Bryan Wright playing Tiger Rag

Bryan Wright playing ragtime piano: "Tiger Rag" based on Jelly Roll Morton's version.

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• Bryan
• Wright
• Tiger
• Rag
• Jelly
• Roll
• Morton
• ragtime
• piano
• Original
• Dixieland
• Jass
• Band

[Wor45]

Does anyone know where i can find this piece? I have been looking for it for a long time. Any help would be great appreciated.

[rtpress]

I'm not sure if it's the same piece but if you google "Library of Congress Tiger Rag" it'll link you to an arrangement published in 1917 by Dominick James LaRocca.

Howard

[bwiggs6]

EXCELLENT PLAYING. MAN YOU SURE MAKE THE PIANO ROCK.

THANKS,bw

[1533marco]

What a magnificent performance of a very difficult tune. Marco.

[19Summers94]

Brilliant :) The best I have ever heard :D



[Ragtime4]

The reason I originally asked why you didn't say that Jelly Roll claimed to have wrote this tune is because he did claim to have been the one who first transformed it into Jazz. However, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band has credit for it.

There's some controversy there, so it's an interesting part of Jazz history for me.

[Ragtime4]

Ok, so being the "writer" of a tune means composing the original? You were absolutely right that in the Library of Congress recordings that Jelly Roll didn't say that he "wrote" Tiger Rag. I believe the word that he used was "transformed."

[bixvenuti]

Arranger? Yes. Adapter? Yes. Composer? I don't think so. If I created a jazz version of the theme from Dvorak's "New World Symphony," the tune would still be Dvorak's. BUT, we could argue this all day. I gave Jelly Roll plenty of credit for this arrangement in my intro (you'll notice it was clipped in this video). Besides, if you want to get really picky, Jelly Roll never "wrote" it at all since he never committed it to paper (as far as I know).

[Ragtime4]

If he adapted the quadrille into Jazz then doesn't that make him the writer of the Jazz version?

[bixvenuti]

Sorry, this arrangement has never been published :( Thanks for the kind words, though (this is Bryan)

[koolkat104]

Amazing job. Would you happen to know where I could get the sheet music for this?

[bixvenuti]

Thanks for the comment! (This is Bryan.) Jelly Roll made a lot of claims, but he never claimed to have written this. Listen to the LoC interviews with Alan Lomax in 1938. He says it was an old French quadrille that he adapted into jazz.