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| 1123.1 | Might as well talk to myself... | HUMAN::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Mon Mar 21 1988 19:29 | 8 |
| Well, to answer my own request, today I picked up a new Rag-time
CD, again from Angel.
Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book � Elite Syncopations
Angel
CDC-7 47193 2
JimB.
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| 1123.2 | 1093.12 copied here | HUMAN::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Mon Mar 21 1988 22:19 | 38 |
| Since the title of this note may make it easier to find these
than the original discussion to which it was posted, I have taken
the liberty of reproducing 1093.12 here:
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COOKIE::ROLLOW "Be Bad or Be Management." 31 lines 21-MAR-1988 21:29
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In no particular order the titles are:
EMI CDC 7 47199 2 - Digital Ragtime, performed by Joshua
Rifkin - Wallstreet Rag ,The Southland Stingers.
EMI CDC 7 47093 2 - Gladrags, Compositions by Scott Joplin,
George Gershwin & Will Donaldson, James P. Johnson
performed on two pianos by Katia & Marielle Labeque,
arrangements by Francois Jeanneau.
Phillips 822.506-2 - "Ragtime Boogie-Woogie Jazz Classics",
Claude Bolling (yes it is 506 instead of 406).
MCA MCAD 1625 - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Sting.
Nonesuch 9 79159-2 - Scott Joplin Piano Rags - Performed by
Joshua Rifkin.
Another disc that has some ragtime, but no Joplin is:
Nonesuch 79006-2 - Paul Jacobs plays Blues, Ballads & Rags,
American Music for Piano by William Bolcom, Aaron
Copland, Frederick Rzewski.
Another interesting disc you might want to try:
Ivory Records IRD 9188 - Sandy Owen, Boogie Woogie, Rhythm &
Blues - Ensemble & Solo Piano.
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| 1123.3 | Movie soundtrack for "Ragtime" ?? | VEEJAY::ECTOR | Ethnomusicologist Jr. | Tue Mar 22 1988 00:22 | 11 |
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I'm wondering (speaking of ragtime), it there was ever a soundtrack
released from the movie "Ragtime." Caught bits of the movie again
recently, and found myself really paying attention to the music,
rather than the action. Lot's of Joplin in it. It'd certainly be
a soundtrack that I'd enjoy.
The Cruiser
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| 1123.4 | Ragtime futures | SMURF::BINDER | Popular culture is an oxymoron. | Thu Mar 31 1988 09:30 | 8 |
| I talked with my "inside man" at RCA yesterday (Mar 30, '88) and learned
from him that RCA's September release schedule includes one 60+ CD of
pieces from the Dick Hyman 5-LP set of the complete Joplin piano works,
to be issued on the Gold Seal label. This is primo stuff - I've never
heard anyone else who (in my opinion) understood ragtime so well as
Hyman. The list of titles for the CD is not yet definite.
- Dick
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| 1123.5 | More Rags | HUMAN::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Sat Aug 06 1988 22:52 | 16 |
| I've picked up two more:
Scott Joplin's Greatest Hits
John Arpin
ProArte
CDD 397
Rags to Riches
John Arpin & Catherine Wilson
ProArte
CDD 400
I've also heard tha Canadian Brass has a ragtime CD. No other
details at this time.
JimB.
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| 1123.6 | Two more: one brass, and a budget disc | MOUNTN::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Sun Nov 20 1988 18:06 | 36 |
| Two more, and one more (the Nonesuch Joshua Rifkin) on the way I
hope. (If not I really hope it's on sale after Christmas).
Encore
The Canadian Brass
CBC Enterprises
MVCD1011
This disc isn't all Joplin or even all Ragtime. There is, for
instance, some Bach and Handel, and a Cakewalk attributed to
Claude Debussy.
The Entertainer--the Ragtime music of Scott Joplin
and George Gershwin
Paul Schoenfield (on the Joplin) and George Gershwin
Quintessence
CDQ 2019
The performances on this album are not particularly inspired,
but that can readily be excused in the case of the Gershwin
pieces. The original recording medium for those 5 pieces was
player piano roll. Given the limitaions of piano rolls,
Gershwin's performance of his own works is quite enjoyable.
As to the Jopln pieces, they include several standards that
I already have several copies of--the Entertainer, Maple
Leaf Rag and the Easy Winners for instance--in uninspired
performances (the Gershwin piano rolls have more emotion
to them), but it does include two cuts--Palm Leaf Rag and
Swipesy--that I don't have on any other disc.
It was easily worth the $6.29 I paid for it last week at
Lechemere's, but I wouldn't have been nearly as interested
add the higher prices of most other discs.
JimB.
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| 1123.7 | I'm up to a dozen now. | BRONS::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Wed Jan 11 1989 10:52 | 39 |
| Well, I now have two more:
Scott Joplin Piano Rags
Joshua Rifkin
Nonesuch
9 79159-2
This disk contains 17 cuts from Rifkin's Joplin LPs. It's quite
good, but I'd have been willing to pay for a 2-CD set that had
all of the pieces on it. This one's missing a half dozen. For a
ver brief time, this was my favorite Joplin CD. Then I got...
The Entertainer
Scott Joplin
Biograph
BCD 101
This disk is subtittled "Classical Ragtime From Rare Piano
Rolls". It's a DDD recording made directly from a player piano.
(I guess that makes it a DA-DDD, digitally recorded on paper in
about 1916 and transcribed through a 1910 Steinway 65/88 note
D-to-A converter.)
The first three pieces on the disk were recorded from rolls cut
by Joplin himself in 1916. He plays them like no one else I've
heard. They're easily my favorite recordings of his work. The
medium does have its limitations, but the whole disc is
excellent. The only flaw I can find in it is that you can hear
the bellows a bit in the background.
The liner notes indicate that there are three other rolls with
rags played by Joplin himself and that they are on "Elite
Syncopations", BCD 102, so I suppose this can be regarded as the
first of a two volume set.
I recommend this CD quite highly. If you like ragtime, you
mustn't miss the opportunity to hear Joplin play Joplin.
JimB.
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