Thatsum Rag

New Columbian Brass Band (Artist), Foreman (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1999)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dorian Recordings
• ASIN: B00000JC7Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,655 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Razzazza Mazzaza, two-step extravaganza for band

2. Bunch o' blackberries

3. A Kansas two-step, burlesque for band

4. Geo'ge Washin'ton's birthday pahty, march for band

5. Fan-Tan (Chinese March Characteristique), for band

6. At a Georgia Camp Meeting, song

7. Sarazan, march two-step for band

8. Creole belles, ragtime march for band

9. Warm doughnuts, march for band

10. Watermelon club, march two-step for band

11. Good gravy rag, a musical relish

12. An African smile, march

13. The Cubanola Glide, ragtime melody

14. Artful Artie, march & two-step for band

15. The smiler, rag

16. Sweetmeats, rag two-step for band

17. Kentucky sunrise, two-step for band

18. The walking frog, two-step for band

19. That Tired Rag

20. Zampede, rag for band

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Dorian winner, July 21, 1999

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F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thatsum Rag (Audio CD)

How does Dorian do it? After a superlative recreation of <That Demon Rag! American Popular Music from the Ragtime Era> (DIS 80107) and <A Trip to Coney Island: Descriptive Overtures from America's Golden Age> (DIS 80153), they come near to topping them both with <Thatsum Rag!> (DIS 93165). Here The New Columbian Brass Band under George Foreman syncopates again (they did the "Coney Island set) with 21 once very popular band tunes ranging from the 1895 "A Kansas Two-Step" to the relatively recent 1920 "Zampede." Not only does it all leave you (i.e., me) breathless at the end, but one might wish for a bit more than the 62 minutes Dorian provides on this CD. I urge you to have both the "Demon Rag" set with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and compare it with the sound of this set's band sound. Both are legitimate, both utterly authentic (as far as I can tell), and each complements the other nicely. So if you think your great-greats were still Victorian stick in the muds in the Edwardian age, these discs will show that even they knew how to have a good time. My only complaint is the producers printing the contents over a picture. More and more companies are doing this and it is very annoying. The information inside the booklet, however, is well presented and the illustrations wonderful.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sunny, February 20, 2001

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"gaios33" (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thatsum Rag (Audio CD)

I first listened to this CD in my mom's car...she never likes music very loud, so I was listening to it softly. DON'T do this. It was bland, uninteresting, and I regretted buying it. However, I got home, and put it into my bedroom CD player, and turned the volume up high...Wow! It was suddenly toe-tapping and swingy, and the melodies were sheer perfection (I love those raggy tunes).

My only complaint is the lack of stringed instruments like banjos (albeit not widespread in the repertoire/style for part of the target period) as a good grounding for the airiness of the winds, which seemed to be lacking in places. It's also great percussion, and drums just don't always do the trick.

But anyways, my advice is: turn the volume up--don't even listen to it on headphones--and lose yourself. A delight. :)