Artist	Song
Johnny Maddox	Royal Garden Blues
from Dixieland Blues (2005)
Ev Farey's Bay City Jazz Band	Smokey Mokes
from Live! At the Sail 'N (2006)
Bunk Johnson And His New Orleans Band	Tiger Rag
from A Portrait of George Lewis from Burgundy Street to Berlin (2007)
Mutt Carey And His New Yorkers	Cake Walkin' Babies
from Portrait of a New Orleans Master (2007)
Eteri Andjaparidze	Jay Walk
from Confrey: Piano Music (1999)
Willie Smith (The Lion) & His Cubs	Harlem Joys
from All Star Jazz Quartets 1928-1940 - Disc D (2006)
Mutt Carey And His New Yorkers	Fidgety Feet
from Portrait of a New Orleans Master (2007)
Tom Baker's Chicago Seven	Panama
from Tom Baker's Chicago Seven - Live In Concert (1999)
Pee Wee Hunt	Twelfth Street Rag
from Pee Wee Hunt (2010)
Katharine Handy Lewis	Memphis Blues
from W. C. Handy Blues (As Sung By His Daughter Katharine Handy Lewis In Traditional Style) (1958)
Sidney Bechet	At a Georgia Camp Meeting
from The Commodore Story (1997)
Eubie Blake	Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
from Eubie Blake: That's Ragtime! (2000)
Jelly Roll Morton	(Darktown) Strutters' Ball
from The Library of Congress Recordings: Jelly Roll Morton - Kansas City Stomp, Vol. 1 (1993)
James P. Johnson	Twilight Rag
from The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945: Piano Solos (1996)
Fats Waller	Ain't Misbehavin'
from Vintage Jazz No. 160 - LP: Fats Waller (2011)
Doc Watson	Victory Rag
from Home Again! (1996)
Guido Nielsen	Excelsior
from Joseph F. Lamb: The Complete Stark Rags (1998)
Johnny Maddox	Ragtime Cowboy Joe
from Cowboys and Indians (2002)
Turk Murphy	Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight
from Turk Murphy's Jazz Band Favorites, Vol. 2 (2007)
Bessie Smith	Alexander's Ragtime Band
from Alexander's Ragtime Band (1990)
Chris Barber	Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
from The Pye Jazz Anthology: Chris Barber and His Jazz Band (2009)
Joan Morris & William Bolcom	Moonlight Bay
from Moonlight Bay (1999)
Bourbon Street Stompers	I Don't Care / Hello My Baby
from We Like Dixieland (1963)
Molly Watson	Under the Bamboo Tree
from Bird in a Gilded Cage (1999)
James P. Johnson	Carolina Shout
from Snowy Morning Blues (1991)

Comment:

Ragtime's heyday ended in the early 1920s when Dixieland jazz became the order of the day, but that primeval ragtime swing was permanently stuck in America's ear, with revivals cropping up every few decades. Dick Hyman is best known for scoring Woody Allen movies, but "A Barrel of Keysy" makes it clear that he's a man in a ragtime state of mind. Country-folk guitar god Doc Watson's 1966 take on James Scott's "Victory Rag" shows that piano-pounders don't have a monopoly on ragtime. Even jazz-age popular standards like Fats Waller's sly-boots pledge of devotion "Ain't Misbehavin'" have ragtime in their blood, with those rippling rag piano rhythms ringing out as unmistakable as fingerprints.

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