I'm about 20% of the way through learning the Black & White Rag (George Botsford, 1908) in a duo arrangement by Deborah Greenblatt. I uploaded a recording of the part I've got so far. Now on to the variations that make up the rest of the song! http://soundcloud.com/brent-hutto/blackwhiterag P.S. I will admit to one "cheat" on this recording. Near the end there's a spot where I had to snip about 2-1/2 beats worth of dead space out of the part that in the left channel. I normally try to record things as an honest rendering of how I played it but got impatient this time around, sorry.
That's an attractive arrangement and very well played Brent. The version I have seen has three sections and the last two are pretty difficult so I look forward to hearing the rest of the piece.
This piece was popularised in the fifties by Winifred Attwell. The first and third sections are in the key of G and the second in the key of C. The third section is very difficult so I had to record it separately on a Gremlin.
Well done, both. Ragtime is so evocative as a musical form. Loved the appearance of Winifred Atwell in your clip, M.
Loved your B part, MM. What a happy bit of music, a real toe-tapper.
