"GRACE AND BEAUTY RAG" Fred Van Eps Pathé Actuelle 021088 EE- 1923 RAGTIME
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Here's a landmark of Classic Ragtime: It's banjo virtuoso FRED VAN EPS in 1923, playing two major, and widely admired, compositions of JAMES SCOTT: "RAGTIME ORIOLE" (1911) and "GRACE AND BEAUTY RAG" (1909).
Van Eps gives impeccable performances of both pieces, giving out with reverent, but breezy and nonchalant readings of the Scott scores. Ace piano accompanist FRANK BANTA is fully up to snuff.
This original 1923 Pathé Actuelle 021088 is in clean E- condition.
PHOTOS: 1) Fred Van Eps recording acoustically; 2) James Scott (1885 - 1938), great composer of ragtime, considered second only to Scott Joplin.
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