we seek to explore some of America’s most celebrated ragtime-era works, alongside forgotten and rediscovered favorites, performed as audiences would have heard them over a century ago. Featuring ...

Ragtime developed as a popular musical style at the end of the 19th Century. It has its origins in the saloon bars and dance halls of African-American communities. Ragtime music was written down ...

Ragtime master Reginald R. Robinson plays the 1893 Steinway at the Evanston History Center’s Dawes House. “One of the things ...

That turned out to be a turning point in the history of jazz, Hawkins said. “It was the death of the big band era and led to the popularizing of solo singers and small bands,” he said.