www.artistopia.com One of WC Handy,s all time classics featured in the 1950’s movie “St. Louis Blues”. Nat King Cole played the composer, WC Handy. This blues (circa 1921) was sung by Pearl Bailey in the movie. The sheet music that you see at the opening of this video shows the young WC Handy (center photo) and his band in ‘21. In 1994 Jim recorded this blues for Pianomania music on Yamaha Disklavier. It was then procured by “Front Porch Music Rolls” and issued on standard piano roll format.
Westchester copyright attorney and jazz trumpeter, Dennis Angel wrote a little song called “The Wall Street Recession Time Blues” after getting the nerve to open up his IRA statements. Fifty plus radio stations across the country approved of the message in Summer 2009. The colleges in Boston were playing it so much that the Boston Herald profiled Dennis in September. Shot by Leighton Edmondson.
Piano Stories – Episode One: The 1917 Aeolian There’s an interesting trait that all piano technicians who rebuild pianos share. For reasons no one has ever been able to quite explain we all tend to accumulate pianos. It’s almost like they were dust bunnies in the way they somehow manage to pile up. Most of these pianos are well past any form of the word functional. In other words, most of them are junk. A piano rebuilding technician always knows when one of his rebuilding colleagues is in the process of moving their shop, because sooner or later a phone call is made asking if you would like a free piano or two. About four years ago, I received one of those phone calls from a friend and fellow rebuilder by the name of Roy. He asked me if I would like the “Aeolian”. I was familiar with the Aeolian he spoke of; it was a 1917 Baby Grand that was in horrible condition. The piano started life as a player piano, but over the decades since it was built it had long since lost its player unit, along with all of its finish ( and much of the wood beneath it ). Its strings were rusty, its hammers were shot; in fact, every moving part on it was shot. The keytops ,on the other hand, were in perfect conditon; I’ll never figure out how they survived. ” Why would you want this train wreck of a piano ?” you might ask. Well, the story of the Aeolian Piano Company is one of the great rags-to-riches-to-rags stories in American piano lore. In 1913, the Aeolian Company introduced its Duo-Art …
Created by myself 29.12.2007 in midi editor. It is a tribute to the great Piano player. Meade Lux Lewis – Honky Tonk Train Blues [3 - Honky Tonk Piano synth]. Based on the sheet music and original Meade Lux Lewis playing. Thanks to cam1987
www.jazzvideoguy.tv presents Count Basie, from the film, “Rhythm and Blues Review,” October 1950. The film is now in public domain and can be downloaded from http In between big bands, led this all-star group, which includes: Count Basie, piano; Wardell Gray, tenor sax; Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Clark Terry, trumpet; Freddie Green, guitar; Jimmy Lewis, bass; Gus Johnson, drums.
www.coreybarksdale.com New Orleans (pronounced nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects French: La Nouvelle-Orléans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. It is coextensive with Orleans Parish, meaning that the boundaries of the city and the parish are the same. It is bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany (north), St. Bernard (east), Plaquemines (south), and Jefferson (south and west). Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, and Lake Borgne lies to the east. The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans, Regent of France, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual Mardi Gras and other celebrations and festivals. The city is often referred to as the “most unique” city in America La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from the French city of Orléans. The …
From www.PlayPianoTODAY.com this is the updated full free version of Ch. 9 from the online blues piano lessons series. This chapter digs into a cookin’ left hand blues riff on the piano that really drives the rhythm of blues, black gospel and jazz. Check it out!
