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When the Clemson Tigers take the field this weekend for their homecoming game against Wake Forest, they'll be cheered on by a 430-member band playing the high-energy fight song "Tiger Rag." The ...

The productive and receptive dynamics of Tiger Rag, perhaps the most famous piece of classical jazz, have been marked by irreconcilable controversies concerning both its correct authorial attribution ...

The Clemson Tigers will host the LSU Tigers at Memorial Stadium on Aug. 30, with kick-off scheduled for 7:52 p.m. Leading up to the game, fans can look forward to the First Friday Parade, which ...

The new video display scoreboard in Tiger Stadium's north side as seen from the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Sept. 13, 2024. (Matthew Perschall for Louisiana Illuminator) Two Baton Rouge-based ...

On July 5, 1904, this novel tells us, seven New Orleans musicians — the Buddy Bolden Band — gathered for a recording session. In those early days, they used wax cylinders attached to an Edison ...

NEW ORLEANS — Dean Ross believed the Clemson Corps band’s repertoire was stale. As cadet bandmaster, he accepted the duty to expand it. He could not search Spotify or swipe through the Google app. It ...

A legendary Gaffney historian who is credited by Clemson University with bringing the “Tiger Rag” fight song to the Upstate school died Tuesday. Dean Ross, 92, was the student band director at Clemson ...

Poet and novelist Christopher (Veronica) mixes fiction with jazz history in this delightful dual narrative. In July 1904, Charles “Buddy” Bolden, “the father of all jazz trumpeters,” is in New Orleans ...

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