Parlor Piano Solos from Rare Piano Rolls

Parlor Piano Solos from Rare Piano Rolls Artist: James P. Johnson
Label: Biograph
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 092631500028
EAN: 0092631500028
ASIN: B000003HMN


Release Date: 1997-11-04

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Tracks:

  1. Stop It
  2. When It's Cherry Time In Tokio
  3. Innovation
  4. Caprice Rag
  5. Caprice Rag (Take 2)
  6. Eccentricity
  7. Fascination
  8. Carolina Shout
  9. Don't Tell Your Monkey Man
  10. It Takes Love To Cure The Heart's Disease
  11. Loveless Love
  12. Doctor Jazzes Raz-Ma-Taz
  13. Roumania

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very Nice.......2001-04-26

This is a very nice album. It shows an unusual attention to detail for a piano roll to sound recording album. Piano rolls are essentialy rolls of paper with holes cut in them; these rolls of paper are then passed over a vacume bar. As the holes pass over the vacume bar they acuate the piano keys, each hole location a different key. Usualy foot pedals are pumped to create the above mentioned vacume. The result of this is usualy a "pump and go" approach with little attention paid to tempos and dynamics, that is where this album exceeds. There is adaquate attention to dynamics and the tempos, unlike many piano roll recordings, are resonable. The sound quality of the recording is exceptional and not at all grating. There are also some humorus anicdotes in the liner notes.

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