Tribute to the Greats
ASIN: B00005QK6W
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Art Hodes (1904-93) was active in the Chicago since its 1920s jazz heyday, with a reputation as a scrappy defender of classic jazz values. The piano solos here, recorded between 1976 and 1978, pay tribute to early jazz heroes, from King Oliver to Cab Calloway. He doesn't imitate them--the honorees include few pianists--but makes his feelings plain via affectionate readings of songs they wrote or popularized. A barroom pianist of great charm, Hodes favored unhurried tempos, ringing right-hand chords, and leisurely left-hand commentary, but he could also whip off short bass runs fast enough to move at a blur ("Jackass Blues") without upsetting his dependable pulse. Beyond that, he's always attentive to melody and to shifting details of rhythm, harmony, and dynamics, aided by a precise touch at the keyboard, and the ability to call up reserves of manic energy to punch a tune through to the end, à la Earl Hines. His blues, stomps, and strolls sound newly minted: he evokes the old days without rinky-dink mustiness. --Kevin Whitehead
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Tribute to the Greats
Art Hodes Manufacturer: Delmark ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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Stride Piano
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ASIN: B00005QK6W Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
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Art Hodes (1904-93) was active in the Chicago since its 1920s jazz heyday, with a reputation as a scrappy defender of classic jazz values. The piano solos here, recorded between 1976 and 1978, pay tribute to early jazz heroes, from King Oliver to Cab Calloway. He doesn't imitate them--the honorees include few pianists--but makes his feelings plain via affectionate readings of songs they wrote or popularized. A barroom pianist of great charm, Hodes favored unhurried tempos, ringing right-hand chords, and leisurely left-hand commentary, but he could also whip off short bass runs fast enough to move at a blur ("Jackass Blues") without upsetting his dependable pulse. Beyond that, he's always attentive to melody and to shifting details of rhythm, harmony, and dynamics, aided by a precise touch at the keyboard, and the ability to call up reserves of manic energy to punch a tune through to the end, à la Earl Hines. His blues, stomps, and strolls sound newly minted: he evokes the old days without rinky-dink mustiness. --Kevin Whitehead
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Small Day Tomorrow-a Tribute to David Frishberg &
Manufacturer: MRC ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000CAA242 Release Date: 2003-07-01 |
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Tribute to the Piano Greats
Claude Bolling Manufacturer: Fremeaux & Assoc. Fr ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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Swing General
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ASIN: B00008IXBS Release Date: 2003-06-17 |
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Tribute to the Piano Greats
Claude Bolling Manufacturer: City Hall Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0002B6ZD8 Release Date: 2003-06-24 |
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This Moment, A Tribute to Harold Arlen
Manufacturer: JOG Music, Jazz and Other Greats ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0006ABXDM Release Date: 2004-10-09 |
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Suzzanne Douglas has done it all - starred on Broadway with Sting, can be seen in Warner Brother's syndicated television sitcom, The Parent'Hood, and has been in such movies as Tap with Sammy Davis, Jr and Gregory Hines, How Stella Got her Groove Back, and School of Rock. This Moment is her debut CD. The songs are all Harold Arlen tunes. Harold Arlen who wrote over 400 songs wrote songs like Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which has been called the best song of the 20th Century.Suzzanne, the producers,and musicans have taken one of the best loved composers of the 20th century and given new style and eloquence to some great old standards.
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