David Thomas Roberts  (1955-)
Last updated: 02.04.23
p_robertsdt.jpgAccording to the Internet source given below, is an American composer and musician born in Moss Point, Mississippi, United States known primarily as a modern ragtime composer. He is also a primitivist style painter.
His first recording, Music For a Pretty Baby, appeared in 1978. Pieces such as The Early Life of Larry Hoffer (1977), Roberto Clemente (1979), Pinelands Memoir (1995), Through the Bottomlands (1980)", and the suite, New Orleans Streets (?) have caused Roberts to be considered one of the leading contemporary ragtime-based composers. The New Orleans historian Al Rose called him "the most important composer of this half of the century in America."
Roberts coined the term Terra Verde (green earth) as a label for compositions which can not be considered as conventional ragtime, mostly by contemporary ragtime writers such as himself, Frank French, Scott Kirby, Hal Isbitz and others.
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url15.gif David Thomas Roberts Biography by wikipedia.org.  
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Ragtime Music CDs:
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cd15.gif David Thomas Roberts Best of New Orleans Ragtime Piano CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif David Thomas Roberts Folk Ragtime 1899-1914 flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif David Thomas Roberts New Orleans Streets 1981-1985 Suite for Piano flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif David Thomas Roberts Pinelands Memoir and Other Rags flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif
cd15.gif David Thomas Roberts Scott Joplin: The Complete Piano Music: Vol. 1 flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Various Artists A Century of Ragtime 1897-1997 flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Various Artists Orion-New Ragtime Guitar CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Dave Dallwitz Hooked on Ragtime - Vol. 1 CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra Echoes from the Snowball Club
cd15.gif  Trebor Jay Tichenor Ragtime Reunion
cd15.gif Mimi Blais Once Upon a Rag Time flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15it.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Richard Egan From the Land of Ragtime
cd15.gif Matthew Davidson Graceful Ghost flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif
cd15.gif Sue Keller Ragtime Reflections CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Joan Reynolds Deep Hollow CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif
cd15.gif Scott Kirby Centennial Sampler: Vol. 1 flag15us.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15es.gif
cd15.gif Scott Kirby More Damn Good Ragtime flag15us.gif
cd15.gif Scott Kirby Ravenna CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) flag15us.gif flag15uk.gif flag15de.gif flag15fr.gif flag15ca.gif flag15es.gif
This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 44 works by David Thomas Roberts (1955-). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located.
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
For Teresa 1974
Tallahassee 1975
Early Life of Larry Hoffer, The 1977
Kreole 1978
South Mississippi Glide, The 1978
Lily Langtry Comes to the Midwest 1979
Poplarville 1979
Roberto Clemente 1979
Braymer 1979-1980
Rock Island 1979-1980
Family Lines System, The 1980
Through the Bottomlands 1980
Waterloo Girls 1980
Annunciation Street 1985
Broad Avenue 1985
Burgundy Street 1985
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Decatur Street 1985
Farewell 1985
Fontainebleu Drive 1985
Franklin Avenue 1985
Interlude 1985
Introduction 1985
Magazine Street 1985
Napoleon Avenue 1985
Revenge 1985
Toulouse Street 1985
Waltz 1985
Maria Antonietta Pons 1986
Memories of a Missouri Confederate 1989
Girl Who Moved Away, The 1995
Pineland Memoir 1995
Anna ?
Title Year Attribution Remarks
       
Back to Marion County ?
Camille ?
Dixon ?
For Kansas City ?
Girl on the Other Side, The ?
Last Days of the Polo Grounds ?
Madison Heights Girl ?
Muscatine ?
New Orleans Streets Revenge ?
Pen Pals, The ?
Raul Casso in Laredo ?
To Nita ?
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youtube15.jpg Charbonneau by Scott Kirby performed by David Thomas Roberts 3:55 D.T. Roberts