Piano Wizards

Piano Wizards | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1995)
• Original Release Date: November 21, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Memphis Archives
• ASIN: B000003UEG
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,714 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Jazz > Traditional Jazz & Ragtime > Boogie-Woogie

Track Listings

1. Honky Tonk Train - Meade Lux Lewis

2. Clothes Line Ballet - Fats Waller

3. Fat Francis - Jelly Roll Morton

4. Chicago High Life - Earl Hines

5. Fast & Furious - Duke Ellington

6. Shout For Joy - Albert Ammons

7. Cafe Society Rag - Albert, Meade & Pete

8. Wild Flower Rag - Clarence Williams

9. In A Mist - Bix Beiderbecke

10. Flashes/In The Dark - Jess Stacy

11. St. Louis Blues - Reginald Forsythe

12. Buss Robinson - Pete Johnson

13. Tiger Rag - Art Tatum

14. I Ain't Got Nobody - Earl Hines

15. Jab Blues - Jabo Williams

16. Farish Street Jive - Little Brother Montgomery

17. Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport

18. Hog-Maw Stomp - Fats Waller

19. Bonus Track - Piano Wizards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars SELECTION COULD HAVE BEEN BETTERED, February 12, 2011

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Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Piano Wizards (Audio CD)

This is a bit of a disappointment, first because it contains only 18 tracks, and secondly because the net could have been cast wider to bring in more obscure but no less meritorious pieces. Since one of the stated goals of Memphis Archives is "to preserve our rich American musical heritage" one is entitled to assume that this would have been the basis of the compilation. But it's the case that many of these recordings have been reissued in both LP and CD format many times, "In A Mist" in particular. Be warned also that Jess Stacy's performance of "Flashes/In the Dark", which is a single performance, has been incremented on the CD, thereby throwing out every subsequent track, and misleading Amazon into showing 19 tracks.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Players, Tame Results, June 26, 2002

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J. C Clark "eanna" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Piano Wizards (Audio CD)

Nothing wrong here, but it just doesn't add up to much. Lots of famous pianists who apparently had some off days, and a few minor figures I've not heard before. And including some unknown pieces here which deserve to remain unknown. Old recordings, with lots of surface noise; they just amble along until they're done. Not much fire, not much tension, not much pungency. Pleasant background music, but not really listenable. I was hoping to find some buried treasures, but mostly found sand. And if Track 11 (rather than 12) is St. Louis Blues, it is the most personal interpretation I've ever heard.