OCRS March 2025

March 2025: Rarities and Contemporaries

OCRS March 2025
Set list

Bob Pinsker: Mindanao (A Moro Dance) (Biese and Klickmann, 1914), Lonesome Road (Blues) (Will Nash, arr. J. Russel Robinson, 1919), India Rubber (Slow Drag) (Duke Baiers, 1913)
Vincent Johnson (Rube Bloom set): Soliloquy (Rube Bloom, 1926), Spring Fever (Rube Bloom, 1926), Silhouette (Rube Bloom, 1927)
Max Libertor: That American Rag (Vertugno and Kuney, 1912), Tiger Rag (traditional), Coaxing the Piano (Confrey, 1922)
Chris Palmese (Don Lambert style): Malaguena (traditional/Lecuona), Tea for Two (Youmans, 1925), I'm Just Wild About Harry (Blake, 1921)
Barry Blakeley (contemporary ragtime): Jumping Jupiter! (Marchese, 2001), Hen House Rag (Blakeley, 2025), Doghouse Blues (Brier, 2006)
Bob: "Eyes Can't Lie", from "The Aero Maids" (Kortlander, 1909), Chicken Pranks (Kortlander and Roberts, 1917), Roses for Juanita (Willie The Lion Smith, 1941) - world premiere
Vincent: Diamond Dust (Peter DeRose and Domenico Savino, 1937), A Stately Mansion (Rube Bloom, 1933), Flapperette (Greer, 1926)
Max: Unknown Rag (probably J, Milton Delcamp?), Black and White Rag (Botsford, 1908), Seagull Shuffle (Martin Spitznagel, 2009)
Chris: When the Saints Go Marching In (traditional), accompanied by Max on cornet, Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven/Lambert), acc. Max on washboard, Ain't Misbehavin' (Waller, 1929) acc. Max on cornet
Barry (originals): Victorian Rag (Blakely, Sept.-Oct. 2024), The Traffic Jam (Blakeley, 1977 [1st strain], 2022), Rampart Street Stomp (Blakeley, 1998)
Bob: Two unpublished Willie The Lion Smith tunes (1941): (1) Just When I Needed You the Most, You Let Me Down, (2) Get In There, Climax Rag (James Scott, 1914), Mister Deep Blue Sea (J.P. Johnson, 1936) (vocal), Daigah's Dream (Pickett? Wilson? - pub. as by Spencer Williams, 1919)
John Reed Torres: Walhalla (Paul Pratt, 1910), Honeydew Rag (John Reed Torres), Sugar Cane Rag (Joplin, 1908), The Dockstader Rag (Les Copeland, 1912) The Pippin (Arthur Marshall, 1908)

Totals: 6 pianists, 39 selections including 1 medley. 8 contemporary rags.