I have gathered a number of outstanding Compact Disks that relate to the interests of roll collectors and ragtime / blues music fans, which I am pleased to offer here. Most of these recordings are from the studio of Richard Riley and his PianoMania label, which specializes in today's ragtime and early blues piano performers. Most of my Front Porch piano rolls originate from MIDI recordings made by Richard, and you can hear the original recordings which inspired my rolls on a number of these CD's.
These CD's are priced at $15 each. They will be shipped free of charge when combined with a piano roll order of any size, or separately for a flat rate of $2 postage & handling for any size order.
PianoMania Music
A Ragtime Primer
featuring performances by today's leading ragtime pianists: Trebor
Tichenor, David Thomas Roberts, Scott Kirby, Frank French, Richard
Zimmerman, John Gill, Max Morath, Morten Gunnar Larsen and others!
(PianoMania CD-123) DDD (digitally recorded)
This massive single CD clocks in at over 70 minutes and covers Folk, Classic, Popular, Eastern, Jelly Roll Morton, and New ragtime styles. The booklet is an outstanding 28-page mini-history of ragtime, written by Richard Zimmerman, Trebor Tichenor and David Thomas Roberts. This disk comes very highly recommended.
57 Diff'rent Kinds of Blues
featuring performances by 12 different pianists, including
most of those listed for A Ragtime Primer plus Gale Foehner, Mike
Montgomery , Tom Brier, Molly Kaufmann, and others.
(PianoMania CD-130) DDD (digitally recorded)
Another highly recommended CD due to it's broad coverage of the very interesting early blues period. This CD includes the original recording of Aunt Hagar's Blues played by Jim Hession, the MIDI file of which was used to create the Front Porch piano roll listed elsewhere in this flyer.
Frontiers - New World Piano Music
played by Frank French, Scott Kirby and David Thomas Roberts
(PianoMania CD-124) DDD (digitally recorded)
In this case New World means American, and this features compositions by the artists in addition to Gottschalk, Joplin, Morton, Scott, Lamb and Nazareth. Very interesting material in a tasteful compilation.
Hot Jazz, Pop Jazz and Ragtime
Morten Gunnar Larsen, piano
(PianoMania CD-104) DDD (digitally recorded)
Morten plays ragtime & New Orleans trad. pieces by Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Joplin, Lamb, and several others. The disk is over 60 minutes long (67:35 to be exact), and all Morten Gunnar Larsen. Need I say more?