Phantom Fingers

Alex Hassan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 4, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Stomp Off Records
• ASIN: B000009D59
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #645,864 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Originola

2. Igloo Stomp (Will Thaw Icycles)

3. Hollywood Stars

4. Palm Days Medley: (My Baby Said) Yes Yes/Bend Down Sister/There's ...

5. When the White Lilacs Bloom Again

6. Mindin' the Baby

7. Phantom Fingers

8. To Beat the Band Medley: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo/Santa Claus Came in ...

9. Snow Shoes

10. Hobby Horse Parade

11. Fantasy on Billy Mayerl Show/Film Tunes: You're the Reason ...

12. The Angel Cake Lady and the Gingerbread Man

13. Three Syncopated Romances: Ballade/Nocturne/Rondeau

14. Perils of Pauline

15. Burton Lane Song Fantasy: Your Head on My Shoulder/Bottoms up/What Did

16. When We Ride on the Merry-Go-Round

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful syncopated piano music, July 12, 2000

By 

Anthony A. Ponaras - See all my reviews

This review is from: Phantom Fingers (Audio CD)

In the time period between World Wars I and II a large amount of ingenious (and often virtuosic) piano music was created by classically-trained but jazz-influenced musicians. Pianist Alex Hassan refers in his liner notes to this idiom as "NSR" - novelty/syncopated/rhythm piano. Most of the tunes on this CD are superb, albeit obscure, examples. Up-tempo numbers such as "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo," "Yes, Yes," "Originola," and the two very technically difficult novelties by Bill Wirges ("Igloo Stomp" and "Snow Shoes") are played by Hassan with infectious charm. The slower numbers such as the "Fantasy on Billy Mayerl Show/Film Tunes" are played with lyrical grace. These tunes have been playing in my mind ever since I bought the CD. I await Hassan's next offering.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Catchy tunes, May 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Phantom Fingers (Audio CD)

I had only heard about six of these tunes before buying the CD. But the tunes are great, and so is the playing. The fast numbers are sort of like a cross between tap-dance-rehearsal piano and cocktail piano. This CD really perks me up in the morning.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars superb, October 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Phantom Fingers (Audio CD)

The tunes are great, the playing is great. What more could I want? In the words of composer Sanford Green: "this Hassan guy is some kinda Horowitz!"