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Winifred Atwell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram UK
• ASIN: B00004NJNB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,928 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Poor People Of Paris

2. Britannia Rag

3. Black & White Rag

4. Flirtation Waltz

5. Port Au Prince

6. Stranger In Paradise

7. Lady Of Spain

8. Raunchy

9. Left Bank

10. Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll

11. Jezebel

12. Plink Plank Plunk

13. Star Time

14. Nicolette

15. Moonlight Gambler

16. Portrait Of Painter Of Paree

17. Silver Shoes

18. Golden Tango

19. Coronation Rag

20. Story Of Three Loves

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Queen of the Keyboard, November 30, 2003

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Daniel Dennis (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

This is a remarkable recording by an entertainer who took Britain and the Commonwealth by storm with her brilliant playing
in the 1950's. Talk to professional pianists and they will tell you that no-one can replicate Winifred Atwell's playing. It's very intricate (she was a classically trained virtuoso, the first woman to be awarded LRCM in Music from the London Academy)
but immediately delightful on the ear. The bass effects she creates on her ragtime and boogie pieces have to be heard to be believed. Too bad there isn't accompanying video material of Winifred Atwellavailabe on this or other sites. She is still remembered fondly by people who saw her as one of the great entertainers of her time. If you like piano music you'll love this album.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gifted piano player of the honky tonk style of music with great performances on the keyboard., December 4, 2010

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J. T. Clough "cloughy (John)" (Ballard Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

I was only a young teenager in the 1950s - 60's and being from a musical family myself throughly enjoyed the playing of this great lady who has become a somewhat forgotton identity for her contribution to cleverly tickling the ivories on piano and providing an exceptional interpretation of wonderful songs to our benefit.
Her name only came to light recently to me, when I went through a box of old clocks purchased at an auction and discovered an item bearing her name, and authenticated as original.
She came from Trinidad and played in concerts around the Gold Coast region of Queensland Australia and married into an indigenous family in Northern New South Wales - something I did'nt know of at the time - died there, and buried near the town of Lismore in that State.
You learn something every day.
I have contact, via publication of my find through a local newspaper there, with a couple of people who knew of her - and I now have this CD, a gem, which re-invigorates musical memories of her wonderful talents. Thank you Winnie.