Scott Joplin – Sam Spear Music

3 Compelling Stories from They All Played Ragtime

The seldom-discussed stories of three ragtime pioneers

Charles Ives, Scott Joplin & Scott Hayden, Eubie Blake

The American railroad system as a driving force for cultural exchange

A new EP and Book coming your way next week!

Jelly Roll Morton demonstrates the stylistic differences between Ragtime and Jazz, an evolution of which he was a major proponent

An exploration of how rhythmic conventions in music and dance may influence each other

A collection of some of Scott Joplin’s finest Ragtime Waltzes

Breaking down the defining features of the closely related piano styles of Ragtime and Stride

Learn about the figures who defined the Ragtime Revival of the 1970 – Eubie Blake, Joshua Rifkin, Gunther Schuller, and more.

Some of Scott Joplin’s most innovative and famous works that aren’t “The Entertainer”