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- adjective informal Resembling
ragtime music.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Randy Newman, who is not the most prolific songwriter, sprinkled his Jazzfest set with new songs: easy-rolling, ragtimey piano parts carrying lyrics that often drifted toward patter: sometimes political, sometimes personal.
Jazzfest: Randy Newman, From Cakewalks to Fats Domino - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Randy Newman, who is not the most prolific songwriter, sprinkled his Jazzfest set with new songs: easy-rolling, ragtimey piano parts carrying lyrics that often drifted toward patter: sometimes political, sometimes personal.
Jazzfest: Randy Newman, From Cakewalks to Fats Domino - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Once I settled in, though, I was soothed by the show's quaint use of sepia toned Manhattan-scapes and Roaring 20's tweakly ragtimey piano.
Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Once I settled in, though, I was soothed by the show's quaint use of sepia toned Manhattan-scapes and Roaring 20's tweakly ragtimey piano.
A Diversified Entertainment Fund Ben Barren 2005
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Some of the bands were more ragtimey, some of the bands were more what we now refer to as swing.
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A guitar solo went through a '70s-style voice bag; ragtimey fingerpicking led into an odd-meter section that was interrupted by a trumpet and quickly detoured toward funk.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010
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Well, new Earl Fuller rips, anyway -- Earl being a bandleader who recorded very ragtimey and jazzy dance sides in the late 1910s.
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The Fall or the ragtimey The Day Before War, but her songwriting can also be biting and incisive, like the bayou-blessed whimsy of
Herohill 2009
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