The best of James Scott- 1 HOUR EDITION (1885-1938) [HQ]
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- The best of James Scott, combined into one piece!
James Sylvester Scott (February 12, 1885 - August 30, 1938) was an African-American ragtime composer, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He made a lot of influential music and that’s why we feature him several times on this channel along with Scot Joplin and Joseph Lamb.
James Sylvester Scott was born in Missouri, USA. At the age of 21 he searched for his idol Scot Joplin in St. Louis, Missouri to ask if he would listen to one of his rag time pieces. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as "Frog Legs Rag". It quickly became a hit and was second in sales in the Stark catalogue only to that of Joplin's own "Maple Leaf Rag". Scott became a regular contributor to the Stark catalogue until 1922. Scott's best-known compositions include "Climax Rag", "Frog Legs Rag", "Grace and Beauty", "Ophelia Rag" and "The Ragtime Oriole".
This composition of James Scott contains the best music he composed.
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One of the " Big Three" composers of classic ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott...amazing music....from Fort Worth, Texas
You do realize that you've included Scott twice?
@@rleroygordonhe meant to say Scott Joplin, Joe Lamb and James Scott.
These days if you went into a shop and asked for a copy of Climax Rag you'd get something very different.
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@@kafenwarwhat is this supposed to mean
@@Whodmyname Take a guess...it's either a magazine or a rag for climaxing
@@WhodmynameI honestly don't know, maybe he's implying that these days the word climax refers to something different, or maybe James scott intentionally named I like that? Idk what climax meant back then, or maybe he's just saying that climax rag is rare these days
It was a Dixieland tune for a generation or two after, it changed a lot.
Tuned in because I am at the Neosho Big Spring Park where James S Scott is claimed on a sign as one of its own. Good music to enjoy while walking around the park.
I was very happy hearing rag on a classical music station. It is a form of classical music and American made.
YESS I HEARD SOLACE, ORIGINAL RAGS, AND GLADIOLUS RAG ON THE RADIO
Jeffrey, without a doubt! Peace - Gus
amazing Music.
I've always had a particular fondness for Ragtime Oriole.
Thanks, Don´t Jazz Me Rag is my favorite Scott's tune.
Listening again on a dreary Monday morning in February . . . wonderful way to improve matters (not to mention celebrating Black History Month). Thanks once again for posting these American classics.
Great Video, thanks!
0:00 Broadway Rag
3:12 Climax Rag
5:55 Don´t Jazz Me Rag
9:17 Efficiency Rag
12:18 Evergreen Rag
15:08 Frog Legs Rag
17:47 Grace and Beauty
21:03 Great Scott Rag
23:42 Hilarity Rag
26:14 Honey Moon Rag
29:16 Kansas City Rag
32:06 New Era Rag
34:52 Ophelia Rag
37:21 Paramount Rag
40:05 Peace and Plenty Rag
43:08 Pegasus - A Classic Rag
45:56 Prosperity Rag
49:26 Quality - A High Class Rag
52:17 Rag Sentimental
55:29 Ragtime Oriole
58:56 Sunburst Rag
1:01:54 The Suffragette Waltz
1:06:22 Victory Rag
Thanks for posting this; it's a great help.
Thank you for the list.
Say, Alphabetical Order!
I love James Scott. Wish he got more recognition.
Have you met Scott Joplin yet? While James Scott is a ragtime king sharing the title with Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and himself, Joplin is recognized as the all-time king of ragtime. You should check him out if you are not familiar with the ol' chap!
@@SalvatoreMilitello Of course I'm familiar with Joplin. However, since I wrote this comment I have taken a much greater liking to Lamb, to the point where I will argue for days that in his later years he actually surpassed Joplin and even showed signs of it in the '10s (such as in Top Liner and Nightingale).
@@angus7977 All is well. I see your point.
I don't exaggerate when I tell you that I appreciate this profoundly. Many thanks for sharing it, both how affected you are by him and your wish that he were more appreciated. I tell music lovers regularly that he is one of the most underappreciated figures in American music.
---David Thomas Roberts
@@PolkRidgeAesthete for sure. Scott, Joplin and especially Lamb have made me feel a range of emotions with their music, and even inspired me to learn theory and get into music as a serious hobby. Nothing but respect for these 3 and what they contributed to music as a whole.
