Ragtimers today usually refer to this as the "50's rag revival," and generally frown on this period, as it devalued the music and made it into something it really wasn't. They started pushing this image of the saloon piano player, who wears garters and a bowler hat, who sits on an out of tune piano, and plays everything at lightning speed, just to impress the crowd. However, in doing this, they cheapened the music. Usually played was everything from "In the Good Old Summertime" (A Tin Pan Alley pop song in 3/4 time) to "12th Street Rag" (A pure, real rag), "The Original Boogie Woogie" (A boogie-woogie piece) and calling it all the same thing, "honky-tonk" and playing it as fast as they can. These were "perffessors" that could belt out "old-timey" songs. You can find the recording here.Ī new breed of musicians started popping up the "honky-tonk" piano players. So it eventually ended as a piano solo with rhythm." Their recording of "Black and White Rag" was their biggest hit.
Watters (the band leader) thought maybe it would be better if the piano played it alone. It was clumsy on the horns and out of range and all kinds of stuff. In 1942, they decided to play this wonderful new piece they had discovered: it was George Botsford's 1908 composition, "Black and White Rag." They couldn't play it with the whole band, and as pianist Wally Rose remembered, ".never seemed to quite well go off too well with the band. The first credited "traditional" jazz band from this revival era was the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. Suddenly, there was a group of people who felt that jazz had "gone astray from its origins." A new type of jazz was founded, usually called "traditional jazz," or "Dixieland jazz." In doing this, most of these bands rediscovered something else entirely: ragtime. This was what is often described as "the big band era" by most musical historians, and was the playing field of such names as Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman. Jazz had now turned into something totally different than what the first jazz musicians had envisioned, created, and recorded. In the early 1940s however, a change happened.
Except for the occasional recording of "Maple Leaf Rag," "Tiger Rag," or "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by a jazz band or pianist, ragtime was by and large forgotten. After that, jazz took off, and ragtime was more or less forgotten for the next 20 to 30 years or so. Larocca had composed, the "Tiger Rag," ( a recording of it can be found here).
In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band released their arrangement of a popular piece that their pianist D. The musical style known as ragtime was popular between the years of c.1896-1917.
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