MP3 Adam Swanson - Chestnut Street in the '90s
Rare rags, novelties, popular songs, and more performed by fifteen year old Adam Swanson. Twenty four tunes.
24 MP3 Songs in this album (73:40) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Ragtime, JAZZ: Stride
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Thrill to the sounds of real ragtime piano as it was heard from the 1890s through the 1920s. Fifteen year old Adam Swanson presents a collection of rare rags, novelties, popular songs, and more! Adam''s second recording effort is entitled "Chestnut Street in the ''90s" - the street in St. Louis where many early ragtime pianists plied their trade. Includes a full twenty-four pieces.
Adam Swanson, from the small town of Shenandoah, Iowa, is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of American ragtime. He discovered ragtime on his grandparents’ “Web-TV” and has played the piano about seven years. Although he is only seventeen years old, he has been a featured performer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States. In 2007 he appeared alongside John Arpin at the Bohem Ragtime and Jazz Festival in the Republic of Hungary. In May 2008 he became the youngest ever to win the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest held in Peoria, Illinois. Most recently, Adam recorded a duet album with the great Johnny Maddox.