This album presents ragtime as it was played by sophisticated professional musicians during the second decade of the twentieth-century, as distinct from the pianists from Missouri and Texas who were the founding-fathers of the form. James Reese Europe was the first outstanding negro bandleader in the US forming in 1910 the Clef Club Orchestra, then Europe
1 The Memphis Blues (Mister Crump), for Band
2 That Moaning Trombone, for Trombone & Band
3 The Hesitating Blues, Slow Drag for Band
4 Too Much Mustard (TR S Moutarde), One or Two-Step for Piano
5 Down Home Rag
6 Indianola, for Band
7 Darktown Strutter’s Ball
8 Slippery Place Rag
9 Georgia Sunset Cake-Walk, for Piano
10 Temptation Rag
11 The African 400 (An Educated Rag), for Band
12 The Ragtime Drummer, for Drums & Band
13 That Rag (A Ragged Two Step), for Band
14 The King of Rags, a Two-Step Oddity for Band
15 Canhanibalmo Rag, for Band