Inhalt:
Ragtime is in many ways the quintessential American music. It arrived at the turn of the last century with many transitions, notably the discovery of the means to record sound, and the determination of Afro-Americans of genius to be appreciated as artists. The music we call ragtime represents not only a moment of great anticipation (as the advent of jazz was on hand) but also of fulfillment. There are perhaps, 200 classic ragtime pieces that represent a corpus of extraordinary beauty - some of the most straightforward, melodious, and out and out joyful music that there ever was. In the early 1960s guitar players started to tackle arranging this music. David Laibman and Dave Van Ronk were in the vanguard of this movement. Van Ronks arrangement of St. Louis Tickle became a rite of passage for fingerstyle guitarists. Laibmans arrangements of Scott Joplins classic rags amazed and challenged the fingerpickers from coast to coast and across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. By the 1970s other guitarists tried their skills playing ragtime. In the last fifty years this pursuit has carried on. This collection presents eight outstanding guitarists and their approaches to arranging and playing cake walks and classic rags. Tackling the material in this collection will greatly help your development and mastery of the fretboard and what Rev. Gary Davis called your six-string piano. Both your hands will get a complete aerobic workout! An audio download link is included with performances of each title.
1. Rémi Balsacq
2. After the Cakewalk
3. Cotton Bolls
4. The Sun Do Move
5. Walkin On De Rainbow Road
6. Steve McWilliam
7. Peaches And Cream
8. Steven Hicks
9. Temptation Rag
10. Kinklets A Ragtime Two Step
11. Carries Gone to Kansas City
12. Cracked Ice Rag
13. Dorian Henry
14. Alabama Peach Carnival
15. Columbia Rag
16. Echoes From The Snowball Club
17. International Cake Walk
18. Lasse Johansson
19. Junk Man Rag
20. Russian Rag
21. Dick Fegy
22. Bowery Buck
23. Kismet Rag
24. Leo Wijnkamp
25. Hilarity Rag
26. The Sycamore A Concert Rag
27. David Laibman
28. Gladiolus Rag
29. Magnetic Rag
30. Ethiopia Rag
31. Ragtime Nightingale
32. Contentment Rag
33. Pleasant Moment Ragtime Waltz
34. Ragtime Oriole