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Uptown and Lowdown

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Yacht Club Swing, Brush Lightly, Blook's Dues, Old Fashioned Love, Mule Walk, Closed Mouth Blues, The Shout, Toddlin' Home, Alligator Crawl, Oh Baby, Watcha Doing To Me, Liza, The Shiek of Araby, I Found a New Baby, Wolverine Blues, Blues in Englewood Cliffs.

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Live at Hanratty's

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Cha Cha for Charlie; I Wish I Were Twins; Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You; Quincy Street Stomp; Barbara Song; How Could I Be Blue?; Medley: Georgia Cabin/Ghost of the Blues; Ain't Misbehavin'; Medley: Deed I Do/Georgia on My Mind/Don't Let It Bother You; I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket; Medley: Looking at You/You've Been a Good Ole Wagon; Runnin' Wild; So in Love; Everybody Loves My Baby; A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; Cornet Chop Suey; My Shining Hour

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Dick Wellstood & Cliff Jackson: Uptown and Lowdown

Read "Uptown and Lowdown" reviewed by David Rickert


Both Dick Wellstood and Cliff Jackson favor a style of jazz that today is seldom marketable-the pre-war stylings of Fats Waller and James P. Johnson. Occasionally this time of music becomes fashionable again, but frequently while being labeled traditionalists these artists assume the noble task of preserving jazz’s early years at the expense of wide acclaim. ...

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Dick Wellstood/ Cliff Jackson: Uptown & Lowdown

Read "Uptown & Lowdown" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Pairing purveyors of two distinct strains of traditional jazz this Fantasy two-fer is something of textbook study of the piano styles inherent in each. Cliff Jackson, the elder of the two, is representative of the first generation of Harlem Stride pianists. His group takes the disc’s final four cuts and contains several legends of the music’s ...

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Dick Wellstood: Live at Hanratty's

Read "Live at Hanratty's" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Originally a double LP, this CD reissue captures Dick Wellstood in a live performance at Hanratty's, once, but no longer, one of the prime venues to hear jazz piano. Wellstood is in terrific form here. One of the foremost stride pianists, he's in the same league with Luckey Roberts, Willie “The Lion" Smith and James P. ...

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Dick Wellstood: Dick Wellstood: Live At Hanratty's

Read "Dick Wellstood: Live At Hanratty's" reviewed by Mike Neely


The Chiaroscuro Jazz label has begun the worthy project of re-issuing a series of recordings by the pianist Dick Wellstood. Live At Hanratty’s is an excellent introduction to this much underrated pianist. It is a solo outing, from 1981, digitally re-mastered. Throughout, Wellstood demonstrates why Sidney Bechet recorded with him twice, and also why he was ...

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Live at Hanratty's

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Cha Cha for Charlie; I Wish I Were Twins; Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You; Quincy Street Stomp; Barbara Song; How Could I Be Blue?; Medley: Georgia Cabin/Ghost of the Blues; Ain't Misbehavin'; Medley: Deed I Do/Georgia on My Mind/Don't Let It Bother You; I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket; Medley: Looking at You/You've Been a Good Ole Wagon; Runnin' Wild; So in Love; Everybody Loves My Baby; A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; Cornet Chop Suey; My Shining Hour

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Dick Wellstood Live at Hanratty's

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Cha Cha for Charlie; I Wish I Were Twins; Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You; Quincy Street Stomp; Barbara song; How Could I Be Blue; Georgia Cabin/Ghost of the Blues; Ain't Misbehavin'; Deed I Do/ Georgia On My Mind/Don't Let Me Bother Me; I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket; Looking At You/You've Been A Good Ole Wagon; Runnin' Wild; So In Love; Everyone Loves My Baby; A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody; Coronet Chop Suey; My Shining Hour. (Total Time: 70:25)

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Dick Wellstood: Dick Wellstood Live at Hanratty's

Read "Dick Wellstood Live at Hanratty's" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Art, Oscar, Dave, and Dick.. Hmmmm. Dick Wellstood is popping up everywhere nearly 13 years after his unfortunate death. The Arbor release Dick Wellstood Live at the Sticky Wicket was selected as one of the best jazz recordings of the 1990s. Al White, in his book Jazz Party devotes several pages to the pianist. And now ...

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Dick Wellstood: Live at Hanratty's

Read "Live at Hanratty's" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Originally a double LP, this CD reissue captures Dick Wellstood in a live performance at Hanratty's, once, but no longer, one of the prime venues to hear jazz piano. Wellstood is in terrific form here. One of the foremost stride pianists, he's in the same league with Luckey Roberts, Willie “The Lion" Smith and James P. ...


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