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- Carl Sonny Leyland (right) and Tom Brier play "Russian Rag" by George L. Cobb, from 1918.
...and keep playing... ...and keep playing...
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From the Sunday afternoon finale concert at the 12th annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, 15 August 2010.
You can download the sheet music of this and most of Cobb's other pre-1923 (i.e., public domain) compositions from links included on this page:
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Tom's syncopated stop-time break at 4:47 and 4:48 is brilliant and real ragtime!
Sonny is equally brilliant to follow it with a Jimmy Blythe riff at 4:57 and 4:58!
They keep trying to out-do each other so much that Sonny's brilliant blues riffs inspire Tom to construct a magnificent ragtime improvisation between 5:46 and 6:01! It's almost a composition!
That funky thing with the walking bass and terrific right hand between 6:42 and 6:44 is truly delightful.
So is the ending!
the funny thing is that they both kinda know what the other guy is gonna play, noticeable at 3:57 when Tom just knew 'ow he's gonna go low here'. Absolute joy listening to this!
Oh, that IS great! Virginia enjoys playing duets with Tom. That video has Tom at his playful best.
The piano that Tom is playing is BEAUTIFUL.
I swear this gets better each time I listen to these legends of the keys 🎹 😎💪👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Seems to be paying homage to Prelude in C# minor.
Very cool story about how it got turned in to a rag: www.reddit.com/r/ragtime/comments/7pup22/the_amazing_story_of_how_george_cobbs_russian_rag/
Sounded almost like spooky scary skeletons at times; I love it!
The Natundi i thiugt the same thing
This is SOOOO EPIC! I can't get tired of it. I love how Carl hugs Tom at the end.
tom brier should be a legend
He is one.
Pray for him to get better after his terrible accident.
He IS, to me. :)))
he is to many
He already is!
I'm watching this is 2021...my Grandmother was so tiny...and could play the heck out of Russian Rag....this is one of my best memories...that little woman with the tiniest hands that could reach that octave with no problem...and boy, does this song give you a workout! I can play PART of it...but I'm simply terrible at it.
Absolutely phenomenal as usual. I love it at the end when Carl and Tom hug it out. Hope I can come to this festival someday.
Did you ever go?
I'm crying tears of joy and can't stop my foot from tapping even though it's got a cramp. This is rediculous
This came on on autoplay in the background and I thought for a second that I was listening to a jazzy remix of Prelude in C# minor. Then I saw what it was and... Yeah, it's basically a jazzy remix of Prelude in C# minor by Rachmaninoff lmao. Awesome performance.
So cool.
Pure magie on the piano with these guys right here
Great rendition played with lots of spirit. Exciting!
Sounds Like Rachmaninoff and Scott Joplin jamming out.
Tom you amaze me every time, great job :D
I just wrote "epic ragtime" and this was one of the first videos that came out!
EspurrMaster same
If you found anything near that, please post. I can't think of a more accurate video!
Search “Caprice Rag” by James P Johnson. Both his own recording from 1943 and Jim Turner’s much later CD recording on “The Dazzler”. Both truly EPIC!
*came up
@@andrewbarrett1537 Wow thank you for the recommendation!
I think I've watched this every day for the last two weeks now.
AH, yes this was a great duet I remember laughing so hard near the end that was neverending...thanks for camera duty Ron!
Thanks Ron for posting this.........I have been waiting for you to put it up......Nice Job!!
Hi Ron, thanks for the truly epic post.
One thing to guarantee more hits: include "Russian Rag" in the actual title of the video. Little things like this (for example, including the tune title "Sensation Rag" in the title of the Joseph Lamb video, and "Junk Man Rag" in the title of the Luckey Roberts video) will guarantee more hits for sure, since the video pops out more when someone curious about that tune wants to hear it!
This deserves to be one of the top TH-cam hits for "Russian Rag"
Yeah, they sure make a good team. The audience certainly loved that one too. I think I heard someone call out "You're amazing!" after Tom finished his extended outro.
I love this! :)
@lbrown21494 Yes, years ago. There's a video of Tom and Frederick Hodges doing a four-hand piano version of Russian Rag, where at the end Adam Swanson joins in making it five hands.
@KawhackitaRag Yeah, I realized there are dozens of videos of Russian Rag, so it might get lost in the mix, but I wanted it titled just to attract the random person looking for a piano duet. I figured I'd add the title eventually. Maybe I'll do it now that I'm thinking of it!
