This delightful arrangement serves as an excellent introduction to ragtime in general. The transcription here is of the version that appears on Van Ronk’s 1976 album, Sunday Street. Van Ronk’s rendition of “The Pearls” is apparently based on a version that Morton recorded in 1927 with his ensemble, the Red Hot Peppers. Other guitarists, such as David Laibman and Eric Schoenberg (see a transcription of “Dill Pickle Rag” in the September 2018 issue), would follow suit with their own ragtime arrangements. Louis Tickle,” marked the debut of his foray into ragtime, and learning the piece became a rite of passage for aspiring fingerstyle players. Van Ronk’s 1963 album, In the Tradition, featuring his reading of “St. Dave Van Ronk, who was nicknamed the Mayor of MacDougal Street because of his presence on the Greenwich Village folk scene in 1960s New York, was the first guitar player to record note-for-note arrangements of piano rags. Ragtime might have originated on the piano, but its jagged melodies would prove irresistible to acoustic guitarists. Like other ragtime composers, he sometimes used the word rag in his titles (“Frog-I-More Rag,” “Pacific Rag,” “Perfect Rag/Sporting House Rag,” etc.), but other times did not, as in “The Pearls.” Still, “The Pearls” checks all the boxes for consideration as a ragtime composition: a rhythmically steady bass with a highly syncopated melody, structured in contrasting sections of 16 or 32 bars.
Whatever the merits of that claim, Morton certainly played a significant role in the evolution of ragtime into jazz.
New Orleans-born pianist Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton, was an early ragtime pianist who was present at the birth of jazz and even boasted of having invented it. So we're asking you to give just $1 (or whatever you can afford) right now.įrom the January/February 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY PATRICK GRANT Hey, fellow guitarist! Did you know 99.9% of visitors to this site will scroll past this message without making a contribution? Many plan to pledge later, but then forget.
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