Tom Turpin (St Louis Rag, 1903) Ragtime Piano Legend

[Thelochias2]

This is my favorite rag ever

[Thelochias2]

This is my favorite rag ever!

[fossilbox1991]

can someone tell me what meter this is, the texture, and the style? please and thanks

[Thelochias2]

h t t p: / /b i t .l y / y A V 5 9 o (Remove Spaces) this is the link to the sheet music hope this helps!

[0276boy]

NICE. This is obviously a roll. Very very cool.  Thanks!

[browser240669]

Nice peace as such bit compared to the Rags of James Scot is it a bit boring...

[ihatespide]

i thought this was scot joplin?

[sltzbgh]

I'm a late-comer as Tom Turpin fans go, but the St. Louis Rag is one composition I have never heard arranged for orchestra. Has such an arrangement ever been recorded?

[sltzbgh]

I'm a late-comer as Tom Turpin fans go, but the St. Louis Rag is one composition I have never heard arranged for orchestra. Has such an arrangement ever been recorded?

[paragraphthree]

This is stupendous!

[paragraphthree]

This is stupendous1

[Mrdepointer]

I have the BluesTone copy of this piano roll in my collection. Tom Turpin was the owner of the Rosebud Bar in the 'sporting house' district of St. Lous. His compositions are small in number, but he was, according historians, a very skilled ragtime pianist.  Thax for posting!

[Mrdepointer]

I have this Piano roll in my collection.

[FamilyPrisonerBlues]

Is he African American (or atleast HALF) too? He looks like he could be a mixed person to me.

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

@FamilyPrisonerBlues He was half, black and white (one of the parent was african-american).

[Skeedaddy91]

hey can someone indicate me an example of "Stride piano" and another more similar to what was called "piano novelty"? I'm reading a chapter about ragtime and I'd like to listen to something that could make me actually understand what I'm doing...sounds very interesting! thanks for sharing :)

[InevitableItWas]

@Skeedaddy91 Look up James P. Johnson or Fats Waller piano solos, they represent the epitome of stride piano style.

[NEWK18]

man i love this rag! one of my personal favorites!

[Gianluke01]

carina . . . assomiglia a joplin

[Mr98giuliano]

@Gianluke01 è vero(secondo me Tom Turpin ha preso dal grande Scott)

[BrannonMcConkey]

Yeah I figured as much. Clean sound, no cracks. Still impressive. Thanks for all these man. People need to understand this history.

[BrannonMcConkey]

1903...damn. Got anything that breaks the century?

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

I must specify that this rag was composed in 1903, but I don't know the recording date. Anyway, this is a piano roll performance.

[KawhackitaRag]

This is from the LP "Piano Roll Ragtime" issued by Sounds Records of Glendale, CA in the mid-1970's. I'd guess the player piano recording was made at about that time. The roll itself sounds like a 65-note roll (which were made from about 1897 to 1915 in the U.S.), and this one is very probably from 1903, made when the rag was first published. It is not a handplayed roll but is an "arranged" roll which an anonymous roll company employee made using the drafting-board method.

[victrolaman]

@KawhackitaRag So if I understand what you are saying. Tom Turpin is not actually playing this composition for the piano roll ? This is an arranged performance where the notes were punched out on the Roll Master by an employee of the Company ?

Victrolaman