Ragtime Kidd Repertoire February 13, 2007

I love many styles of music and I believe it is healthy
to accept the merits of each. Playing at the Holiday Inn for years and various tour boats have secured me with a broad repertoire covering styles like Pop, Rock and Roll, Jazz Standards, Ragtime and Boogie-Woogie.

What is Boogie-Woogie? I maintain it was the precursor to the Rock and Roll that was popularized in the 1950s by Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino and the like.

Here’s what Wiki says:

Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-based blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and was extended from piano, to three pianos at once, guitar, big band, and country and western music, and even gospel. Whilst the blues traditionally depicts sadness and sorrow, boogie-woogie is associated with dancing.

Source: Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie-woogie_%28music%29

Here are some of the rags and boogie I like to play:

• Maple Leaf Rag
• HarlemRag
• The Entertainer
• The Weeping Willow
• Ragtime Nightingale
• Swipesy Cakewalk
• Ragtime Jalopy
• The Bowery Buck
• Vitality Rag
• Possum and Taters
• Red Onion Rag
• Pleasant Moments
• Ragtime Nightmare
• Happy Cat Rag
• Spann’s Boogie
• Let’em Jump
• Monday Struggle
• Boogie Woogie on the St. Louis Blues
• Farewell to Riverside
• Kidd’s Boogie