Cake-Walk In The Sky
The LATEST Paragon album!
Featuring several world premiere recordings!
Nearly 80 minutes of delightful music
Deluxe album with 12 page color booklet
Available ONLY in physical album format here – no streams, downloads, or amazon
Cake-Walk In The Sky
(Rialto Records 6007):
Performed by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rick Benjamin conductor;
featuring Rebecca Ciabattari, trombone; Arthur Moeller, violin; and
John Leister, drums and sound effects
Including:
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- “Stop It! (“Some Jazz,” 1919), George L. Cobb.
- “Pasquinade” (caprice, c.1863), Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
- “Slidus Trombonus: A Trombone Comedy” (1915), M.L. Lake.
- “The Richmond Rag” (1909), May Aufderheide.
- “The Enchanted Dale” (waltz, 1912), George L. Cobb.
- “The Blue Law Blues: Dry Humor… esque” (1921), M.L. Lake.
- “Black and White Rag” (two-step, 1909), George Botsford.
- “Almah: Egyptian Sketch” (1914), Carlton L. Colby.
- “The Gladiolus Rag” (1907), Scott Joplin.
- “A Bunch of Blues” (fox-trot, 1915), H. Alf Kelley & J. Paul Wyer.
- “Ballade Moderne” (1922), Robert Russell Bennett
– WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING. - “Rag-Time Dance: A Stop-Time Two Step” (1906), Scott Joplin.
- “How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm”
(one-step, 1918), Walter Donaldson. - “The Cake-Walk In the Sky: Ethiopian Two-Step” (1899), Ben Harney.
- “Jamaica Jinjer: A Hot Rag” (1912), Egbert Van Alstyne.
- “Any Kind of Man” (dance from Sometime, 1918), Rudolf Friml.
- “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise”
(Special Fox Trot Arrangement, 1922), Ernest Seitz. - “Step On It” (one-step, 1927), Mel B. Kaufman.
- “Turkish Trophies: An Oriental Rag” (1907), Sarah B. Egan.
- “The Thunder Cloud” (march, 1911), Harry L. Alford.
- “Till We Meet Again” (waltz, 1918), Richard A. Whiting.
- “Gems of Stephen Foster: American Fantasia” (1894), Theodore Moses-Tobani.
From Rick Benjamin, album curator and conductor:
“‘Cake-Walk In The Sky’ is the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra’s twentieth album and another selection of favorites from among the many pieces that we have performed in concert over the last twenty years. The music here covers a wider time period than any of our previous albums – from the early 1860s to the late 1920s. This extraordinary sixty year span gave rise to the largest number of new musical styles in American history: from our theaters came distinctive musical traditions for minstrelsy, melodrama, variety, vaudeville, operetta, musical comedy, and revue; the ballroom brought us dozens of novel dance musics, and springing from everywhere came popular song, ragtime, the Blues, and jazz. This album, perhaps more than any of our previous, reflects all of this sonic feast. There is also a wide range of musical intent here, from the silly (“Slidus Trombonus” for example) to the serious (“Ballade Moderne”). But what is continually striking is the amazing artistic energy of the “Eleven & Pno.” small orchestra itself: The number of different sounds, effects, and moods that it can successfully express has always been a source of admiration and inspiration.”
Produced by Judith Sherman,
Seven time Grammy Award winning
“Producer of the Year – Classical”
