Larry Kart Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 As good as Joplin but different. https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Ragtime-Rare-Piano-Rolls/dp/B0015LBBE2/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1542076599&sr=1-2&keywords=james+scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Biograph is generally one of the few reliable companies when it comes to reproducing rolls. Does it say who did the setup? Used to be an incredible guy named Mike Montgomery but he's been dead a few years. And btw, if you are looking for non-Joplin Ragtime, you might also look out for Joseph Lamb; a white student of Joplin, he recorded for Folkways (or one of those labels) in the late 1950s when Sam Charters found him living in Queens - and, weirdest of all, his daughter Pat, in her 90s, lives only a few miles from where I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted November 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 On 11/13/2018 at 8:46 PM, AllenLowe said: Biograph is generally one of the few reliable companies when it comes to reproducing rolls. Does it say who did the setup? Used to be an incredible guy named Mike Montgomery but he's been dead a few years. And btw, if you are looking for non-Joplin Ragtime, you might also look out for Joseph Lamb; a white student of Joplin, he recorded for Folkways (or one of those labels) in the late 1950s when Sam Charters found him living in Queens - and, weirdest of all, his daughter Pat, in her 90s, lives only a few miles from where I do. Montgomery and Trebor Tichenor did the set up, rolls were from their collections. I know of Lamb to some degree, have a latter day CD of his work played by a female pianist, maybe Virginia Eskin? Trebor and my late pianist friend Bob Wright, hailed by Eubie Blake as the best ragtime pianist of his generation, were friends-scholarly collaborators. Also, Trebor's daughter made at least one excellent CD of rags; she's got the right stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 yes, Eskin did the Lamb CD. And if Montgomery and Tichenor did the rolls, that's good. Another thing to beware of are some old piano rolls supposedly made by Joplin himself, but which were not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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