Various Artists

INCLUDES 9 BONUS TRACKS

The “Various Artists” on this album read like the history of jazz piano: Willie “The Lion” Smith, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Taylor and Charles Bell. The occasion was a piano workshop on a Sunday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival in 1965, obviously a time when giants still walked the earth. The original album contains only ten tunes. This CD reissue contains all 19 performances, newly remixed from the original three-track masters, adding new material from Smith, Williams, Taylor and Bell. The concert is now presented in the order in which it was performed.

TRACKS:

01. Somehow - Earl Hines
02. Miss D.D.*
03. Take The A Train *
04. Contrary Motion
05. Bluesette
06. Biddy’s Beat
07. Sweet Lorraine
08. House Of Lords
08. Duke Ellington speaks *
10. The Second Portrait Of The Lion
11. Whisper Not
12. 45 degree Angle
13. Joycie
14. Blue Skies *
15. Medley*:
a). Just One Of Those Things b.) Tea For Two c.) Some Of These Days d) After You’ve Gone
16. I’ll Remember April*
17. ‘Round Midnight
18. Rosetta