Scott Joplin's life should be a reminder of how true talent is shitted on in this backwards world. He was a pioneer for Jazz, modern rock, and R&B. It's safe to say that if it wasn't for Scott Joplin, we wouldn't have the amount of wonderful music that we have today. Yet, when he was alive he was treated as a second rate citizen, his music was criticized as being "mediocre" and he never received the revenue for his works like he should. He wrote music that European's loved yet he never got a chance to perform it himself, it only after he died that his music was played by people and he was never recognized as a true composer. Funny how people love his music but didn't love him as a person. He died penniless in a mental hospital and was buried in an unmarked grave. We see a similar trend among geniuses in art and music, treated like garbage, disposed of just to have their creations treasured only after the dumb population realizes what they were given. Modern "music" is just a made up construct to sell albums and make money and the "puppet artists" are used for gain of the industry. True blue musicians are the ones performing in the streets and writing their own numbers. Unfortunately, the mediocre are praised in this world while the mavericks are placed on a shelf until the gems of their creativity is capitalized on. Next time you listen to your favorite artist, don't forget the ones that paved the way. Remember, people like Scott Joplin and take the time to learn about them and appreciate the gifts many like him, have given the world.

Imagine living in 1910 and ballin to this absolute fire🥵🥵🥵

This still hits hard after 120 years

Only 1890's kids remember this

Scott Joplin wasn’t just a composer but a genius and Revolutionize a style of music that’s so unique and so entertaining to listen to he brought swag to his music he’s the greatest composer there ever was for that era

How could anyone hate this music

My grandmother (born in 1891) played ragtime on her piano at home. I still love it. 😀😀😀😀😀

Sometimes musicians manage to create something eternal. A simple cheerful melody and has been heard for more than a hundred years.

This should be on a radio we need a rag time station

There will never be another Scott Joplin. He was the king of ragtime. Quality music, whether classical or lighter such as this, will last forever, which is more than one can say for much of which is being dished up to us nowadays.

BRAVO BRAVO JOLLY GOOD SHOW 👏👏👏👏

When I was a kid, the mini shopping mall near home (maybe 8 stores, plus the anchor) used to have, as part of their anniversary celebration, a pianist playing ragtime. This old guy was 300 years old if he was a day. Having seen the movie "The Sting", I kinda liked the style, but didn't understand it. While Mom was shopping, I stayed with this guy watching him perform (before anyone freaks, it was the 70's in a very small shopping center in a close knit community.) During his break, we got to talking. He was telling me about ragtime and the 20's, and Scott. They had a Ragtime banjo the next year. I have loved the music since, and watch "The Sting" more for the tunes than the story.

Scott Joplin = The King of Ragtime Music

Who else is listening on April 14th 1912???

Not him playing but the writing is unsurpassed. It is in fact, perfect. He had exactly the right combinations.

I'm so glad the great movie "The Sting" revived an interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime. :D

I can never listen to this wondrous music without feeling a pang of sadness for the terrible life the poor man led and his sad ending.

NOW THIS IS A BANGER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

This music is what makes all the ol' cartoons like Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc into timeless pieces of joy. I remember the songs more than the cartoons themselves, tbh.

[00:00] The Entertainer [03:47] Maple Leaf Rag [06:37] Elite Syncopations [09:33] The Ragtime Dance [12:20] The Easy Winners [15:07] Weeping Willow [18:22] The Cascades [21:10] A Breeze From Alabama [24:34] The Favorite [27:29] Gladiolus Rag [30:39] Cleopha

scary how I heard every one of this tunes but I didn't know the names of the songs, that this genre was called ragtime and who scott joplin was. glad to make the discovery

jazz wouldn't exist without ragtime

I..was crying until I started playing this. Ragtime is my happy music. God bless.

Scott Joplin was a genius!

Masterpiece. Thank you dear Bro Scott ❤🎶💣💪🏾💪🏾

For those using mobile: 00:00 The Entertainer 03:47 Maple Leaf Rag 06:37 Elite Syncopations 09:33 The Ragtime Dance 12:20 The Easy Winners 15:07 Weeping Willow 18:22 The Cascades 21:10 A Breeze From Alabama 24:34 The Favorite 27:29 Gladiolus Rag 30:39 Cleopha

I had the good fortune to grow up in a home that was full of classical music and Scott Joplin. This brings back memories from when I was a child and a teenager..............and that was a long time ago! Wonderful.

