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Title: Joseph Lamb: A Study in Classic Ragtime
Artist: Joseph Lamb
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070356221
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2012-05-30
Number of Discs: 1

Joseph Lamb (1887-1960) is considered one of the three great composers of ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and James Scott. Between 1908 and 1919, while living in Montclair, New Jersey, and working in a New York City fabric house, Joe Lamb composed some of the most brilliant ragtime tunes published in America. However, he never released a recording until this one, made in his Brooklyn living room on an upright Knabe piano only a year prior to his death. Lamb, like the other great ragtime composers, considered improvisation to be a trick of "low-class" players. He played the rags on this recording not from memory, but from the written music he had composed years earlier, to be sure of playing every note he had written. The liner notes describe Lamb's development as a ragtime composer, as well as a brief biography.

Tracks:
1.1 Cottontail Rag
1.2 Excelsior Rag
1.3 Cleopatra Rag
1.4 The Meeting with Scott Joplin
1.5 Sensation - a Rag
1.6 Arthur Marshall, Artie Mathews, James Scott
1.7 Topliner Rag
1.8 The Alaskan Rag
1.9 The Composition of "Nightingale"
1.10 The Ragtime Nightingale
1.11 American Beauty Rag
1.12 The Naming of Contentment
1.13 Contentment Rag
1.14 Patricia Rag