Gulf Coast Blues

Artist: Dick Hyman
Label: Omega Classics
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 723918300924
EAN: 0723918300924
ASIN: B00000239O

Release Date: 1993-04-07

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Tracks:

Organ Grinder Blues
Achin' Hearted Blues
I'm Goin' Back to Bottomland
Wild Cat Blues
You Don't Understand
Shout, Sister, Shout
What's the Matter Now?
Gulf Coast Blues
Papa De-Da-Da
Let Every Day Be Mother's (Sweetheart's) Day
Nobody But My Baby (Is Getting My Love)
Cushion Foot Stomp

Customer Reviews:

Great Piano.......2006-07-25

Over the years Dick Hyman has recorded a number of solo piano albums featuring the work of particular composers, including Porter, Gershwin, Berlin, Ellington, Waller and Morton. This
1986 CD, however, is the most unexpected. For Dick Hyman to produce a tribute album to Clarence Williams is one of the more unlikely combinations in recent jazz history. What next -
Cecil Taylor plays Art Hodes? Williams was a mediocre pianist, once characterised as playing the piano as if he was wearing mittens. His importance in jazz was primarily as a publisher
(with rather questionable ethical practices) and a promoter of a lengthy series of entertaining small group recordings in the 1920s and 1930s. His compositions (or rather, those
compositions on which he claimed a composer credit) are rarely memorable, being better suited to band performance than to piano solo renditions.

Having said that, this is a very enjoyable CD. Hyman is in typically magnificent form, and plays a variety of styles, including those of James P. Johnson, Earl Hines and Jelly Roll
Morton. Wisely, Hyman does not replicate Clarence Williams' own style, except in the case of the much - recorded "Organ Grinder's Blues".

The quality of the recording is excellent - a first class piano and a very crisp and clear sound that does full justice to Hyman's ability. Highlights include a striding "Shout, Sister, Shout", a Hinesian "What's the Matter Now", and a "Cushion Foot Stomp" that recalls Jelly Roll Morton.

This is a CD that is well worth searching for.

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