A folk ragtime tradition also existed before and during the period of classical ragtime ( a designation largely created by Scott Joplin's publisher John Stillwell Stark ), manifesting itself mostly through string bands, banjo and mandolin clubs ( which experienced a burst of popularity during the early 20th Century ), and the like.

In the early 1940s many jazz bands began to include ragtime in their repertoire, and as early as 1936 78 rpm records of Joplin's compositions were produced.

Many of Taylor's early bands opened for many of the popular bands and artists of the ' 60s and ' 70s including Van Morrison, Janis Joplin's band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.

In the early 1890s, Joplin's friends, the brothers Tom and Charles Turpin, had done prospecting in the Searchlight area.

It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers.

The recording sessions, which began in early September, ended with Joplin's untimely death on October 4, 1970.

It was then, as an itinerant high-school dropout, that he was introduced to Appalachian musical traditions via the repertoire of the unsung Indiana combo Hurricane Sadee, whose performances of folk and bluegrass standards opened Joplin's eyes to a new world of lyrical depth and musical expression.

Bell had played with Ronnie Hawkins after the departure of the original Hawks, and was best known from his days as a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band.

* Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin's first band, lived in Lagunitas from 1966 – 1967, next door to Country Joe and the Fish and the Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Advertisement for Scott Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag " from the back page of a rag by Joseph Lamb.

The term " classic " was first applied to these compositions by Joplin's publisher, John Stark, as a way to distinguish them from what he considered the " common " rags of other publishers, but today the term is often used to describe a particular structural form used in ragtime composition.

The Turkey Trot was done to fast ragtime music popular in the decade from 1900 to 1910 such as Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.

The seeds of Among The Oak & Ash — the name is borrowed from the title of an old folk song — were planted during Joplin's teen years.

Joplin biographer Edward A. Berlin has said that Treemonisha may have mirrored details from Joplin's own life, writing that the opera was " a tribute to the woman he loved, a woman other biographers never even mentioned.

She admitted inspiration when she saw Joplin perform live ( and opened for with her first band " Fritz ") shortly before Joplin's death.

Hall and his wife, Johanna, had just gained notoriety when their song " Half Moon " had appeared on their friend Janis Joplin's posthumous album Pearl.

With Joplin as the lead singer, Helms became the group's manager and introduced them on stage when they made their crucial appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a performance that marked Joplin's elevation to national prominence.

Grossman testified that he had never known the extent of Joplin's substance abuse when she was alive, and that he secured the accidental death policy " with air crashes in mind.

This group had been playing mostly in the local New York Area, but when Janis Joplin's management convinced her to discard Big Brother and the Holding Company as her backing band, her record label put together a new group of musicians for her.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

In 1971 Joshua Rifkin brought out a compilation of Scott Joplin's work which was nominated for a Grammy Award.

The film's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag " The Entertainer " was a Top 5 hit in 1974.

In 1899, Scott Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag " was published, which became a great hit and demonstrated more depth and sophistication than earlier ragtime.

Although most ragtime was composed for piano, transcriptions for other instruments and ensembles are common, notably including Gunther Schuller's arrangements of Joplin's rags.

However its first performance, poorly staged with Joplin accompanying on the piano, was " disastrous " and it was never to be fully performed again in Joplin's lifetime.

First, pianist Joshua Rifkin brought out a compilation of Scott Joplin's work, Scott Joplin: Piano Rags, on Nonesuch Records, which was nominated for a Grammy in the " Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist ( s ) without Orchestra " category in 1971.

Hamlisch's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag " The Entertainer " won an Academy Award, and was an American Top 40 hit in 1974, reaching # 3 on 18 May.

Joplin's music was no longer popular by the 1930s, although its use in The Sting evokes the 1930s gangster movie, The Public Enemy, which also featured Joplin's music.

Janis Joplin's last known residence was located in Larkspur at 380 West Baltimore Avenue.

Joplin's three-story " House of Lords " was its most famous saloon, with a bar and restaurant on the first floor, gambling on the second, and a brothel on the third.

On November 11, 1978, Joplin's once-stately Connor Hotel, which was slated for implosion to make way for a new public library, collapsed suddenly and prematurely.

No injuries were reported, but the Islamic Society of Joplin's building was a total loss after the blaze, first reported at about 3: 30 a. m., the Jasper County Sheriff's Office said.

Originally titled Pearl, after Joplin's nickname, and the title of her last album, it was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.

The company has toured extensively both internationally and nationally The first national tour in 1975 to the Kennedy Center saw the company present Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.

Also significant is Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha, which is unique as a black jazz-folk opera ; it was first performed in 1911.

" Of these, Joplin's and Hendrix's deaths were drug-related ; Jones's may have been ( the coroner's verdict was " death by misadventure "; there has been much controversy surrounding the events leading to his death ); Holly died in a plane crash and Marley of cancer.

Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single and only the second posthumous number one single in rock & roll history ( the first was "( Sittin ' On ) The Dock of the Bay " by Otis Redding ).

Even in retirement Dunham continued to choreograph: one of her major works was directing Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha in 1972 at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

There was a family connection of sorts between the two men, since Joplin's first wife, Belle Hayden, had been Scott Hayden's sister-in-law.

As a popular psychedelic act of the late 1960s, many of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at Winterland ' 68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.

These included what is reputed to have been the first recorded version of Scott Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag "; no copies of these are known to exist today.

One of Joplin's friends, Sam Patterson, described this performance as " thin and unconvincing, little better than a rehearsal ... its special quality ( would have been ) lost on the typical Harlem audience ( that was ) sophisticated enough to reject their folk past but not sufficiently so to relish a return to it ".

Along with Joplin's first opera ( A Guest of Honor ( 1903 ), the orchestration notes for Treemonisha have been completely lost.

Historians have speculated that Joplin's second wife, Freddie Alexander, may have inspired the opera.

In addition, it has been speculated that Treemonisha represents Freddie, Joplin's second wife, because the date of the opera's setting was likely to have been the month of her birth.