Bryan Wright

Bryan Wright is a pianist, teacher, record producer, collector, composer, and musicologist, specializing in ragtime, early jazz, and related styles. Bryan is the founder of Rivermont Records (rivermontrecords.com) and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Visit him online at www.bryanswright.com.

Royce Martin Charts a New Path for Ragtime

Bryan Wright November 30, 2023

Fifty years after The Sting, it takes a special kind of musician to breathe new life into “The Entertainer” or “Solace”—those Scott Joplin masterpieces that

Unearthing and Restoring One Step to Chicago: The Never-Before-Heard Album from Legendary Producer George Avakian

Bryan Wright June 28, 2022

Whenever some new discovery of historical interest is made, it always fascinates me to think that the newly uncovered thing was really there all along.

Organist Tony Thomas Accompanies Buster Keaton’s The Camerman in Pittsburgh

Bryan Wright April 21, 2019

On Saturday evening, April 6, 2019, an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 200 welcomed organist Tony Thomas to Pittsburgh for a highly anticipated screening of Buster

Bryan Wright

Royce Martin Charts a New Path for Ragtime

Unearthing and Restoring One Step to Chicago: The Never-Before-Heard Album from Legendary Producer George Avakian

Organist Tony Thomas Accompanies Buster Keaton’s The Camerman in Pittsburgh

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