专辑简介

A culmination of numerous live performances together and personal research into the music of the ragtime era, the 1920s and '30s, "Hum All Your Troubles Away" presents pianist Adam Swanson and Grammy-winning Nashville drummer Danny Coots. The album includes a pleasing mix of various types of popular music with Adam's authentic, period piano styles and Danny's effortless, ingenious, never-overbearing percussion effects. From great rags like "French Pastry Rag" to songs from movies like "Rainbow on the River," the CD ends with two new compositions by ragtime composers Ian Whitcomb and Tom Brier. Recorded in two days at a top-quality studio in Nashville, TN. 76 minutes.

Adam Swanson is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of ragtime and early American popular music. He recently received his B.A. in classical piano performance and is now in his second year of graduate studies as a musicology student at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Although Adam is only twenty-three years old, he has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States, and he is the youngest three-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. He made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with multi-platinum-selling artist Michael Feinstein. Adam has performed at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington, D.C., as well as in Hungary and Switzerland. He has worked with such musicians as Toronto’s John Arpin, former rock star Ian Whitcomb, and legendary 1950s recording artist Johnny Maddox, who is one of Adam’s greatest influences. Adam performs every summer at the historic Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado, where he is musical director of the new Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival. Visit Adam online: www.adamgswanson.com.