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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.

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Article: Album Review

Grant Simpson: Stride and True

Read "Stride and True" reviewed 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 ...


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