Various Artists - Ragtime Wizardry / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Building on the success of the original InchRagtime Wizardry,Inch Volume 2 features 18 more of today's top ragtime pianist-composers playing their own works in exclusive recordings made just for this special collection. The result is an entertaining and wonderfully diverse sampling of ragtime piano in the 21st century. While some of the compositions are firmly rooted in the structure and harmonic language of Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and their contemporaries, others draw inspiration from novelty piano, stride, rock, folk, classical, and other idioms. Each is infused with the distinct voice of it's composer. From the exuberant InchBomba WalkInch to the melancholic InchAllegheny RagInch to the folksy InchBrazos,Inch as John Stark might say, here is ragtime that is different!InchRagtime Wizardry, Volume 2Inch brings together many of today's most popular ragtime pianists and composers from around the world Tom Roberts, Jack Rummel, Ethan Uslan, Fred Hoeptner, Glenn Jenks, Tom Brier, Jack Bradshaw, Jacob Adams, Charlie Judkins, Michael Chisholm, Will Perkins, David Cavalari, Matthew Gillespie, Andrew Barrett, Dale Hadley, Kylan deGhetaldi, Michael Winstanley, Edward Maraga, and Domingo Mancuello. The CD package includes a handsome 24-page booklet with full program notes and biographies of each of the composers. 18 tracks. 68 minutes. Album Tracks 1. Quintessential Rag 2. Brazos 3. Divination Rag 4. Fairview Rag 5. Horse Teeth Rag 6. Flakey - a Ragtime Two-Step 7. Mercury Rag - a Nocturne 8. Septuagenarian Stroll 9. Portrait in Rag No. 4 - a Jingler 10. The Bomba Walk - a Syncopated Frenzy 11. Kitten Britches 12. Palisades Rag 13. Ragtime Whack-A-Mole 14. The Little St. Vrain 15. Allegheny Rag 16. Moustache on the Keys 17. Giant Slide Rag 18. Duffy

Fans can now revisit the conception of Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor's Null Corporation has teamed with UMe/The Bicycle Music Company to PRETTY HATE MACHINE 2010 REMASTER. After completing the score for David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Reznor oversaw the digital remastering of PRETTY HATE MACHINE from the newly unearthed original tapes with engineer Tom Baker (whose NIN credits include THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL, BROKEN, THE FRAGILE, WITH TEETH and GHOSTS). This remastered version includes an eleventh track, a cover of Queen's InchGet Down Make LoveInch, originally the B-side to the InchSinInch single and produced by Al Jourgensen. Rob Sheriden, NIN's longtime art director, has also re-imagined the packaging of PRETTY HATE MACHINE under Reznor's supervision. Album Tracks 1. Head Like a Hole 2. Terrible Lie 3. Down in It 4. Sanctified 5. Something I Can Never Have 6. Kinda I Want to 7. Sin 8. That's What I Get 9. The Only Time 10. Ringfinger 11. Get Down, Make Love (Queen Cover)

Victorian Gardens Ragtime is a collection of 19 original piano rags, most recorded here for the first time and bringing together many of today's most popular ragtime pianists and composers from around the world, including David Thomas Roberts, Fred Hoeptner, Carl Sonny Leyland, Kathi Backus, Vincent Matthew Johnson, Brian Holland, Tom Brier, Larisa Migachyov, Kylan deGhetaldi, Max Keenlyside, and many more in honor of beloved ragtime patron Arlo InchChipInch Lusby. The music is fresh and new, showcasing the rich diversity of ragtime today from boogie woogie and Terra Verde to stride and folk ragtime to the InchclassicInch ragtime styles of Joplin and Lamb; some of the pieces are warm and contemplative, others are rollicking and joyous. All share a commitment to lovingly-crafted melodies and captivating syncopations. Produced by Danny Matson and Bryan S. Wright. The CD package includes a handsome 32-page color booklet with full program notes and biographies of each of the composers. 19 tracks. 78 minutes. Album Tracks 1. Breezy Day (At Sutter Creek) 2. Skunk's Mardi Gras 3. Eureka! (I Have Found It) 4. Sutter Chip Rag 5. Sutter Creek Strut 6. Zinfandel Promenade 7. Church Street Rag 8. Victorian Lady's Lament 9. Skunk in the Parlor 10. Sutter Creep 11. Kidney Punch 12. Tipsy Moon 13. Skunk Hollow Capers 14. 50 Gold Dust Trail 15. Sweetest Skunk in the Hollow 16. On the Rocks 17. Skunk Hollow Blues 18. Skunk Hollow Rag 19. Victorian Gardens