This Is Ragtime Now! is an album by American jazz pianist Hank Jones featuring interpretations ragtime tunes recorded in 1964 for the ABC-Paramount label.[1][2]

This Is Ragtime Now!
Studio album by
Released1964
RecordedApril 13 & 14, 1964
NYC
GenreJazz
Length35:53
LabelABC-Paramount
ABC-496
Hank Jones chronology
Here's Love
(1963)
This Is Ragtime Now!
(1964)
Happenings
(1966)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic     [3]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "this trio, which worked as a rhythm section together on countless music dates of many styles during the 1950s and 1960s, obviously had what it took. But Jones is stuck on a campy honky tonk piano instead of a grand piano on the first half of the LP, so the performances tend to sound a lot like the cornucopia of similar records made by pianists not in the leader's league. But the trio makes its best effort and succeeds in spite of the inferior keyboard".[3]

Track listing

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  1. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) - 3:06
  2. "Cascades" (Joplin) - 2:59
  3. "Sunflower Slow Drag" (Joplin) - 3:07
  4. "St. Louis Rag" (Tom Turpin) - 3:02
  5. "Bohemia" (Joseph Lamb) - 3:10
  6. "Eugenia" (Joplin) - 3:26
  7. "Sensation Rag" (Lamb) - 3:10
  8. "Ragtime Nightingale" (Lamb) - 3:11
  9. "The Cannonball" (Joseph Northrup) - 2:38
  10. "Contentment Rag" (Lamb) - 2:38
  11. "Jazz Mag Rag" (Manny Albam) - 3:03
  12. "Bag O' Rags" (Hank Jones) - 2:23

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ ABC-Paramount Album Discography, Part 4: ABCS-400 to 499 (1961-1964) accessed August 3, 2015
  2. ^ Hank Jones Catalog accessed August 3, 2015
  3. ^ a b Dryden, Ken. This Is Ragtime Now – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2015.