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Jazz
Recorded live at the Jazz Piano Workshop of the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival on June 20, 1965
Rhythm section:
Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums.
* bonus tracks, not part of original LP
Produced by George Wein with Brad McCuen
Recording engineer: Ed Begley
Produced for release by Michael Cuscuna
Remixed from the original three-track tapes and mastered in 24-bit by Mark Wilder, Sony Studios
Tracks 1, 5-9, 11-14 and 19 originally issues as The Jazz Piano (RCA Victor LSP-3499)
Track 3 originally issued on Duke Eillington - Solos, Duets & Trios (Bluebird CD-2178)
Tracks 2,4,10 and 15-18 are previously unreleased
Note: The small drop-outs in track 2 are in the original recording. All timings include applause.
The "Various Artists" on this album read like the history of jazz piano: Willie "The Lion" Smith, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Taylor and Charles Bell. The occasion was a piano workshop on a Sunday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival in 1965, obviously a time when giants still walked the earth.
The original album contains only ten tunes. This CD reissue contains all 19 performances, newly remixed from the original three-track masters, adding new material from Smith, Williams, Taylor and Bell. The concert is now presented in the order in which it was performed.
Each pianist performs solo or with bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley. Earl Hines duets with Ellington on an improvised blues and with Taylor on "Sweet Lorraine." The concert closes with a blow-out version of "Rosetta" with Hines, Smith, Williams, Taylor and George Wein sharing two pianos. A one-of-a-kind event.
While Duke, Earl and Mary Lou are masters of "stride" piano, the dean of "stride" pianists is, without a doubt, Willie "The Lion" Smith... Charles Mingus commented, after hearing Willie demonstrate the finer aspects of "stride" piano, "Most guys need a whole band to swing like that."
--- Billy Taylor, liner notes |
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