Original Ragtime



In March 1966, Claude Bolling recorded these twelve rags, among the finest ones ever written, as you may judge by listening to the MIDI files that follow. The files which I have sequenced are closer to Claude Bolling's performances than the original musics. Click on a title to listen.

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 Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
L. Wolfe Gilbert - Lewis F. Muir (1912)
 On the Mississippi
Harry Carroll - Arthur Fields (1912)
 Mississippi Rag
William H. Krell (1897)
Temptation Rag
Henry Lodge (1909)
 Canadian Capers
Gus Chandler - Bert White - Henry Cohen (1915)
 Perfect Rag
Ferdinand Lemott (ou La menthe) dit "Jelly Roll Morton" (1924)
 Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin (1897 - publié en 1899)
 Kitten on the Keys
Zez Confrey (1921)
 Harlem Strut
James Price Johnson (1917)
Cataract Rag
Robert Hampton (1914)
Saint Louis Rag
Thomas Million Turpin
dit "Le Metronome" (1903)
The Entertainer's Rag
Jay Roberts (1910)

Claude Bolling also played the following rags:

 Chantecler Rag
Claude Bolling
 Modernistic Rag
Claude Bolling
 The Jazz Master
by Billy Mayerl
 Roll Jelly Roll
Claude Bolling
 Carolina Shout
James P. Johnson