Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 27—Ragtime music is Adam Swanson's favorite. The pianist has made a career of paying homage to this genre. "Ragtime is the ...

There was a time when pianist Tom McDermott downplayed his affinity for ragtime composer Scott Joplin. For years, ragtime suffered from an image problem, a hokey stereotype of straw hats and Shakey’s ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --He plays the piano and composes music, but Reggie Robinson has barely had any formal music training. Yet he has become a master of ragtime. CBS 2's Harry Porterfield says he's Someone ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Max Morath, a Colorado Springs native who as a pianist and musical director championed ragtime music, and who around 1960 wrote, performed and co-produced 28 ...

Ragtime afficionados and musical history buffs from throughout the Bay Area will gather at the Moose Lodge in Pacifica on the evening of July 21, as Bob Milne, world-renowned ragtime piano player ...

A Mimi Blais show is not merely a piano concert. It’s an entire production. “I’m a very visual person, and I like to combine art,” says Blais, a ragtime pianist who brings in comedy, costumes and even ...

Were it not for ragtime composer Scott Joplin, Tom McDermott may not have evolved into one of New Orleans’ most respected pianists. Growing up in St. Louis, McDermott had, by age 14, spent seven years ...

Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, first taking ...

Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one of the ...

Nearly 30 years have passed since Ragtime first premiered on Broadway, but the musical's layered story about pluralism, opportunity, and the rule of law seems, if anything, more relevant now. The ...