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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Relaxin'
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| 2. | Pre-World War I Days
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| 3. | Sand Dune/Alexander's Ragtime Band
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| 4. | Shine/That Barbershop Chord Red Head/Where's My Red, Red Rose
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| 5. | Blue Skies
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| 6. | Nagasaki/Runnin' Wild/Diga Diga Doo/Got Everything But You/Doin' ...
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| 7. | Love Will Find a Way/I'm Just Wild About Harry/Chevy Chase/Memories of
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| 8. | A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid/Old Fashioned Love/Carolina Shout
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Ain't Misbehavin/Keeping Out of Mischief Now
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| 2. | Willie Remembers...
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| 3. | Sophisticated Lady/Solitude/Portrait of the Duke Satin Doll
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| 4. | When It's Sleepy Down South/The Shiek of Araby
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| 5. | Willie
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| 6. | Keep Your Temper
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| 7. | Bring on the Band
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| 8. | Willie
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| 9. | The Old Stamping Ground
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| 10. | Harlem Joys/Willie Leads Music
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| 11. | Harlem Joys/Willie Leads Music
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| 12. | Harlem Joys/Willie Leads Music
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| 13. | Love Remembers
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| 14. | Willie
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| 15. | I'm All Out of Breath
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| 16. | Tango a la Caprice
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| 17. | Sneakaway
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Jazz
Willie "The Lion" Smith - Piano
* Dave Hecht - Photography
* Don Miller - Engineer
* Donald Elfman - Reissue Producer
* Mike Lipskin - Original Liner Notes, Producer
* Rosalind Llett - Editing, Mastering
This double LP is the equivalent of Jelly Roll Morton's Library of Congress recordings. The legendary Willie "The Lion" Smith reminisces about his colorful life, plays some piano and warbles out some vocals. Particularly interesting are his stories of the early days, his medleys of songs associated with Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Duke Ellington, and his performances of eight of his own compositions, some of which are quite obscure. Not everything works and some of the talking rambles on a bit, but overall this is a fascinating historical document that has many interesting moments.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Willie "The Lion" Smith
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Nov 25, 1897 in Goshen, NY
Died: Apr 18, 1973 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Classic Jazz, Piano Blues, Stride
Willie "The Lion" Smith in the 1920s was considered one of the big three of stride piano (along with James P. Johnson and Fats Waller) even though he made almost no recordings until the mid-'30s. His mother was an organist and pianist, and Smith started playing piano when he was six. He earned a living playing piano as a teenager, gained his nickname "the Lion" for his heroism in World War I, and after his discharge he became one of the star attractions at Harlem's nightly rent parties. Although he toured with Mamie Smith (and played piano on her pioneering 1920 blues record "Crazy Blues"), Smith mostly freelanced throughout his life. He was an influence on the young Duke Ellington (who would later write "Portrait of the Lion") and most younger New York-based pianists of the 1920s and '30s. Although he was a braggart and (with his cigar and trademark derby hat) appeared to be a rough character, Smith was actually more colorful than menacing and a very sophisticated pianist with a light touch. His recordings with his Cubs (starting in 1935) and particularly his 1939 piano solos for Commodore (highlighted by "Echoes of Spring") cemented his place in history. Because he remained very active into the early '70s (writing his memoirs -Music on My Mind in 1965), for quite a few decades Willie "the Lion" Smith was considered a living link to the glory days of early jazz.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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