Gladiolus Rag

Joshua Rifkin · 1970 · Joplin rag (1907), the album that triggered the ragtime revival

Context

Scott Joplin rag from 1907 performed by Joshua Rifkin on Scott Joplin: Piano Rags, released by Nonesuch in November 1970. The album is considered the first to have reintroduced Joplin in the early 1970s and, carried by the film The Sting (1973), became Nonesuch's first million-seller. Rifkin, a pianist, conductor, and musicologist, also wrote its liner notes.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Ragtime. Among the origins and influences of Ragtime: Blues, spirituals, work songs.

Sources

• EN: Scott Joplin: Piano Rags
• EN: Joshua Rifkin

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