Art Hodes - Pagin' Mr. Jelly

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1989
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:38
Size: 134,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:34)  1. Grandpa's Spells
(5:06)  2. Mamie's Blues
(3:09)  3. High Society
(4:23)  4. Mr. Jelly Lord
(5:23)  5. Buddy Bolden's Blues
(2:52)  6. Pagin' Mr. Jelly
(3:54)  7. Original Jelly Roll Blues
(6:11)  8. Winin' Boy Blues
(2:34)  9. Beale Street Blues
(3:32) 10. Wolverine Blues
(3:11) 11. Ballin' the Jack
(3:34) 12. The Pearls
(4:56) 13. Gone Jelly Blues
(3:27) 14. Doctor Jazz
(2:45) 15. Oh! Didn't He Ramble

Art Hodes was just ten days short of his 84th birthday at the time of this Candid solo piano CD. Hodes had his own style for quite a few decades by then. A masterful blues player, on the more up-tempo tunes, Art's left hand tended to state each beat in double-time, a very effective device. For this tribute to Jelly Roll Morton, Hodes performs 13 tunes recorded by Morton (eight of which Jelly Roll wrote) along with two of his own originals: a blues number and "Pagin' Mr. Jelly," which is partly based on Morton's "King Porter Stomp." The five faster performances really stomp, the three medium-tempo renditions swing, and the seven more introspective pieces are quite soulful. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/pagin-mr-jelly-mw0000308546

Pagin' Mr. Jelly

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