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| 1. | Keep Off the Grass
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| 2. | Like Someone in Love
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| 3. | I've Got a Crush on You
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| 4. | Who?
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| 5. | Birmingham Breakdown
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| 6. | Froggie Moore
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| 7. | Thou Swell
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| 8. | Caravan
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| 9. | Snowy Morning Blues
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| 10. | What's the Use of Being Alone?
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| 11. | Fine and Dandy
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| 12. | California Here I Come
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| 13. | Old Man River
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| 14. | Manhattan/The Sidewalks of New York
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Jazz
Dick Hyman - Piano
Dick Wellstood
* Bill Airey Smith - Design, Formatting
* Bill Hemmerick - Original Executive Producer
* Malcolm Addey - Engineer
* Michael McNamara - Photography
* Paul J. Hoeffler - Cover Photo
* Phil Sheridan - Engineer
* Ted Carson - Mastering
* Ted O'Reilly - Producer
This is a particularly exciting set. Dick Hyman and Dick Wellstood meet up on a variety of heated selections and try to outstride each other. Wellstood (just a year before his death) has "Caravan" as his feature while Hyman takes "I've Got a Crush on You" solo, but it is the eight collaborations (particularly "Keep Off the Grass," "Birmingham Breakdown" and "What's the Use of Being Alone") that are most memorable. This album was put out by the Canadian Unisson label and is quite exciting. [A U.K. version of Stridemonster! was also released.]
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Dick Hyman
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 08, 1927 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing, Stride, Classic Jazz, Standards, Lounge, Spy Music
A very versatile virtuoso, Dick Hyman once recorded an album on which he played "A Child Is Born" in the styles of 11 different pianists, from Scott Joplin to Cecil Taylor. Hyman can clearly play anything he wants to, and since the '70s, he has mostly concentrated on pre-bop swing and stride styles. Hyman worked with Red Norvo (1949-1950) and Benny Goodman (1950), and then spent much of the 1950s and '60s as a studio musician. He appears on the one known sound film of Charlie Parker (Hot House from 1952); recorded honky tonk under pseudonyms; played organ and early synthesizers in addition to piano; was Arthur Godfrey's music director (1959-1962); collaborated with Leonard Feather on some History of Jazz concerts (doubling on clarinet), and even performed rock and free jazz; but all of this was a prelude to his later work. In the 1970s, Hyman played with the New York Jazz Repertory Company, formed the Perfect Jazz Repertory Quintet (1976), and started writing soundtracks for Woody Allen films. He has recorded frequently during the past several decades (sometimes in duets with Ruby Braff) for Concord, Music Masters, and Reference, among other labels, and ranks at the top of the classic jazz field.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Dick Wellstood
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Nov 25, 1927 in Greenwich, CT
Died: Jul 24, 1987 in Palo Alto, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ragtime, Stride, Classic Jazz, Trad Jazz
One of the two great stride pianists (along with Ralph Sutton) to emerge during the 1940s when members of their generation were generally playing bebop, Wellstood kept an open mind toward later styles (he loved Monk) while sounding at his best playing classic jazz. A little more subtle than Sutton, Wellstood was also a powerful pianist who was a superb interpreter of the music of James P. Johnson and his contemporaries. He came to New York with Bob Wilber's Wildcats in 1946 and caught on in the trad jazz scene quickly. By 1947 he was playing with Sidney Bechet, and in the 1950s he mostly worked with veteran players including trumpeters Roy Eldridge, Rex Stewart, and Charlie Shavers and the Eddie Condon gang. He was in the intermission band at Condon's starting in 1956 and later was house pianist at the Metropole and Nick's. After a period with Gene Krupa's quartet, he toured with the World's Greatest Jazz Band. Wellstood remained active throughout his all-too-short life, playing solo concerts, performing at jazz parties, and recording quite a few memorable albums.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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