In 2014, during the festival season in New Orleans, cornetist Jamie Wight invited some of his favorite musicians who were in town to do some
Rich Conaty has hosted his weekly radio show The Big Broadcast since 1973, featuring jazz, dance music and singers from the 1920s and ‘30s. Since
According to Nicki Parrott, the first time she played with pianist Rossano Sportiello and drummer Eddie Metz, Jr. as a trio was a club date
Jeff Barnhart makes everything look so effortless. Like his idol Fats Waller, Barnhart not only finds it easy to take a vocal while playing heated
James P. Johnson may not have been the very first stride pianist in history but he was the most influential and the pacesetter of the
If pure, passionate and powerful horn-playing is your cup of tea, you owe yourself a big gulp of Live & Unplugged featuring Orlando-based trumpeter Charlie
Molly Ryan’s musical travelogue Let’s Fly Away is a jewel. The individual selections on the CD, all quite excellent, describe a dramatic trajectory within the
Peripatetic drummer Danny Coots, who travels the world from his home in Nashville, and stride pianist Brian Holland of Dallas have collaborated on four recordings,
In this, their third CD, the Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra pushes their boundaries into the 1920s to pick up some great tunes from the third decade
Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick, both accomplished stride pianists, first met in 2008 at a stride summit weekend in Switzerland. They kept bumping into each
Stephanie Trick’s horizons keep expanding. When we first met her, she was playing ragtime, but she soon mastered Scott Joplin and moved to stride piano,
This CD is a true treasure! Frederick Hodges, who has earned a deserved reputation as a fine interpreter of novelty piano music and difficult forms of
This is the third “concept” recording that Rick Benjamin has tackled along with his Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, the first two being “Black Manhattan” (music of
Dr. Dave Majchrzak (or “Dr. Dave,” as he is called – for good reason) has always taken an assured approach to his playing of ragtime.
Wherever there has been an open piano at ragtime events, John Remmers has been a familiar face for many years. This is his first recording and
Eric Marchese has been active in the Southern California ragtime scene for many years. He has founded both a ragtime festival and a ragtime society
It must be satisfying for Trebor Tichenor, the patriarch of the Tichenor Family Five, to see how his love of music is being carried on
It’s funny what love will do. Absent are the pyrotechnics and the quirky improvisations that have long been her domain, replaced on this disc with lush
Paul Lingle spent most of his life playing for people who didn’t really listen. From the bars and dime-a-dance joints to the Dixieland band one-nighters and
Being a ragtime reviewer, it is often interesting to see what shows up in my mailbox. Let me also state right from the get-go that, as
Subtitled “20 Original Piano Solos by Reginald R. Robinson,” this self-produced compact disc is an eclectic mix of rags, tangos, waltzes, a blues, a march
Several years ago when Matthew Davidson released his first ragtime CD, it contained several novelty piano pieces. I was so impressed that I stated publicly
As the director of The Golden Gate Radio Orchestra, Peter Weiglin, says in his eloquent liner notes, “When Radio swept the nation, beginning in the
When I was first learning about ragtime, I kept encountering references to the cakewalk, all of which seemed to assume that the reader already knew
