Bill Westcott
Early Rags - Early Blues
© 1998 York University
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Early Jazz, Blues and Rags, stylish and primal.
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- 1 Mule Face Rag
- 2 Organ Grinder Blues
- 3 Cooney Vaughan's Tremblin' Blues
- 4 Suitcase Blues
- 5 Medley: Di Provenza/Maple Leaf Rag
- 6 Yancey's Fives
- 7 Downhearted Blues
- 8 State Street Special
- 9 Medley: the 44s/Memphis Blues/Heifeir Dust
- 10 Rice Hotel
- 11 Magnetic Rag
- 12 Cow Cow Blues
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During the early years of the 20th century while critics and audiences were working hard to understand the innovations of modern European composers, an entirely new tradition of serious expressive music was coalescing right around them. African-American pianists from the southern and mid-western United States were bringing together elements of folk, popular and classical music to create an important foundation for the later development of jazz.
This recording energetically re-creates the style and mood of the period by offering ragtime and blues selections which illustrate the variety and original substance of the music. A number of selections are very close to the original recorded versions of the music (learned from note-for-note transcriptions of the music) while others, especially those older examples drawn from early published sheet music, have grown and changed in the artist’s imagination over many years of performance.