Ragtime Makes Me Very Happy

Had a nice trip to Leeds on the train yesterday. I bought several CDs, including a Scott Joplin compilation that had many recordings that I have never heard on it (it had a very interesting version of Pineapple Rag on it, which was extended by about two minutes, and the left hand part on the strain that it usually ends on was altered to make more of an "oom-pah" sound. It was also raised a bit in pitch, but that could have just been the recording).
I also bought a Zappa compilation that I didn't know existed (Cheap Thrills - quite a common one, I hear), a Cannonball Adderly CD and CD on which Art Tatum and Ben Webster collaborate.

I also passed several interesting trains, but I wasn't particularly interested at the time. My brother, however, was.