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🦋 Ragtime

Janis lent me a CD of Jelly Roll Morton's music, which I'm loving. Today after listening to it for a while, I played this on my violin, which I think is supposed to be kind of a take on the music I was listening to:

So what do you think? I was really enjoying playing that piece and I think if I had some kind of accompaniment (and -- of course -- spent more time on polishing the performance and the arrangement) it could be really worthwhile music. But I'm not sure how I would find someone that was interested in playing like that. Or for that matter what the instrumentation should be.

Let me know what you think about the sound.

Update: Two songs that I think I could play and that would go really well with this, are "Gimme Pigfoot" by Bessie Smith and "They're Red Hot" by Robert Johnson. (Thinking about it, these two songs are very similar to one another -- but not exactly the same.)

posted evening of Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Like it a lot!

posted morning of May 12th, 2008 by Randolph Fritz

Thanks -- I'm glad to hear it. I keep thinking of ragtime songs I could play on violin, and making some progress with actually playing them, too.

posted morning of May 12th, 2008 by Jeremy

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