Like A Gun (Owen Steel)

"Atlanta Blues" is a great old standard by Spencer Williams.  I first heard it on a 1947 album by pianist Don Ewell.  Ewell had spent years working as a pianist in New Orleans, and the city had saturated his piano sound: whining blue notes; driving, stomping rhythm that refused to quit; and an endlessly-inventive flair for improvisation.  In this this performance I hope to convey a bit of that same spirit -- hope you enjoy!

Atlanta Blues

After midnight, sitting at my new grand piano in my uncharacteristically empty/lonely house, I improvised a blues for my friend Vincent.  Hope ya like it.

Blues For Vincent

The Ragtime Dance *rehearsal recording* |  arranged for the MTA Choral Society

I Am Thinking of my Pickaninny Days

Please Say You Will

Really-Friggen Snowy Morning Blues

Recorded this tune and posted it a couple years ago (on the very same piano too).  The fun part about playing tunes by Jelly Roll Morton is that you're never supposed to play them the same way twice.  Cheers. :)

Bert Williams - alt.

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Ain't Misbehavin' ft. Kaye Klapman

Around 1897 Scott Joplin wrote the "Maple Leaf Rag", and it was published in Sedalia, Missori, in 1899.  When the "Maple Leaf" reached print, the piano in this recording was already 48 years old!  It is now located in the Beaconsfield Historic House of Charlottetown, PEI, where this recording was made.  Hope you enjoy!

Max Keenlyside

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