Blue Rag in 12 Keys

Eubie Blake · 1969 · Blake joue le même rag dans douze tonalités

Context

Wally Rose opens his album "Ragtime Classics" with this piece from Jelly Roll Morton's repertoire, recorded in Los Angeles on February 17, 1953, for Good Time Jazz. On it he alternates rags by Joplin and James Scott with pieces by Morton.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Ragtime, Stride (Harlem piano). Among the origins and influences of Ragtime: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Quadrille and cakewalk.

By the same artist

• Charleston Rag (1969)
• Tricky Fingers (1969)
• Spanish Venus (1969)

Sources

• EN: The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake

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