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While the advent of the phonograph and acceptance of Blacks into the record industry ushered in a new era of jazz, it also dealt a deadly blow to one of the most joyous eras of jazz - ragtime. The blues sounds a note of sadness - ragtime jumps with joy. Rudi Blesh in his definitive book on this music, written with Harriet Johnson, "They All Played Ragtime," describes ragtime as "...a music so happy, so tuneful, and so American that in its youth it seemed as if it were our country singing to herself."

Until the gramophone invaded homes and public places, musical entertainment was live. Ragtime swept the nation from coast-to-coast, traveled up and down the rivers, hit honky-tonks, cabarets, dance halls, saloons, vaudeville, theatre and crossed the ocean during World War I to captivate Europe. But, most of all, ragtime was a hit in American homes - on the upright piano, playerpiano, or the baby grand if you were a swell.

Today, Americans are rediscovering ragtime and a rash of ragtime records are being reissued and new ones made, largely inspired by the overwhelming success of "The Sting," a movie featuring Scott Joplin's

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[[image - black and white photograph of a large group of jazz musicians, standing on the steps of a brownstone building and on the sidewalk in front of the building; 12 children sit on curb in front of the group (photo spans two pages]]

[[caption]] 1. HILTON JEFFERSON; 2. BENNY GOLSON; 3. ART FARMER; 4. WILBUR WARE; 5. ART BLAKEY; 6. CHUBBY JACKSON; 7. JOHNNY GRIFFIN; 8. DICKIE WELLS; 9. BUCK CLAYTON; 10. TAFT JORDAN; 11. ZUTTY SINGLETON; 12. RED ALLEN; 13. TYREE GLENN; 14. MIFF MOLE; 15. SONNY GREER; 16. JAY C. HIGGINBOTHAM; 17. JIMMY JONES; 18. CHARLES MINGUS; 19. JO JONES; 20. GENE KRUPA; 21. MAX KAMINSKY; 22. GEORGE WETTLING; 23. BUD FREEMAN; 24. PEE WEE RUSSELL; 25. ERNIE WILKINS; 26. BUSTER BAILEY; 27. OSIE JOHNSON; 28. GIGI GRYCE; 29. HANK JONES; 30. EDDIE LOCKE; 31. HORACE SILVER; 32. LUCKEY ROBERTS; 33. MAXINE SULLIVAN; 34. JIMMY RUSHING; 35. JOE THOMAS; 36. SCOVILLE BROWNE; 37. STUFF SMITH; 38. BILL CRUMP; 39. COLEMAN HAWKINS; 40. RUDY POWELL; 41. OSCAR PETTIFORD; 42. SAHIB SHIHAB; 43. MARIAN McPARTLAND; 44. SONNY ROLLINS; 45. LAWRENCE BROWN; 46. MARY LOU WILLIAMS; 47. EMMETT BERRY; 48. THELONIOUS MONK; 49. VIC DICKENSON; 50. MILT HENTON; 51. LESTER YOUNG; 52. REX STEWART; 53. J. C. HEARD; 54. GERRY MULLIGAN; 55. ROY ELDRIDGE; 56. DIZZY GILLESPIE; 57. COUNT BASIE [[/caption]]

THE AMERICAN BLACK AND JAZZ

ART KANE/"THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ," 1959/ESQUIRE, INC. 
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