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The World's Finest Apples- "While We Danced at the Mardi Gras"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKz1Rn74RpY

Jazz while in motion.

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Maria & Margot Hellwig - Das Leben ist ein Lied 1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYf0H8jIHk

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This is not everyone's cup of tea but it keeps us OAPs alive in Spain !
https://youtu.be/bZd8IJo8mpc

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Am Kamin = At the fireside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xxYRuJmlxA

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Perhaps Leander can help you chill by casting your fate to the wind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWV7oLoljKw

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Leander is clearly a very talented young man, but I think some of his performances would sound better if he slowed down. This applies particularly to ragtime pieces such as Fig Leaf Rag, whose composer Scott Joplin regularly included in his manuscripts the instructions “Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.” Leander himself raised this question in the pinned comment on the YouTube page:

Leander-piano wrote:

Also tell me if you think I am playing this song too fast. I am working on playing some songs more slowly. I get so excited about songs that I play them too fast sometimes.

I heard some people play this quite slowly.

I was first introduced to ragtime through Scott Joplin’s piece The Entertainer, which was famously used in the movie The Sting. For me, the definitive versions of that and other Joplin compositions were played by Joshua Rifkin, but I’ve now discovered the equally listenable Scott Kirby. Both played Fig Leaf Rag at a considerably slower pace than young Leander plays it.

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Yes, I agree. Leander does tend to play rags too fast. But that does not detract from his talent. And he really does seem to enjoy himself playing. His expressions are priceless!

One of the best interpreters of rags on piano is, in my opinion, Ann Charters. For instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsY737Y4A9U

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GB wrote:

Yes, I agree. Leander does tend to play rags too fast. But that does not detract from his talent. And he really does seem to enjoy himself playing. His expressions are priceless!

One of the best interpreters of rags on piano is, in my opinion, Ann Charters. For instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsY737Y4A9U

He certainly does seem to enjoy playing, almost always with that infectious grin not far away!

Whilst his ragtime is too fast for us, his boogie woogie timing sounds just right to me:

https://youtu.be/s7uIjEz8n1E

Thanks for the link to the Ann Charters performance.

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One of the best interpreters of rags on piano is, in my opinion, Ann Charters. For instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsY737Y4A9U

Another fine performance of an old favourite:

https://youtu.be/hHHCb5tAhd4

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Alfred wrote:

I was first introduced to ragtime through Scott Joplin’s piece The Entertainer, which was famously used in the movie The Sting. For me, the definitive versions of that and other Joplin compositions were played by Joshua Rifkin, but I’ve now discovered the equally listenable Scott Kirby. Both played Fig Leaf Rag at a considerably slower pace than young Leander plays it.

Perhaps top of the list for me, Joplin’s very last composition: Magnetic Rag

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