Jazz Articles about Wally Rose

Wally Rose: Whippin'The Keys

by Nic Jones
June 4, 2008

Pianist Rose was an original member of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band and played a key role in the traditional jazz revival of the decade immediately after the end of World War Two. This CD documents another aspect of his work, namely that of solo ragtime piano playing. It brings together two LPs recorded in 1968 and 1971, but the music itself is essentially outside of time as, even then, the rag form was a at least a half-century ...