Spike Wilner - Live At Smalls - Import Japan Ver CD

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Spike Wilner

Description:

He is an accomplished arranger, organizer, and producer, and is so well versed in the history of jazz piano that he published a book titled "The Lion Of The Piano: 9 Compostions by Willie The Lion Smith," named after Willie The Lion Smith, a Harlem School piano virtuoso who influenced a young Duke Ellington. He is so well versed in the history of jazz piano that he published a book titled "The Lion Of The Piano: 9 Compostions by Willie The Lion Smith" (a Harlem piano hero who influenced the young Duke Ellington), and is of course a pianist of the highest level of skill. (Excerpt from Kazunori Harada's liner notes)

Tracklisting:

1.LULLABY OF THE LEAVES (Bernice Petkere)
2.ALL TOO SOON (Duke Ellington)
3.WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS (Ted Koehler)
4.BESS, YOU IS MY WOMAN NOW (George Gershwin)
5.GONE WITH THE WIND (Allie Wrubel)
6.I CAN'T GET STARTED (Vernon Duke)
7.ELITE SYNCOPATIONS (Scott Joplin)
8.ECHOES OF SPRING (Willie "The Lion" Smith)
9.SNOWY MORNING BLUES (James P. Johnson)
10.POOR BUTTERFLY (Raymond Hubbell)
11.I HADN'T ANYONE TILL YOU (Ray Noble)
12.TEA FOR TWO (Vincent Youmans)
13.TWO SLEEPY PEOPLE (Hoagy Carmichael)
14.BODHISATTVA BLUES (Spike Wilner)