Manhattan Serenade Ragtime Clarinet Marmalade [take 2]

Clarinet Marmalade [take 2]

the group includes the following musicians: Jeff Hughes (cornet and trumpet)

the Rivermont team went "on location" to record a full evening's worth of entertainment before a live audience so that listeners around the globe can enjoy Swanson's distinctive mixture of piano rags

Highlights in Volume 8 include a rare "Yerkes Dance Record

Manhattan Serenade Ragtime Clarinet Marmalade [take 2]The first decades of the twentieth century witnessed the flowering of an exciting new style of piano composition that fused European classical music traditions with the popular music styles of the New World. George Gershwin's music is highly representative of this tradition, but with this recording, pianist Frederick Hodges and Rivermont present a major recital of some of the lesser known gems of piano writing that emerged during the flood of