My top favourite James scott rags
First place - Quality rag definitely
Second place - Efficiency rag
Third place - Frog legs rag
Casual Quality Rag enjoyer. 😎🤝😎
Honestly one of my favorites, always a delight to listen to.
@@TaterTod I get the feeling that James Scott purposely tried hard to make that rag sound much better than the others and make people over tingle but he certainly succeeded!
One of the three kings!
Joplin, Lamb and Scott - right?
@@elizabethhenderson3747 Yes
That Efficiency Rag is really something. So uplifting.
Sure is. Always jolts me back up in a happi mood. 😌✨
Its just kismet rag reverse engineered
It’s definitely my second favourite my favourite is quality rag
Arranged all these in Octa-MED on the Amiga in 1989. Now if only I could find the diskettes.
Grace and Beauty, Paramount Rag, Climax Rag, and Frog Legs Rag were the only rags I new James Scott published. Then I came across this video. I would have cried with my new discovery (mind the tautology) had the music not been so damn happy!
Please feel free to cry, because his work is so much more than "happy." It's some of the most richly lyrical, ideally sentiment-laden piano music to ever some out of the United States, nothing less.
Thanks not just for the upload, but for the fascinating piece of information int he description. I think having Scott Joplin actually approve of an original rag is the closeted dream of most people who work in rag time 😅
Playing this sitting with a brew beside me, great stuff
Excellent...bravo
특히 Don't jazz me 를 비롯해서 래그타임 곡들 중에 제임스스콧의 곡을 좋아합니다 감사합니다
참고 : 나는 구글 번역을 통해 당신에게 이야기하고, 그래서 끔찍한 번역을 용서. 영어를 사용해요. 어쨌든, 나는 노래 DON'T JAZZ ME는 재즈가 래그 타임 음악을 죽인 방법 때문에 그것이 방법 제목이라고 생각합니다.
I love the most is DON'T JAZZ ME RAG
This music was soooooo much better than now 🥰
Awesome beautiful and joyful music. Gotta love Scott Jolplin. Thanks. Greetings from Russia.
You bet! 😃
@@user-rv6sj5ly5p Also, greetings from U.S. my friend. How is the weather there? Been freezing 20° and below down here.
@@TaterTod hey there! Hello. Raining here it. Wishing all the Best everybody.
@@user-rv6sj5ly5p Oh, that's cool. I love rain. Very fun weather. Wish all the best for you too. 💚
Gotta love James Scott; my feet were keeping time the whole way through! A master of the form - a true ragtime artist! Thanks for posting this.
I always find myself coming back to this video. Of the big 3, James Scott is easily my favorite. Some people like to knock him for not having the complexity of Joplin and Lamb in his compositions, but the personalized flair his rags have are real ear candy. The Scott rags are the ones you always want to tap your foot to. Overall definitely one of the most underappreciated composers.
@@angus7977 Yup. There's a subtle difference with Joplin, whose work I've known longest (40+ years), but as someone with no musical training, I can't identify what that is. Love these guys!
Thank you for posting this. I love discovering composers I'm not familiar with.
And this is one of the very greatest of all the underappreciated.
---D.T.R.
It’s crazy how much this reminds me of Joplin
As you become more familiar with the language of classic ragtime, you'll increasingly appreciate how unique and precious is the music of James Scott.
@@PolkRidgeAesthete Agreed! Peace - Gus
hi there, i'm producing a documentary about Protugal in the 1900's and i would like to use a litle part of this. Is it ok to use it? thank you for keeping the memory alive!!!!
Just so you know, these rags haven't been copyrighted in 50 years since their publication 100 years ago... Besides, ragtime is for all to use and enjoy!
Hi Piano Classics, this is one hell of a site, excellent and eclectic! Just subbed and will be back on a regular basis, - thanks for the work you have put in, - Peace, Gus ;)
How about Troubadour, Modesty, and Betty? Those are some of his best.
For a moment I thought this was by Scott Joplin. Was surprised that this composer seemed to catch the spirit of Ragtime with one piece. Is there any more information on his life?
It's good....😊😊....
James Scott snd Joseph Lamb have a very comparable writing style with the left hand especially. It’s like they were cut from the same cloth...or Lamb copied the style. Either way, I love them both.
The other James Scott 2 hour video was removed. Idk why. :(
Ah, I believe it is because Valentine (The dude who ran the channel quit doing CZcams and ended his channel. :[
I haven't heard from him in awhile and his channel is completely gone.