When she sends you a picture of her ankle through the telegram...

What I love about Scott Joplin´s music is that it´s between centuries, you can still hear the 19th century so clearly even though the 20th century is clearly dawning.

I love Scutt Joplin’s ragtime music. My uncle used to play those wonderful Scott Joplin songs for the family when I was a little kid and they have been in my heart ever since.

*gunshots in background*

This the absolute best music in the land, bar none. This is masterful. What talent!!

Rags never fail to put a smile on my face, get my head nodding with the beat. I was introduced to ragtime by the Robert Redford Movie, "The Sting," in which "The Entertainer" was featured, and I've been hooked ever since. Still love 'em. Thanks for these!

Delightful. I have had this CD longer than most of the viewers are old! Don’t ya just love it? Have fun! Love, Grandma

My choir teacher recommended this to me. Its wonderful because I can't get distracted by drums or harsh loud instruments when I'm trying to do my homework.

It only takes a piano to play Scott Joplin, but it sounds like a 100 piece orchestra. Must be something in the spirit of his music. Looking forward to hearing him playing in heaven.

only 1890 remember

What a unique genius. Such vital yet gentle music

It’s a miraculous mystery, how music can flow out of a person’s head. The skilled ones can encode it onto paper. The theme used in the movie “The Sting” introduced me to his music. The Maple Leaf Rag is also very recognizable. Others tend to blur together for me. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying.

Such a beautiful composition, can listen to it a million times and never get bored of it.

I brought a Scott Joplin's music book called Ragtime when I was younger and the first sheet music song was the Entertainer. This seems to be the music in the book that I still have altho I separated the entire book into separete potective sleeves to keep. I would played some of the songs on my soprano recorded or on my organ. I simply 💘 ragtime music and Scott Joplin. Where has all of the fun and happy music gone? I still play occasionally and will always listen to these gorgeous ragtime songs. What great childhood memories! 03/2020💝💿😊 This is the ragtime music to the music book that I have. I went back and looked at the book. Yippy!!!😁😍😅😊😜😄

One of the greatest black Americans ever.

Ragtime music is FANTASTIC! It feels like that I'm standing at somewhere in early 1900!

Scott Joplin was truly a great American composer, the n.1 master of Rag Time which is a very fun musical genre both to listen and to play. 🙂

This is beautiful music. I only just discovered Scott Joplin in the last year and fell in love! Thank you for sharing.

Imagine being a pianist in the early 1900's ahhhhh only a dream !

Scott Joplin is best composer from the 1900s. I just love old music ...

Rule #1 of every bar fight: Never, under any circumstances, shoot the pianist.

My mother loved exercising to this music. She was in her 70s. Well, so am i, and I'm at the gym exercising!

Scott Joplin was a very great American master. He took African-American folk idiom and applied it to a very severe and strict Viennese classicism, and produced genius. He's been teaching the world how to dance ever since. This pianist plays his music beautifully, but perhaps a little too fast. Joplin said that ragtime should be played slowly.

Discovered this in my 20's and LOVE it! Wish more was made!!

Bring me back to my college days when I took a class called "Jazz Appreciation" and ragtime like the Entertainer and the Maple Leaf Rag were a couple of the first songs we listened to. To this day I love this style of music, thanks to that one class I took.

When the saloon fight is getting heated and in the background you hear these bangers

Like who actually hates this music? i think its EPICCCCCCCCCCCCC

Who else is listening in 1909

Just genius... I haven't words more..

This music is more pleasing to the ears than most songs today, think that says alot 😂

Scott Joplin was a hero, at least to me he is. He overcame poverty and racism to become the number one artist in a totally new genre of music. He died from syphilis, broke and delirious.

The Entertainer quickens up . The Elite Sycopations is extremely fast.etc The reason is that in the start of discovering recording ,in the late 1800s / early 1900s it was impossible to fit tunes in unless they were played at a fast tempo. At the start , only a limited amount of slow recordings were possible. Otherwise tunes had to be speeded up.

