Ragtime Party - Black & White Rag

A few days ago, someone asked me if Tom Brier can play George Botsford's famous "Black and White Rag". This weekend at a ragtime music party jam session when people wondered what to play next, I mentioned that question.

At first we're waiting for YouTube's "verybigrifle" to change the memory card in his camera. You can see his video of this same performance here:
   • Black & White Rag  

My camera takes a long time to start up so I just let it run rather than risk missing the beginning while I stopped and deleted anything. And editing the video would lose considerable audio quality... so this is cinema vérité!

On the grand piano is Tom Brier. On the upright behind him are Jack & Chris Bradshaw. On the piano in the next room is Monty Suffern (though you can't really hear him from these angles). On flute is Julia Riley. On tuba is Robyn Drivon. On drums is Steve Drivon. On oboe is Pepper Rae. On violin is her granddaughter Soleil. On clarinet is Larisa Migachyov (who hadn't touched a clarinet in more than five years, she said).

Black & White Rag is in the public domain now. You can download the sheet music from many places, including http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cat... or http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/images/bla... or http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cd... (that last one looks to be quite a clear copy).