tunes, sold well for Edison. Early ragtime banjo recordings by Van Eps included “A Bunch of Rags” (1900) and “A Ragtime Episode” (1902). He also recorded for a number of other companies, including Columbia (from 1904) and Victor (from 1910). His group the Van Eps Trio recorded steadily from 1912 to 1922. He also led other groups such as the Van Eps Quartet, the Van Eps Specialty Four, and the Van Eps Banjo Orchestra. The latter group was one of the first to record for the American branch of …
Tags: 1900's, 1910's, 1919, 1950's, 20's, 30's, Eps, Fred, Van
May 19th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I am curious to the recordings he made in the 50ths. Do you have some and would you please uploade one? Thank you for the daily portion good old jazz.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
i want this to be my theme song everwhere i go.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
this is brilliant
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Masterful, and don’t forget his exceptional son, jazz guitarist George van Eps
July 10th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Great recording! Is that Frank E. Banta on piano?
Don’t forget that this tune was composed by Charles N. Daniels.
His grand-niece and biographer, Nan Bostick, has reprinted the piano versions of this and several of his other fine tunes in a folio called “The Ragtime Era Music of “Uncle Charlie” Charles N. Daniels” which you can order online from the Ragtime Store of the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation.