Biography

Pianist Scott Joplin looms large in musical history as the creator of ragtime music and consequently the main inspiration for the subsequent birth of jazz. Traveling around the midwest, the Texas-born Joplin was the first to popularize the fusion of an African-American, blues-derived feel with a more European structural aesthetic--in layman's terms, ragtime. Starting in the 1890s, Joplin began publishing such iconic works as "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer," which would become cornerstones of American popular music. Joplin died in 1917, right around the time his innovations were being incorporated into early jazz.

Top Tracks

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• Bink's Waltz

• Elite Syncopations

• Elite Syncopations, For Piano

• I Am Thinking Of My Pickanniny Days

• Kismet Rag, For Piano (collaboration With Scott Hayden)

• Maple Leaf Rag

• Maple Leaf Rag, For Piano

• Pleasant Moments

• Rosebud March

• School Of Ragtime, Excercises (6) For Piano

• Scott Joplin's New Rag, For Piano

• Solace

• Sunflower Slow Drag

• The Cascades

• The Chrysanthemum

• The Entertainer

• The Entertainer, For Piano

• The Ragtime Dance, Stoptime Two-step For Piano

• Treemonisha, Opera In 3 Acts~medley Of Highlights

• Treemonisha, Opera In 3 Acts~real Slow Drag,a

• Wall Street Rag, For Piano

Discography

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