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Levee piano players "professors, " they were called cracked their knuckles before plucking out the hiccupped notes of ragtime.
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From ragtime to modern fusion, jazz music has always relied on one staple instrument: the piano.
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The idea to swap Scott Joplin for Jay-Z and ragtime for rap was a bold and brilliant choice.
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Shot in muted, muddy browns and with a jaunty ragtime score by Randy Newman, "Leatherheads" is artfully constructed but tediously self-conscious.
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From ragtime to rock, from Bach to brand-new compositions, violinist Leila Josefowicz says that she has fun playing it all.
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When the war ended in 1865, all of these musical styles blended to form a new genre called ragtime, which syncopated the rhythms of previous genres and made songs that everyone wanted to dance to.
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Ragtime was for riffraff.
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In later years, on stage, Hines rarely spoke about his big band, instead preferring to talk about what he called "trumpet-style piano, " in which he followed the lines of a horn soloist rather than approximating a full orchestra, as the ragtime and stride pianists were then doing.
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