Moscow Ragtime Band is the highest caliber example of a traditional jazz ensemble specializing in that one and only, hot and energetic music born in New Orleans at the dawn of the 20th century. The ...

Friday afternoon’s People’s Health Economy Hall Tent set by Lars Edegran and the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra featured charmingly vintage music, originally popular from the late 1890s through the ...

All over Duluth this weekend, musicians and audiences will be celebrating the American precursor to jazz, ragtime music, courtesy of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and its annual Ragtime Festival. ...

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...

When Joan Reynolds was in junior high school, one of the most popular movies at the time was “The Sting.” A budding pianist, she especially loved the ragtime music in the movie that included the ...

1. Shoot (1925) 2. Introduce Me (1916) 3. Pick a Chicken (1914) 4. Big Ben (1912) 5. I’m A Sentimental Dreamer (1921) 6. Taxi (1919) 7. More Candy (1917) 8. Persian Moon (1919) 9. Good Scout (1915) 10 ...

BLAMING MUSIC FOR social ills— especially violence—is nothing new. As early as the turn of the century, ragtime music was seen as the cause of everything from race riots to domestic violence to ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University Libraries will host the second annual Business of Music Symposium Feb. 21-22 as part of the 18th annual Charles H. Templeton Sr. Ragtime and Jazz ...

DULUTH — Max Morath, a practitioner and proponent of ragtime music who became a public television pioneer, died Monday morning at age 96. Max Morath, in a publicity photo from his years of national ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is ...

In tall and feathery words, an ecstatic esthete in the New Republic called it “New York’s most important musical event of several decades.” The music of Bunk Johnson was not as good as all that, but ...

Amarillo Little Theatre’s 'Ragtime' unites powerful performances, a 25-piece orchestra and timely messages about justice, hope and unity.