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Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride

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.

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Jim Hession: Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride

Read "Playing With Fire Volume One: The Giants of Stride" reviewed by Wade Luquet

by Wade Luquet
February 11, 2009

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 ...