I’d have trouble being persuaded that James Scott was any less of a genius than Scott Joplin.
True. He just didn't have an effective publicist (Stark) like Joplin did.
This is great, is it in public domain ?
Yes
Piano Classics How About The Fascinator Do You Know That?
Not many people know much about Scott's early march songs just because he was not as famous as he in the "Hayday" of Ragtime
The Fascinator is one of my favourite it really makes me tingle especially the C and D section
Warping aside, this sounds better at .75 speed. IMO, these pieces are played a little too fast.
I wish you'd give their names
The three dislikes are Scott Joplin purists...
Or jazz purists, James Scott hated jazz, hence why his publisher named one of his songs Don’t Jazz me, I’m music
@@anthonytarczynski5423 Yes, and among others people who dislike Joplin's belief that ragtime is a form of classical music (I mean, quite honestly, most ragtime is just rampant, "salloon" music. But when composers such as Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb, plus some of Max Keenlyside's works are listened to, ragtime gets a fighting chance).
@@anthonytarczynski5423 I never actually knew James Scott hated jazz. Very interesting.
@@diediachfortdeutch7842 Funny because he had a jazz band in the 1920s.
@@diediachfortdeutch7842 James Scott didn't titled his pieces. His publisher did so and it was him who disliked Jazz and named one of his compositions "Don't Jazz Me".
But James Scott was probably also not too happy about Ragtime getting swiped away by Jazz.
"His love of the genre was clearly demonstrated in one of his last published rags, Don't Jazz Me, (I'm Music), although that rag, like most of his pieces submitted without titles, was likely named by John Stark or a member of his firm. Stark in particular was frustrated with the onslaught of loose (by the standards of that time period) jazz music, and the title of this ironically somewhat jazzy piece was one of his final editorials on the passing of classic ragtime."
Let me guess: Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb are the other two. Seemed more likely than Mozart or Haydn. I'll take James Scott's "Ragtime Oriole" over anything written 100 years since....Robert K. Barclay
scott joplin is more like beethoven and my boy james scott is mozart
It's an extraordinary, precious piece of piano music, indeed. How much contemporary ragtime have you heard?
James scott... idk how to feel about this man. It would hurt me to say he sounds better then Scott Joplin, so im gonna keep my mouth shut.
It is better! Go to any ragtime festival, they are rarely played because his compositions are difficult
@@johnendries514 James Scott was a great ragtime player, love his compositions a lot, but there is already a king of ragtime, im sorry
@@mrgrinch8540 That was simply a name of a book by Edward Berlin, since Joplin was a well-known performer (though reportedly not that great) as well as a prolific composer, and his rags are approachable by intermediate-level players. Fortunately for him NY Library put out his collection and The Sting featured his music, albeit anachronistic to the time period of the Great Depression. Most of James Scott rags are difficult and cover a wider range of the piano (full orchestra), at least at the top (Later, stride piano - still ragtime - focused on bass). James Scott composed, rarely performed and for most of his life was a church mouse, janitor by day and then playing/composing at the church piano at night. Stark Publishing never passed on a submission by James Scott. His collection was eventually published by The Smithsonian. You don't hear them often because even professional players have literally disclosed to me that they are difficult to rehearse, memorize and play. For completely separate reasons, I think the title KING OF RAGTIME is aptly shared by both.
@@johnendries514 you just blew my mind. Thanks for the history of James Scott, iv'e always given 100% credit to Joplin for his ragtime contributions. its nice to think outside what I know and put other details about James Scott into consideration. Joplin pieces weren't too hard to sight read to say the least. They are both great composers.
James Scott Wrote some great pieces however.overall Scotts music its not as well developed as Joplins Scott often writes a strain and repeats it an octave higher a not very sophisticated composing technique Joplin never had any amateur sounding music like Scott however Scotts best rags are outstanding
James Scott's repetitions and riffs actually had a huge impact on the creation of the jazz vocabulary of Kansas City musicians. Yet I have the feeling that a lot of these repititious-sounding rags of his (especially towards the latter 1910s) were rather cynically churned out, and structurally they are almost identical to each other.
@@kafenwar James Scott wrote a lot of great Rags but Joplin is still considered by Scholars of the. To be the greatest of all Ragtime composers