Rose Leaf Ragtime Club: Guest Performer Tom Brier

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Remembering Eubie Blake Joseph Lamb Story Name Dropping Ragtime Diary Ragtime Internet Radio Ruby Fradkin's First Festival Ragtime at St. Louis World's Fair On Swing in Ragtime Under the Ragtime Tent On Ragtime Verve and Tempo

Interviews
Hal Isbitz Knocky Parker

Festivals
Blind Boone Orange County RagFest So. Cal. Ragtime Festival Rocky Mountain Festival San Diego Jazz Festival Scott Joplin Festival Sutter Creek Festival West Coast Ragtime Festival

Reviews
Classic Jazz Brad Kay at the Unurban Ken Burns' "Jazz" Dawn of Century Ragtime Orchestra George McClellan CD Jelly Roll Morton, The Piano Rolls Nyle Frank's Raggin' Around Peter O'Brien Jazz Piano Ragged Rhythm Collection CD Ron Ross' "Ragtime Renaissance" Les Soper's "Ragtime for a Summer Afternoon" The Grove Dictionary of Jazz

Guest Performer Tom Brier

Sacramento's Tom Brier used to be California's greatest ragtime secret until the summer of 2001 when he made his debut at the Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia, MO. In his early thirties, this composing genius caught the ragtime bug when his parents purchased a Schubert mechanical player. He was only 4, but when he started picking out tunes he heard from the piano rolls, his parents immediately found him a teacher. Soon Tom was transcribing his own music and by age 11, he had composed nearly a dozen rags.

Today he has over 140 ragtime compositions to his name. Tom is a mainstay at West Coast ragtime events and has produced several of his own CDs. An avid sheet music collector, Tom is noted for performing and popularizing extremely rare but wonderful rags.

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