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The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra was formed in 1967 with the encouragement of Pearl Records to perform, as written, rediscovered orchestrations of classic ragtime. Interest resulting from the recording led to engagements at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and Heritage fairs of 1970 and 1971. The orchestra also participated in the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival and were filmed as part of “A New Orleans Tribute to Louis Armstrong,” a movie commemorating Louis Armstrong’s 7th birthday appearance at Newport. The press responded enthusiastically: “The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra is a seven-piece group organized by Lars Edegran, a young Swedish pianist who...

Ragtime is a Russian blues band from Nalchik. If you are listening to the American musical which ran on Broadway from 1998 -2000 change your artist tag to Stephen Flaherty. .

Muggsy Spanier (Francis Joseph Julian Spanier, November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was a prominent cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet and cornet player in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene. Muggsy led several traditional, "hot" jazz bands, most notably Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band (which did not, in fact, play ragtime but, rather, "hot jazz" that would now be called Dixieland). This band set the style for all later attempts to play traditional jazz with a swing rhythm section. Its key members, apart from Muggsy, were: George Brunies - later...

The Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra was formed in the 1970s by Morten Gunnar Larsen, with the intention of playing orchestrated arrangements of classic ragtime pieces, after he had heard The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra whilst studying in N.O. in the early seventies. Never a man to hurry his projects, Morten managed to get the band playing concerts by 1977 - and not long afterwards Ophelia had the pleasure of accompanying the then 94 year old Eubie Blake on a concert in Oslo (unfortunately not recorded). Gradually the band’s repertoire expanded to include other popular music from the beginning of the last...