Okay, who is still in the mood for a saloon fight?

Jolly good performance!!! Just absolutely splendid!! 🎩🎩🎩🎩

i'm listening to this for my homework :)) Everybody have a great day!

I LOVE these ragtime piano pieces - so lively, melodious and playful! I could listen to these for hours!!!

An amazing compilation of multiple great ragtime songs made by Scott Joplin, thank you.

These rags are still classic, after so many years

best enjoyed wearing black and white clothes and moving very quickly while listening

I like it...! It remember me the 1974 movie "The Sting", with Rober Redfor y Paul Newman...

New year resolution for 2023 is learn this whole album.

these people keep fighting every time this guy's music plays! can't i just enjoy my beer in peace?

0:00 "MAMA! GIVE ME A DOLLAR! THE ICE CREAM TRUCK IS COMING! HURRY UP!"

Jak słucha się ragtime'u Scotta Joplina od razu świat wydaje się lepszy i weselszy dziękuję bardzo

I adore these pieces! I also could listen to this for the rest of my life.

I've never had such a deep love and admiration for any kind of music as I do when I listen to ragtime. I'm so fucking insanely happy Scott Joplin existed when he did so I could exist to hear his work

just discovered this genre and already know I will never go back.

It’s morning in California & I just got up. Checked my phone as usual. What a sweet way to start my day! 😊 you go, Scott.

He accomplished so much in his life even if he had been poor. It is really painful to read the story of his life and lines like ...' (He) was buried in a pauper's grave that remained unmarked for 57 years. His grave at St. Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst was finally given a marker in 1974, the year The Sting, which showcased his music, won for Best Picture at the Oscars.' Wikipedia

All of these melodies could be used for the background music of silent films.

When I was a boy my friends exclaimed "Don't you just love Joplin?" and I replied "I sure do! isn't he great?" and they said "He?" Clearly we weren't talking about the same Joplin. I never learned to play but my great grandfather had a solution to that, he just fired up the old pianola and fed it a roll and off it played while we sat there watching the keys move themselves as the ghost of Joplin played roughly 50 years after he completed his mortal coil.

Scott Joplin was brilliant

Wonderful Ragtime Music.⭐⭐💥💥

the ancestor of the jazz music

Beautiful! I love ragtime Music because it is crazy but composed and it is lots of fun to dance to!

The real American folk song is a rag - a rocking trolley full of rhythm and blues. ~Gershwin

Beautiful music, beautifully played. Thank God for Scott Joplin! Thanks for posting!

The Entertainer... Such a classic!!!, Glad to finally found it!!

Thank you so much for posting this. I was looking for the first 2 songs forever, because I didn't know the names. It was a pleasure to listen to them. I also found another track, that is familiar and that I like, in the last track. Once again, thank you!

Growing up in London 1900s, my Nanna' was born 1906) into a privilege family she played this when she was there. We called it the dirty 30s, her era and they had fun all those Irish / Jews so gifted ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎹 growing up she had me started on one of those organs haaaaa and my sister bought a Cherry wood Piano it was beautiful 😍❤️ Music is the answer in healing ones Soul. 🎉💋 I like it All most music, Opera, Classical, 30- 40-50-60-70-80-90-

A dynamic piece of American culture I did not realize came from African American musical and dance traditions! Very cool! Love to see it!

I have loved this tune for ever one of my favorites

PLAYING THIS AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS IS RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING

LOVE Scott Joplin! Great music.

Dont listen to the haters. Music is interpretaive and rag specifically should be embelished by whoever is performing it not to be direct copies of the original work. Love this sound

only early 1900s kids remember

I think this is perfect music to cheer you up

I played the Maple Leaf Rag on marimba on my graduate percussion recital in 1974, along with Milhaud and Stravinsky!

Thanks Scott...

The first one nobody forgets...

perfect music to play while I watch silent black and white animated short films.

Only real 1880's kids will remember

Эта музыка исполнялась, сопровождая немые фильмы начала прошлого века. Люди двигались в этих преимущественно весёлых фильмах ускоренным темпом. От этого фильм казался еще смешнее... Благодарю, очень понравилось!