Ragtime Classics

PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN
KURZBESCHREIBUNG
This collection of 35 ragtime classics were taken from the original piano roll recordings and amply demonstrate this man’s music and still sound as pleasing as they did in his day. Track Listing: Disc 1: 1. Swipesy Cakewalk; 2. Original Rags; 3. Combination March; 4. Sunflower Slow Drag; 5. The Easy Winners; 6. CLEOPHA; 7. Weeping Willow Rag; 8. Something Doing; 9. Maple Leaf Rag; 10. Peacherine Rag; 11. Elite Syncopations; 12. The Sycamore; 13. The Favorite; 14. The Cascades; 15. The Chrysanthemum; 16. Leola; 17. The Strenuous Life; 18. Eugenia; Disc 2: 1. Rose Leaf Rag; 2. Gladiolus Rag; 3. Lily Queen; 4. Heliotrope Bouquet; 5. Searchlight Rag; 6. The Non Pareil; 7. Pineapple Rag; 8. Euphonic Sounds; 9. The Entertainer; 10. Fig Leaf Rag; 11. Country Club; 12. Paragon Rag; 13. Stoptime Rag; 14. Scott Joplin's New Rag; 15. A Real Slow Rag; 16. The Ragtime Dance; 17. Reflection Rag.

BIOGRAPHIE DER MITWIRKENDEN
Scott Joplin was born in Texarkana, Texas, U.S.A. on the 24th November 1868, from a mother and father born into slavery, becoming free people with emancipation in 1863. His father was a musical person who actively encouraged his sons and daughters to pursue the music. The self-taught pianist Scott Joplin moved to St Louis in his teens and soon became an accomplished pianist. He was versed in various piano styles but excelled in the then highly popular Ragtime method. By 1894 Joplin was in Sedalia, where he began to write down many of the piano rags played by others, but more importantly what he had composed himself. “Maple Leaf Rag” gave him some success and in effect turned his attention to write in a Quasi-Classical way. He wrote many Ragtime ballets and Ragtime operas, but they were not as popular with the general public as normal Ragtime tunes. His personal life was indeed very hard, his first marriage failed, his only child died and his health declined rapidly. Despite all these personal problems he managed to put together another Ragtime opera “Treemonisha”, which he paid for to see it staged and fail, increasing his health problems in 1915. Scott died on the 1st April 1917 of a debilitating venereal disease. Joplin’s music rags were published and used by many appreciative Jazz musicians in latter years, notably Jelly Roll Morton, W.C. Handy, Willie The Lion Smith, James P. Johnson and Fats Waller in particular were all influenced by Joplin’s earlier work. In 1973 a film starring Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Robert Shaw “The Sting” was a huge success and featured Joplin’s tunes and recordings such as “The Entertainer”, “Elite Syncopations”, “Solace II” and “Chrysanthemum”. This advanced media coverage has given enormous interest to Joplin’s work and its importance in music and in particular Jazz history.

Disc 1
1: Swipesy Cakewalk
2: Original Rags
3: Combination March
4: Sunflower Slow Drag
5: The Easy Winners
6: CLEOPHA
7: Weeping Willow Rag
8: Something Doing
9: Maple Leaf Rag
10: Peacherine Rag
11: Elite Syncopations
12: The Sycamore
13: The Favorite
14: The Cascades
15: The Chrysanthemum
16: Leola
17: The Strenuous Life
18: Eugenia

Disc 2
1: Rose Leaf Rag
2: Gladiolus Rag
3: Lily Queen
4: Heliotrope Bouquet
5: Searchlight Rag
6: The Non Pareil
7: Pineapple Rag
8: Euphonic Sounds
9: The Entertainer
10: Fig Leaf Rag
11: Country Club
12: Paragon Rag
13: Stoptime Rag
14: Scott Joplin's New Rag
15: A Real Slow Rag
16: The Ragtime Dance
17: Reflection Rag

Number of Discs: 2

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