Artist's albums
That Demon Rag!
1998 · album
Knockout Drops
1997 · album
Black Manhattan, Vol. 3
2017 · album
Irving Berlin - "This Is the Life!"
2015 · album
The Pioneers of Movie Music
2014 · album
Minding the Score: The Music of Harry L. Alford
2013 · album
Black Manhattan, Vol. 2
2012 · album
Round the Christmas Tree
2001 · album
More Candy
2001 · album
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Biography
In 1985, Rick Benjamin stumbled across priceless arrangements of the Arthur Pryor Orchestra which had been lost for 65 years. After acquiring the vast amount of music, Benjamin formed the 15-piece Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, an ensemble that during the past decade has performed works ranging from rags and early popular music to novelties and even satires of classical music. They have thus far recorded three excellent sets for Newport Classic and Dorian Discovery that show that there was always more to ragtime than piano solos! ~ Scott Yanow