MP3 Nan Bostick - Soloing at the McCoys

Played from the heart, Nan Bostick presents an exquisite and toe-tapping tour of music from the ragtime to swing time era, featuring, of course, selections composed or published by her famous great uncle, Charles N. Daniels (Neil Moret).

19 MP3 Songs in this album (71:11) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Ragtime, EASY LISTENING: Tin Pan Alley

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Nan Bostick, of Menlo Park, CA, is the grandniece of Charles. N. Daniels, the ragtime era composer and music publisher who helped Scott Joplin promote his first rag in 1899. As Nan demonstrates in her recordings, her âUncle Charlieâ composed some excellent rags himself along with such well loved standards as: Chlo-e: Song of the Swamp, Moonlight and Roses, Sheâs Funny That Way, Sweet and Lovely, and You Tell Me Your Dream, Iâll Tell You Mine.

An avid researcher, educator, and writer, Nan always adds a bit of history to the toe-tapping music she plays. She specializes in information about the âIndian Intermezzoâ craze inadvertently initiated by her great uncleâs 1901 hit Hiawatha and the ragtime era of Detroit. She contributed the entry on Detroit ragtime composer Harry P. Guy for the Harvard/Oxford African American National Biography and continues tracking down details about ragtimeâs women composers, having co-authored the Lexicon of Ragtimeâs Women Composers with Dr. Nora Hulse. Nan is currently completing her great uncleâs biography.

Nan's multi-media school programs, concerts, and workshops are warmly received at festivals throughout the country including the West Coast, Scott Joplin, Blind Boone, Lake Superior, Ragtime in Randall, and Indianapolis Classic Ragtime festivals and the new Ragtime Street Fair at the Henry Ford Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI.

Cuts from Nan's first CD (Dualing at the McCoys) were used by Ken Burns in his PBS documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson." Nanâs own ragtime compositions are featured on her susequent CDs.