We’re partial to musical instrument hacks around here, mainly because we find instruments to be fascinating machines. Few are more complex than the piano, and, as it turns out, few are quite so ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --He plays the piano and composes music, but Reggie Robinson has barely had any formal music training. Yet he has become a master of ragtime. CBS 2's Harry Porterfield says he's Someone ...

Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Johnny Maddox, a legendary ragtime pianist who was a mainstay at the Diamond Belle Saloon for 16 years, died Tuesday in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 91. Maddox had an illustrious career, first taking ...

Pioneers in the use of four-hands jazz piano, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread notoriety with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie-woogie ...

Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...