King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) played by Max Keenlyside (HQ audio)

Max's parents used his high-quality digital recorder to capture the audio of this performance, and, since I shot video of it, we decided to synchronize that audio with my video.

"ragtimemax" is another of those amazing teenage ragtime performers. He hails from Prince Edward Island, Canada, and made his first trip to the West Coast Ragtime Festival this November, where this performance took place as part of the Youth Concert.

Max is co-founder of a sheet music publishing firm, the Authentic Ragtime Company -- http://www.authenticragtime.com -- along with Jaime Cardenas ("ragtimebuddy").

The piano is a 9-foot Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand.

According to Lottie Joplin, this was a tune that Jelly Roll and Porter King had sent to Scott Joplin asking for assistance, which Joplin gave and sent an updated manuscript back to Morton, but King had passed away in the mean time. So it's possible that Joplin had a hand in this tune as well.

This actually was the only piano performance during an actual festival venue of which I shot video this year; everything else was after-hours! Max had told me that if I shoot video of something that he gets on his audio recorder, we should combine the two, so I made sure to get something of him playing just in case he was recording it too.

Since I had no other place to put them, I included three photographs that I shot at the festival during a jam session in the musicians' lounge.

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[professor314]

Where is the stomping?

[Keeper1st]

@professor314 A "stomp" is a type of music; it doesn't necessarily mean the performer is doing any stomping.

[Doug19752533]

Jelly Roll said in an interview in the 40s that Scott Joplin helped him compose parts of this piece. Joplin most likely wrote a basic melody with harmonic progressions, and Morton then rearranged and played it in his own special way.

[rogercallard]

@timzydecozahn You could have a great left hand if you could stretch to reach an 11th with your pinky & thumb too. I'm waiting for Max to post some Fats Waller renditions.

[buffalobilly]

beyond perfect

[Euroracer1]

Perfect

[timzydecozahn]

Very nice rendition. A great left hand too!

[MASSYrag]

the best! goog job :)

[MrMaxElvis]

wow wow wow!!! xD very goooood!

[Corrie121]

Astounding performance.

Thanks for sharing.