Various Artists - Ragtime Wizardry: Volume 2 - 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