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Jim Hession
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Jim and Martha Hession have been fixtures on the jazz scene for decades. Jim Hession grew up in Pasadena, California, where he studied piano with composer Oscar Rasbach. By the time he was 20, Jim was a fixture in the traditional jazz scene, with his incredibly accurate two-handed piano style. A founding member of the Maple Leaf Club, Jim received his degree in composition from U.C.L.A., where he studied under Paul Chihara and Lalo Schifrin. Jim then met and began recording with the legendary Eubie Blake. While recording with Eubie Blake in New York, Jim began exploring more contemporary jazz venues, while retaining his handle on traditional jazz styles like ragtime, stride and boogie-woogie
Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride
By Jim Hession
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: Jingles; Alligator Crawl; Finger Buster; Mule Walk; Lonesome Reverie; Minor Drag; Ripples of the Nile; Jitterbug Waltz; The Charleston; Nothin'; Oh Suzanna, Dust, Dust Off That Old Piano; Viper's Drag; Spanish Venus; I'm Crazy About My Baby; Pork N' Beans; Black and Blue; Carolina Shout; Handful of Keys; Snowy Morning Blues; Spreadin' Rhythm Around; Little Rock Getaway.
Take Five With Jim Hession
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jim Hession:I started my career in Los Angeles at age 14 when I moved from classical piano to early jazz. By 16 I had joined the AFM and was working professionally. Piano work put me through UCLA music school, particularly at Disneyland and Mickie Finn's (San Diego) where I met my wife Martha ...
Jim Hession: Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride
by Wade Luquet
Jim Hession's Playing with Fire: Volume One, The Giants of Stride is both historical, and an impressive piece of stride piano playing. Hession began playing at a young age and was a fixture on the traditional jazz scene in California by the time he was 20. He was a protege of Eubie Blake, who he recorded ...
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