[Dixielandjazz] This Is Ragtime

[Snogpitch]

I too enjoyed the Waldo book.  I was fortunate enough to live near a PBS
radio station in the 70s that aired Waldo's This is Ragtime show.  Finding
the book years later was a flashback to the program I had to catch 20 plus
years ago.  

I also have the Gammond's book but haven't read it yet.

One I'm currently reading is A Life in Ragtime - A Biography of James Reese
Europe.  So far the details are a bit overwhelming compared to most
biographies I have read over the years.  I searched for this book after
finding at our local library a CD collection of James Reese Europe's music.

I'm always looking for informative reading material on Ragtime.  From what
I've seen listed, I've got a couple good ones, at least.

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> Dear Dan,
>               I'm glad you enjoyed the Waldo
> book. I liked it too. I also liked Peter Gammond's
> "Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era" and I agree
> with Don Kirkman's excellent extended list of
> other sources. I recently saw a website dealing
> with a Ragtime player called Blind Tom during a
> Google search. The Blind Boone story is also
> interesting.
> 
> regards Dan Hardie
> 
> Check out the website at:
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/EarlyJazzHistory.html
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Augustine wrote:
> 
>>      I wrote earlier that i had bought Terry
>> Waldo's book _This Is
>> Ragtime_ (Da Capo, 1976) that Leon Oakley had
>> mentioned as having
>> some quotations by Lu Watters. But it has a lot
>> more than that,
>> obviously.