Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

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Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby jwaggs » July 1st, 2013, 6:03 am

Been listening to Robert Shaw and James Booker recently.

Saw that Henry Gray, at 88, is still playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQUPhMU5dY
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby steve(thelil) » July 1st, 2013, 6:22 am

Love me some Booker. Here's a confession. I actually picked one up based on aebly's recommendation on JC.

For deeper blues piano (I regret the term already) you really can't beat Otis Spann, both on the classic Muddy sides and on his own LP.

Spann's Charly release "Nobody Knows Chicago Like I do" is a favorite. I was also lucky enough to have seen Sunnyland Slim live at B.L.U.E.S. in Chicago.
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby jwaggs » July 1st, 2013, 6:29 am

Thanks for reminding me to dig more deeply into Otis Spann.

One of my favorite jazz pianists is Jaki Byard, in part because he would often use some stride technique in his playing. You can hear it after about 5min into this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBFk54qBNk
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby jwaggs » July 1st, 2013, 6:56 am

This looks like the entire video from which that Jaki Byard piece came.

It's a live 1965 jazz piano workshop in Berlin.

Earl Hines, Teddy Wison, John Lewis, Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans and Jaki Byard. Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ctTJPOu-Sc
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

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Postby Mike Schwartz » July 3rd, 2013, 6:26 am

Art Tatum



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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby Mike Schwartz » July 3rd, 2013, 6:27 am

UP for plenty to chew on.....
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby bluenoter » August 13th, 2013, 4:11 pm

For the purposes of this thread, it's Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell (guitar) -- "Alabama Woman Blues." It was anthologized early on and so has long been dear to me.

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Postby bluenoter » August 13th, 2013, 5:04 pm

Another one by Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell (guitar) -- "Mean Mistreater Mama." I'm guessing that Robert Johnson had heard this record in particular.



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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby Tom Storer » September 5th, 2013, 10:56 am

My old man is a boogie-woogie enthusiast and had a record or two featuring Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons (father of Gene "Jug" Ammons), and Meade "Lux" Lewis. Great stuff.
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby moldyfigg » September 5th, 2013, 11:16 am

Those old guys could really bring it. Fats is my personal favorite, in part, because of his great little band.
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby Brian Olewnick » September 11th, 2013, 8:28 am

About a year ago, Derek Taylor prodded me to get the George Mitchell Collection on Fat Possum. So much great music in there....highly recommended.

(edit: just realized this was a specifically piano-oriented thread...well, there;s *some* piano in there, I think...)
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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby steve(thelil) » September 11th, 2013, 8:45 am

Bryant Park in mid-town Manhattan has a Piano in the Park lunch time series. From mid-Spring through late September they have someone playing almost every weekday. (Each pianist plays for a week from Monday-Friday)

The series started with Eubie Blake protege Terry Waldo, who is considered one of the greatest living Ragtime pianists. Here's the web site's note on Terry Waldo:

Ragtime expert & stride pianist, Terry Waldo is the protege of the late Eubie Blake. He has produced over 40 albums and written the definitive book on ragtime, This is Ragtime - republished recently by Jazz At Lincoln Center with a new introduction by Wynton Marsalis. His 26-part radio series with the same title, produced for National Public Radio, fueled the 1970's ragtime revival.
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A couple of weeks ago I caught Frank Owens in Bryant Park. Owens is one of those guys who seems to be able to do anything on piano, changing styles within a piece several times - without it seeming gimmicky. Despite his versatility, to my ears, his Stride Playing was the best part of his performance.

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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby jwaggs » January 20th, 2014, 7:50 am

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Re: Blues, boogie-woogie and stride piano

Postby jwaggs » March 23rd, 2014, 7:51 am

Tom Storer wrote:My old man is a boogie-woogie enthusiast and had a record or two featuring Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons (father of Gene "Jug" Ammons), and Meade "Lux" Lewis. Great stuff.


I bought this one a couple of months ago.

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/discograp ... es=3%20CDs

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