The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra – Creole Belles

Description

Release Date: 1994

Label: Arhoolie Records

Track List

1. Creole Belles
2. Black And White Rag
3. Purple Rose Of Cairo
4. War Cloud
5. Maple Leaf Rag
6. High Society
7. The Entertainer
8. The Ragtime Dance
9. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
10. My Maryland
11. The Chrysanthemum
12. Panama
13. Wall Street Rag
14. Love Will Find A Way
15. Rubber Plant Rag
16. You Can’t Have It, I Don’t Want It
17. Tickled To Death
18. The Junk Man Rag
19. Winin’ Boy Blues
20. St. Louis Tickle
21. Hindustan
22. Ethiopia
23. Red Pepper
24. Pickles And Peppers

Personnel

• Lars Edegran – leader, piano, banjo, guitar
• William Russell – violin
• Lionel Ferbos – trumpet, vocals
• Orange Kellin – clarinet
• Paul Crawford – trombone
• Frank Fields – bass
• Richard Payne – bass, tuba
• John  Robichaux – drums, vocals

Notes

The repertory of the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, formed in 1967, focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century American ragtime music. Combining African rhythms with traces of post-Civil War marches and Euro-American dances, ragtime music is characterized by its syncopated rhythm or “ragged time” beat. Originally played as piano music, it was taken up by brass, wind, string, and percussion instruments. In this compilation, the first segment recorded in 1971 and the second in 1989, the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra plays both well-known and lesser-known music from the ragtime era.