RHAPSODY IN
RAGTIME: Ragtime,
Novelty, Stride & Jazz
Piano Solos
Product Details
Label: Klavier Records
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Catalog Number: K 11164
1. Scott Joplin: Original Rags
2. Scott Joplin: The Entertainer
3. Fats Waller: Handful of Keys (trans. Posnak)
4. Bix Beiderbecke: In a Mist (trans. Challis)
5. Eubie Blake: Rhapsody in Ragtime (trans. Waldo)
6. George Gershwin: Rialto Ripples Rag (trans. Dowling)
7-9. Ferde Grofé: Three Shades of Blue (world premiere recording)
10. George Gershwin: Meadow Serenade (arr. Dowling)
11. Felix Arndt: Nola
12. Abram Chasins: Rush Hour in Hong Kong (from "Three Chinese Pieces")
13. Euday Bowman: 12th Street Rag
14. Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin' (trans. Posnak)
15. Fats Waller: The Jitterbug Waltz
16. Zez Confrey: Kinda Careless (aka Mississippi Shivers)
17. Zez Confrey: Fourth Dimension
18. Zez Confrey: Humorestless (trans. Dowling)
19. George Gershwin: Two Waltzes in C
20. Scott Joplin: Magnetic Rag
21. Eubie Blake: Charleston Rag (trans. Waldo)
Total time: 76:09
Track Listings (click red tracks for sound sample)
Album Description
Richard Dowling performs a variety of ragtime, novelty, stride & early
jazz piano solos. Included are many well-known works such as The
Entertainer, 12th Street Rag, Nola, and Ain't Misbehavin' plus many
other works by Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke, Zez Confrey,
and Eubie Blake. World premiere recording of Ferde Grofé's Three
Shades of Blue.
Recorded August 3-5 & 7, 2005 at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall,
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Produced by Clark McAlister and Richard Dowling
Engineering, Mastering and Editing: Bruce Leek
Piano: Steinway CD #269
Piano Technician: David J. Balko
Photo: Peter Schaaf
Cover Design: Keith Meinhold
Booklet Layout: Stacie A. Heyen
Blake titles are published by E.B. Marks Music.
Gershwin titles published by Alfred Music Publishing.
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