Eubie Blake made ragtime respectable Music: The son of former slaves started out playing piano in Baltimore bawdy houses and later wrote five Broadway shows and hundreds of songs.

He plays the piano and composes music, but Reggie Robinson has barely had any formal music training. Yet he has become a master of ragtime.

He’s tickled the ivories and turned up smiles aplenty through the years, but “Doctor” Dave Messick didn’t play his piano just for the tips. He did it to share his love of music with the ...

"Ragtime" is a tragedy set to music. Unfortunately, the musical is also tragically out of date. Though well-staged by the Thalian Association under the direction of Michael Walton Jones, the story ...

Piano Celebration Week hosts thousands of local elementary school students for interactive ragtime concerts.

Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, fir ...

Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one … ...

Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from class one day, when he stopped into Lord of Life Lutheran Church ...

“Ragtime,” which opened Friday night at the NorShor, is one of the most dramatic musicals you will ever see, filled with passionate characters and powerful songs, performed by a stellar cast ...