@KawhackitaRag Later, when it was Tom's turn in the solo+duet concert, he called up Sonny and they did Original Rags. Not quite as epic, but it's also was about seven minutes long and is one of the few left from the festival I want to post before WCRF next weekend, so keep an eye out! I'll have to post two videos per day to get through the backlog in time...
БЛЕСТЯЩЕ!,,,,
Such a good rag! Well done Tom and Sonny :-)
this should be in a halloween playlist
I love the change at 0:52
TREMENDOUS! RAG.
NO! It's Stride Piano! At minimum. If not novelty-piano.
This piece of duett is AWESOME, full of virtuosity and creepy stride-piano chords.
Ragtime is old and slow, only good game for small childs. Only a piece for boring Scott Joplin.
The vast majority of ragtime is not slow. It's very lively music, generally about 100 beats per minute or more. Only a few are intended to go slower than that.
Yes. Most was for dancing the two step, which isn't slow.
Cmon theres gotto be a transcription for this, this is way to epic
I demand more explosions when Tom plays Piano for any reason D:
@Keeper1st
But don't forget his recent 'Solace' performance...that was such a surprise, and such a treat!
Good ole Rachmaninoff.
prelude in C# minor ;)
There's no way that this isn't the main inspiration for the Super Mario over-world theme song.
Not this particular piece, perhaps, but ragtime in general. That is ragtime music, after all, just with weird synthesizer sounds.
Bravo!!!
@isambo400 I'm pretty sure I've heard Sonny play this solo. Tom typically doesn't play well-known tunes solo (everybody else plays the well-known stuff, so why should he when he has mountains of obscure sheet music that he can present?).
Wow, just... wow. How do they _do_ that!?
Practice. Years and years of practice.
Probably learnt piano since like 3 years old
Listening to and playing literally thousands of pieces of sheet music, old 78 and cylinder records and piano rolls, and learning from the original masters.
amazing :O
КрасавчЕГи!!
Rachmaninoff would be proud
@Megabine No -- only five.
I hear that TB was in a bad car accident last summer. Does anyone know how he is now please?
Beginning to be able to speak. He's making an effort to use his more-paralyzed right limbs. I think he's starting to realize he has to work them if he wants to be able to use them properly again.
He's in a rehab center getting physical and speech therapy -- I believe daily. He's having a difficult time speaking and he can't play the piano -- at least, to the best of my understanding, not his right hand.
Can you ask Tom's family for a mailing address where his fans can send notes, cards, letters, IF he would enjoy getting mail? Having spent weeks in rehab hospital I know his space for personal items is quite limited & 'gifts' should & must be discouraged. Cards don't take up much space. Personally, I want him to know he's not forgotten. I don't think Tom has much patience for ignorance, but this is the hardest gig he's EVER going to play. Notes, cards even from fools like me could make him a laugh.
Richard
Hannay
XD the ending was so cute especially 6:50 ^^
Another awesome duet of this rag is the video "/watch?v=W-mUtKmET44". It's at a house concert, and they sure get wild quickly!
Whoever thumbed down is not a true Kossack! To the gulag they go!!!
Cossacks were mostly Ukrainian though
I assume this is based on Rachmoninov's prelude in c sharp minor?
Of course. The composer once played it with Rachmaninoff in attendance, I've heard.
@KawhackitaRag I just put in "Epic russian piano"
The last minute should be "The Dueling Pianos"
Never thought the words "epic "piano" and "duet" could be used correctly to describe something. Have you posted this song before? It sounds familiar
"like" on 20 April 2016 :)
кабы к ним добавить Лёню Чижика и Даника Крамера ... вот это бала бы бомба !...
does he ever play this song by himself?
So this song has 1... no 2... wait... 3 endings! lol
@KawhackitaRag
continuing what I just wrote, I just put
"
epic piano duet
"
in the TH-cam search box, and this is the FIRST video that came up!
Pretty darn good!
So, in other words, I would keep the title of this (and your other videos) intact, just include the title at the end of the original title, so that people know what the tune is. Of course, it's your video so you can do what you please with it, this is just a suggestion!
It was not too slow. My playback speed was on 0.75. Sorry.
@Keeper1st Or 6 hands xD
Good Horror Flick tune! Disaster movies, etc. (The Russians are known for their disaster flick music.)
Too slow