The Easy Winners

Gunther Schuller & New England Ragtime Ensemble · 1973 · Rag de Joplin en orchestration de chambre

Context

Rag from 1901 whose title alludes to athletes supposedly winning effortlessly; its cover illustrates baseball, football, horse racing, and sailing. In February 1973 at Jordan Hall, Gunther Schuller conducted the New England Ragtime Ensemble in arrangements drawn from the 1912 "Standard High-Class Rags" for the album "The Red Back Book" (Capitol), 1973 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

By the same artist

• Sun Flower Slow Drag (1973)
• The Cascades (1973)
• Transformation (Gunther Schuller) (1957)

Sources

• EN: The Red Back Book
• EN: The Easy Winners

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