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Stride and True
Label: Grant Simpson
Released: 2007
Track listing: If I Could Be With You One Hour; Dollar Dance; Load of Cole; You Can't Loose a Broken Heart; On the Street Where You Live; So Beautiful Like You; Stridin' for HJ; The Pearls; Just as Though You Were Here; How Can You Face Me?; Viper's Drag; Love of My Life; Just Before Daybreak; Echo of Spring; The Mule Walk; Whitehorse Blues.
Grant Simpson: Stride and True
by Robert R. Calder
Grant Simpson hits the piano cleanly, and he sounds like he hits it hard. He mentions the ever-present dry wit" of Dick Wellstood when introducing a performance of Wellstood's Dollar Dance," whose composer called it a distant relative" of Jelly Roll Morton's Perfect Rag." Though it's necessary to mention Wellstood's likely influence on Simpson's slowish tempo ...