Artist: David Chesky
Album: The New York Rags
Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Release Date: 2012
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 41:30
Total Tracks: 18
Total Size: 1,28 GB

Tracklist:

01. David Chesky – Rag No. 1 “The New Yorker” (01:53)
02. David Chesky – Rag No. 2 “The Bernstein” (02:06)
03. David Chesky – Rag No. 3 “The Duke” (02:06)
04. David Chesky – Rag No. 4 “Times Square” (02:39)
05. David Chesky – Rag No. 5 “Fourth Street” (02:26)
06. David Chesky – Rag No. 6 “Third Avenue” (02:21)
07. David Chesky – Rag No. 7 “Broadway Boogie Woogie” (02:12)
08. David Chesky – Rag No. 8 “Fifth Avenue” (02:12)
09. David Chesky – Rag No. 9 “Grand Central Morning” (02:14)
10. David Chesky – Rag No. 10 “Seventh Avenue” (02:27)
11. David Chesky – Rag No. 11 “The Circle at Fifth” (02:21)
12. David Chesky – Rag No. 12 “The Park Avenue Rag” (02:21)
13. David Chesky – Rag No. 13 “The Thanksgiving Day Parade Rag in 7/4” (02:07)
14. David Chesky – Rag No. 14 “Kids You’re Late for School Rag” (02:09)
15. David Chesky – Rag No. 15 “The Manhattan Blues Variations Rag” (02:17)
16. David Chesky – Rag No. 16 “Penn Station” (01:59)
17. David Chesky – Rag No. 17 “The J Walker Rag” (02:24)
18. David Chesky – Rag No. 18 “The Coney Island Rag” (03:16)

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David Chesky’s series of 18 modern virtuoso solo piano rags are inspired by life in the bustling and intense metropolis of New York City, a place he has called home since 1974. The work seems to owe as much to Henry Cowell and Charles Ives’ use of dissonance, Elliott Carter’s atonalism, Conlon Nancarrow’s experimental piano rolls, Leonard Bernstein’s syncopation, and Cecil Taylor’s whirlwind free jazz as they do to Joplin’s ragtime classics. These pieces are taken from Chesky’s unique rhythmic and harmonic style of composition, fused together with stride piano and ragtime to capture the everyday life of modern pulsating New York City. This album was recorded in Binaural+ for both speaker and 3D headphone playback and has EXTREME dynamics, so please set your playback levels carefully.