LP, Scott Joplin, Selections from "Treemonisha" & Five Classic Rags, VG+ to VG++

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ULTRA RARE RAGTIME JAZZ COMPOSED BY SCOTT JOPLIN.  
This LP was produced by Sam Charters and this rare label, Portents.  On Samuel Charters from the internet, from a testimonial following his passing in 2015:
"For nearly 50 years, Samuel Charters discovered and documented African American music. Starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954, Samuel Charters served as recording director for Prestige and Vanguard Records, producer for Sonet Records and owner of Gazell Records. He published many books about the blues and musicians who played the blues.  His most recent biography, Songs of Sorrow (University Press of Mississippi, 2015), is the story of Lucy McKim Garrison, the woman who was the creative force behind the first collection of spirituals of American slaves, the 1867 volume Slave Songs of the United States.  Samuel Charters’ new book of poetry What Paths, What Journeys: New & Selected Poems, issued last month under the Portents imprint, is a selection from his lifetime, “hymning nature, family, friendship, travel and the stuff of life.”
In the field, Samuel often collaborated with his wife Ann, who is a writer, literary scholar, photographer and pianist in her own right. Their quest to document African American music took them to St. Louis, Memphis, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, the Caribbean and as far as Africa. In these places, the Charters tried to record music that they believed was going to be lost. Their efforts to preserve and share the songs that they heard on their travels culminated in a working archive, the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture, that provides researchers with a complete experience of African American vernacular music."
He was also the founder of the independent record label Portents, which was also a publisher of books and other media.  This listing is for Portents 3, featuring two distincts sides.  On Side 1 are selections from the ragtime opera, Treemonisha (1911) featuring Carolyn Lewis, soprano, performing with the Utah State University Concert Choral, Ted Puffer, director and piano.  On Side 2 are "five classic rags (1899-1917) performed by his wife, Ann Charters.
The jacket is in EXCELLENT CONDITION, with light corner and edge wear, no splits, rings or marks.  The back paste-on is reverse from the front jacket, meaning you flip it over from the bottom to see the back jacket properly.  The LP was stored in a plain plastic inner sleeve, LOOKS QUITE PLAYABLE with a few very light visible scratches over clean vinyl, I'll grade in the range of VG+ to VG++.
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