Little Bit of Soul Episode March 14, 2016

Ragtime Rolls Around

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Oxford Reference offers the definition of ragtime to be "Music characterized by a syncopated melodic line and regularly accented accompaniment...". Let's take a look at the innovators, at how this style and these rhythms became popular, and how these lines branched out into influencing other music, eventually giving birth the jazzzzzzzz.

Track Listing:

Original Rags
Scott Joplin · Dixieland Jazz
18- 35
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin · Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
Crazy Rhythmn
Crazy Otto · Crazy Otto Plays Crazy Tunes
Bugle Call Rag
Teddy Wilson · Don't Blame Me
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Bessie Smith · The Essential Bessie Smith [Disc 2]
B Flat Blues
Fats Waller · Happy Birthday Fats [Disc 1]
The Legendary Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers · Maple Leaf Rag
Twelfth Street Rag
Count Basie & His Orchestra · The Essential Count Basie
Tiger Rag
Charles Dornberger & His Orchestra · Dixieland Jazz
Tiger Rag (Live)
Louis Armstrong · The Incomparable
Mama's Gone, Goodbye
Jen Hodge All Stars · Guilty Pleasures
Diga Diga Doo
Jen Hodge All Stars · Guilty Pleasures
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blues
Curtis, Denny "Dinty" and Landry, Art & His Orchestra · Charleston Era: The Definitive Album
Milky White Way
The Trumpeteers · The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol.1
Will You Be Mine
The Swallows · The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol. 2- Birdland