Ragtime
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Technically Ragtime isn't really jazz because it does not involve improvisation, but ragtime ran a parallel career to the early New Orleans jazz and featured similar melodies and rhythms. A simple way to look at ragtime is to consider it as a form of composed jazz, or possibly America's first classical music. Likewise, in a style similar to classical music, ragtime's rhythmic syncopations don't swing quite to the degree that they do in New Orleans jazz performance. Although ragtime first appeared in 1892, Scott Joplin would begin to dominate and define the genre in 1895.
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz opens with back to back renditions of Maple Leaf Rag by ragtime pianist Scott Joplin and early jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton. In these two performances of this same piece you can clearly hear the difference between ragtime and jazz as Morton's version swings with free abandon, while Joplin's stricter version is more similar to the European late romantic period style of Chopin.
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Artists with Ragtime release(s)
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BALES , BURT
United States
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BARGY, ROY
United States
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BARNHART, JEFF
United States
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BLAKE, EUBIE
United States
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BLOOM, RUBE
United States
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BOLLING, CLAUDE
France
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CONFREY, ZEZ
United States
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EPS , FRED VAN
United States
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JOPLIN, SCOTT
United States
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KELLER, SUE
United States
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KIRBY, SCOTT
United States
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LAMB, JOSEPH F.
United States
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LENT, JAMES
United States
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LINGLE, PAUL
United States
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MORATH, MAX
United States
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OSSMAN, VESS
United States
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RIFKIN, JOSHUA
United States
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ROBERTS, DAVID THOMAS
United States
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ROBINSON, REGINALD R.
United States
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SABATÉS, JORDI
Spain
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TURPIN, TOM
United States