Bunch of Rags (1898)

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1. Ma Ragtime Baby (1899)

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7. Creole Belles

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2. Ragtime Skedaddle (1901?)

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3. Rusty rags (1901)

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4. Any Rags? (1903)

[Tobin S.]

5. Is that recording from 1898 or is that just when the piece was composed?

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6. I think it may actually be Ossman's 1898 recording

Some old discs can be is good shaped, and intelligent electronic filtering of the output might remove some pops and scratches

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8. This is musical history

Even so, the best ragtime I ever heard was about 50 years ago when Joshua Rifkin recorded Scott Joplin's ragtime tunes played at the unhurried tempo that Joplin (in all likelihood) intended:

These might take a little getting used to if all you know are sped-up versions used
for films or soundtracks.

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9. Those are great!