Track Listings (21) - Disc #1| All Artists: Wally Rose Title: Whippin' the Keys Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Delmark Release Date: 4/22/2008 Genres: Jazz, Pop Style: Traditional Jazz & Ragtime Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 038153024826 |
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 | Wally Rose Whippin' the Keys Genres: Jazz, Pop
Pianist Wally Rose was the original piano player in Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band, the band that started the Traditional Jazz revival of the 1940s and '50s. He also played with Bob Scobey in 1950-51, Turk Murphy in 1952... more » |
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Album Description Pianist Wally Rose was the original piano player in Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band, the band that started the Traditional Jazz revival of the 1940s and '50s. He also played with Bob Scobey in 1950-51, Turk Murphy in 1952-54 and spent many years as soloist in San Francisco. In 1953 Rose recorded two influential solo LPs: Ragtime Classics and Ragtime Piano Masterpieces. Rose remained active throughout the '70s and '80s. Whippin' The Keys was recorded at two sessions in 1968 and 1971. The twenty solo ragtime selections were originally issued on two Blackbird LPs (Rose on Piano, Blackbird 12007 and Whippin' The Keys, Blackbird 12010). They are reissued here for the first time. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsWally Rose - Master of the Ragtime Piano Jerry Hutchison | Arizona | 03/03/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "Wally Rose will go down in the history of Ragtime piano as the person who was responsible for re-igniting the popularity of this style of music. He first recorded back in the 1940's, and was still playing into the late 90's. When you listen to his recordings you hear the songs played the way they were supposed to be: light handed, melodic, joyful, & entertaining, not heavy handed, rushed and tinny, like so many of the ones who tried to imitate. I had the pleasure of meeting him when he was with the Turk Murphy band, and watching him play one could see how he was so absorbed into the music and was "one with the piano". The music just seemed to flow thru him to the keyboard. Do yourself a favor and listen to this CD, then get every CD you can find of his, from the early days with Lu Watters, then Bob Scoby, Turk Murphy, and his solos. There is none better, or even close."
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