 1920. There were tuneful cakewalks (“The Cake Walk at Boomblestein’s Ball,” “Impecunious Davis” by the writer of “At a Georgia Campmeeting,” “Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis,” and “Red Wing”), fox trots (“Sleepy Hollow Rag”), melodious yet easy pieces published by the music industry for the aspiring amateurs (“Hyacinth Rag,” “The Bunny Hug Rag,” “Angel Food Rag,” “Red Rambler Rag”), sophisticated pieces for the professionals (“The Raggy Fox Trot,” “Hot-House Rag,” “Nifty Nonsense”, “Texas Fox Trot”), early blues (“Colorado Blues,” by the writer of “12th Street Rag”), whiz-bang show-off pieces (“Rubber Plant Rag,” “The Lion Tamer Rag”), and eccentric, folksy rags from small towns (“Sponge,” “Cotton States Rag”). Most published composers were white, but a fair number of African-Americans (the originators of Ragtime) were published as well (Joplin, Scott, Ford Dabney [“Georgia Grind”], Eubie Blake [“Fizz Water”], Scott Hayden, Arthur Marshall [“Ham And!”], and Fred Stone [“Ma Rag Time Baby”]).

While it is important to provide these pieces with their proper historical context, ultimately they are presented here because they are good, quality pieces of music that are just as entertaining today as they were when they were first published a century ago. Enjoy!

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