Ragtime buffs: any recommendations?

[firepanda]

I know this board is mostly classical, but I was hoping some people here were familiar with ragtime. 

I've always played classical music and while I enjoy it, it's seriously stunted my ability to improvise and play by ear.  I'm now looking to diversify, particularly into jazz.  I've already learnt Maple Leaf and Entertainer, since they are by far the best two known tunes.  Did anyone else enjoy playing any other ragtime pieces?

[cwjalex]

i like temptation rag by henry lodge.  it was the first rag i learned and first piece i played in a recital. 

[ted]

The complete rags of Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb are all readily available in various editions now. However, a huge amount of excellent ragtime has been written over the last thirty years. I suggest David Thomas Roberts, Frank French, Hal Isbitz and Reginald Robinson for you to explore. Scores and recordings are on the internet in various places, including the websites of the composers.

It is not exactly ragtime, but you might also like to study the complete transcriptions of Morton's solos by Dapogny, published by the Library of Congress. Just about all the big stride solos of Waller, Johnson and others have now been accurately transcribed by several people, among whom John Farrell was particularly outstanding.

Contemporary ragtime, Morton and stride transcriptions, and indeed many of the Scott rags, require a pretty advanced technique compared to that needed for Joplin's works.

[visitor]

[visitor]

Have always gravitated towards Bolcom's modern sound.  Here is an excerpt froma great suite he did called garden if eaden

FYI 'dat percussion effect at about 3-3:40 or so,  so cool!!

[goldentone]

FYI 'dat percussion effect at about 3-3:40 or so,  so cool!!

That's a cool piece.   A little multitasking percussive improv when life makes its artful demands.  Notice the gentility.

[indianajo]

I do Joplin's Magnetic Rag and Paragon Rag. Not very creative I know, but I own the sheet music and learned those before Maple Leaf.  I used to do these every night after dinner for strength training, but tendon inflammation in my sixth decade is stopping that practice. 
I don't do the Entertainer and the movie version was such a disaster IMHO, I'm not going to learn it.  People would recognize it and be disappointed that I didn't pause as frequently as that movie sountrack wimp.  IMHO Joplin is not Chopin. 
I like to listen to Fats Waller but haven't run across his book yet.  I heard a nice pipe organ version of one of his pieces performed by the organist of the Paris American church on tour in Indiana.