One can’t help wondering if Nick LaRocca would have believed it if someone had told him exactly how much influence his song would have over a stadium of 90,000-plus. Make that more than 100,000 when ...
"Tiger Rag" (The Dial Press), by Nicholas Christopher: Buddy Bolden is a jazz legend whose powerful, original sound at the turn of the last century was so enthralling that some now call him the first ...
When the Clemson Tigers take the field this weekend for their homecoming game against Wake Forest, they'll be cheered on by a 430-member band playing the high-energy fight song "Tiger Rag." The ...
The showstopper will be the moment when Willis Delony plays “Tiger Rag” on the Steinway. But this won’t be just any version of “Tiger Rag,” played on just any Steinway. “It will be his transcript of ...
The productive and receptive dynamics of Tiger Rag, perhaps the most famous piece of classical jazz, have been marked by irreconcilable controversies concerning both its correct authorial attribution ...