{"id":10668701391,"title":"Breakin' Notes: Ragtime and Novelty Piano Solos","handle":"2212","description":"\u003cp\u003ePianist Bryan Wright performs and annotates an exciting and unusual program of piano rags, novelties, tangos, and more. From the stately elegance of classic piano rags by Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb, to thrilling showpieces by Jean Paques and Frank Banta, to impressionistic mood pieces by Bix Beiderbecke and Eastwood Lane, to contemporary classics by composers like David Thomas Roberts and Martin Spitznagel, \u003cem\u003eBreakin' Notes\u003c\/em\u003e offers a pleasingly-programmed tour of 20th-century syncopated piano music. The accompanying 24-page full-color booklet offers detailed notes for each of the selections. 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Bryan Wright

Breakin' Notes: Ragtime and Novelty Piano Solos

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Pianist Bryan Wright performs and annotates an exciting and unusual program of piano rags, novelties, tangos, and more. From the stately elegance of classic piano rags by Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb, to thrilling showpieces by Jean Paques and Frank Banta, to impressionistic mood pieces by Bix Beiderbecke and Eastwood Lane, to contemporary classics by composers like David Thomas Roberts and Martin Spitznagel, Breakin' Notes offers a pleasingly-programmed tour of 20th-century syncopated piano music. The accompanying 24-page full-color booklet offers detailed notes for each of the selections. In recent years, Wright has been a featured pianist at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and other jazz and ragtime festivals across the United States, including regular appearances at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival. 65 minutes.

Vinyl editions come with a complimentary MP3 download of the full album.

Rivermont catalogue number: BSW-2212 (Audio CD) / BLV-2212 (Vinyl LP)

Formats available:

Audio CD
Vinyl LP + MP3
Apple Lossless (digital download / no physical product)
MP3 (digital download / no physical product)

If you are purchasing a digital download and you do not know whether your playback device is compatible with Apple Lossless, we recommend the universally-compatible MP3 format. All digital downloads include a PDF digital booklet containing all of the text and images found in the physical CD booklet. If you select Apple Lossless or MP3, you will receive a download link by e-mail upon completion of checkout; no physical product will be mailed to you.

Track list:

Efficiency Rag

Kinklets

Hoosier Rag

Nove de Julho

Key-Stone Rag

The Harbour Rag

Euphonic Sounds

Red Elephant Rag

Soliloquy

10.

Candlelights

11.

Flashes

12.

In the Dark

13.

In a Mist

14.

Breakin' Notes

15.

Cottontail Rag

16.

Roberto Clemente

17.

Upright and Grand

18.

The Legend of Lonesome Lake

Outstanding second album - very different from the first...

“Breakin’ Notes” is a complete split from the musical layout of Mr. Wright’s previous CD. The first half are (mostly) rags from the earlier period of ragtime’s history; four works by Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke form the center of the programme; followed by works written after ragtime’s initial period of popularity.

“Efficiency Rag” has not been recorded that much (except, of course, by William Bolcom), and we can hear how Wright’s playing has matured over the intervening years. It is played neither too fast nor too slow, with great attention to articulation and good shaping with dynamics.

“Kinklets” by Arthur Marshall has not been recorded much (I can only think of Morath’s and Bunk Johnson’s recordings off the top of my head), and Mr. Wright plays it with a similarly detaché style, occasionally adding little changes to the rhythm in the right hand, and adding a Eubie Blake-style “walking bass” at times, which we know is historically accurate from Marshall’s own comments about his and Joplin’s playing. A very distinctive and unique interpretation, easily equal to Morath’s classic version.

Julia Lee Neibergall’s “Hoosier Rag” is much more effective as a piano solo than I thought it would be thanks to Mr. Wright’s interpretation (the only other version of which I know is by Morath’s string group recorded in the 1970s on Vanguard). It’s interesting to hear Neibergall’s occasional deviations for the oom-pah or octave-chord patterns in the bass so common to most rags. Wright will also not hesitate to change the score a bit to add greater interest, for example, in Joplin’s “Euphonic Sounds,” he speeds the third section up a little. It makes the listener sit up and take notice.

Wright also shows his considerable command with two “modern” rags: Martin Spitznagel’s jaunty and novelty-like “Red Elephant Rag,” which darts up and down the keyboard with a lovely “blues-like” third section; and David Thomas Roberts’ haunting and elegiac “Roberto Clemente,” wherein Wright once again shows his exceptional use of dynamic contrast.

The highlights of this album are the four pieces by Bix Beiderbecke. Three of them were never recorded by Bix, so we only have the sheet music to go by, and sheet music is often notoriously inaccurate in such matters. “In a Mist” is the “magnum opus” of the four pieces, and although Wright doesn’t play it exactly like Bix, I agree with his approach, i.e., that it should NOT be played like Debussy, but instead fairly metrically with very judicious use of rubato at the ends of phrases. In doing so, Wright cleverly shows the listener that these works are not just “doodling” at the piano, but well-conceived “frozen” improvisations with distinct sections.

I once played “Upright and Grand,” and have known about Frank Banta’s recording for most of my life, but did not feel I could make it “work.” Wright does a great job here, playing it mostly “straight,” with no vaudevillian glissandi (as Banta once did in an early 1920s recording), then adding his own little coda based on previous material which deviates from the written score.

No fact checkers are necessary with Mr. Wright’s eloquent and beautifully designed booklet; he is a pure scholar through and through, and one can be absolutely certain of near-perfect accuracy in his well-written and thoughtful notes in the beautifully ornamented booklet accompanying this album.

The last word will also be Mr. Wright’s: the final track on “Breakin’ Notes” is The Legend of Lonesome Lake by Eastwood Lane. I had not heard it before, and I suspect a great many others would be in the same boat. It is not my favourite work in these two collections, but it is definitely my favourite performance of all the tracks. Why? Because Wright takes an obscure work, that perhaps isn’t the greatest American syncopated piano piece ever written, but plays it with enormous conviction, in a suitable manner which highlights all the rhythms, structures, and harmonies in those works which preceded and followed it (with even a couple of harmonic progressions which Bix used). We are afterwards left with a genuine sense of accomplishment, not just for the performer, but for the subtle, stylish and detailed way in which both the music and the programme notes are laid out for us. And that, in my opinion, is what REAL musicianship is all about. This album would be a welcome addition to anyone’s CD collection.

Recommended without reservation.

Quite a nice disc!

i bought this for christmas, sounds amazing. piano is a great medium. the blue vinyl only makes it look better!

CAPTURES THE ESSENCE

Bryan Wright's first CD "Syncopated Musings" (BSW-2204) was devoted to the classic rags of Scott Joplin and his contemporaries, but this time around he's broadened that repertoire, and the result is a stunning success. The moment the first notes rang out I was entranced, and I remained captivated throughout. His touch produces a beautiful tone, and the recording is spacious and clear, enabling every nuance to be appreciated. Each of these compositions presents its own challenge, and some are extremely complex. His performance seems effortless, and captures the essence of each piece, not least the four Beiderbecke compositions. Bryan has provided an extensive illustrated liner note on the composers and their works, adding to the listener's appreciation. Highly recommended.