Everything Is Ragtime Now

Alan Martin (Artist), De Organographia (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 26, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: North Pacific Music/Clay Paste
• Run Time: 71.0 minutes
• ASIN: B000E7VH6K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,093,331 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Razzazza Mazzazza

2. Levee Revels

3. The Junkman Rag

4. Bantam Step

5. The Jazz-Dance Repertoire

6. Sponge

7. Honey Rag

8. Mandy's Broadway Stroll

9. The Original Chicago Blues

10. At a Georgia Camp Meeting

11. Cleanin' Up in Georgia

12. Trombone Johnsen

13. Felix Rag

14. Echoes from the Snowball Club

15. Too Much Raspberry

16. The Amazon Rag

17. Who Let the Cows Out?

18. Turkey in the Straw, A Rag-Time Fantasie

19. Majestic Rag

20. Key-Stone Rag

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Although we today tend to associate it chiefly with the giants of the form, which include Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb, ragtime music is also the rich and extraordinary legacy of many forgotten composers from all over the United States. Increasing awareness of the vast variety of the ragtime repertoire has made possible the publication of a large number of relatively obscure pieces. We present here a cross-section of this lesser-known ragtime music, ranging from the haunting folk melody of Levee Revels (1898) to the cinematic flair of Key-Stone Rag (1921), from the cakewalk At a Georgia Camp Meeting (1897) to unique, strutting Bantam Step (1916). From San Francisco to New York, New Orleans to Chicago, ragtime became synonymous with popular music. Charley Straight and J. B. Walsh summed it up perfectly when they wrote that "Everything is Ragtime Now".