Three Stride Masters | Dick Wellstood, Ralph Sutton, Don Ewell playing Stride Piano
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Dick Wellstood and Kenny Davern perform a hot stride piece "Fast as a Bastard" from their album "Dick Wellstood and his Famous Orchestra Featuring Kenny Davern." The title to this piece accurately describes ever facet of it.
Ralph Sutton playing a jazz standard "Christopher Columbus" in a swinging stride style. I picked this recording up from my good friend, Vincent Johnson, and I do not know where or when this was recorded, nevertheless, a stellar performance.
Finally, Don Ewell performing the ever-famous "Sweet Georgia Brown" in a rollicking pseudo-Jelly Roll Morton/Stride style that has yet to be matched by any other performer. Ewell, thought probably the least known of this trio, was absolutely one of the most inventive, witty, and down right facemelting stride players for decades in the 20th century. My good friend, Max Keenlyside provided this recording, as well as the photos of the piano with the peculiar rounded black keys. Thank you Max!
I post this video in tribute to the men, who truly kept this unique music alive.
There's an enchanting element to Ewell's play.
@jwellstood Well I actually did not know him. I was born in 1993, a few years after he passed. However, I greatly admire the man and I would have loved to meet him, for sure. I am absolutely a fan!
@PALINDUP Thank you for the nice comments! Dick, Ralph, and Don are all heros of mine. I'm doing a seminar on the three of them at the West Coast Ragtime Festival this November, and if you've got any more neat stories about any of them, feel free to share! Thanks again. Will.
Yeaaaaahhhhhhh
very nice recording of Sweet Georgia Brown... I especially like the quote of "Yes, We Have No Bananas"!
That descending figure sounds JUST like James P. Johnson... he obviously studied the recordings very closely to get the touch right!
Wow!
I heard one of his long plaiyng records many years ago and ralph is known as thebest interprete of Fats Waller and he sure is !!
@guarrho yes it is!
My Dad claims they probably re-titled it for obvious humorous purposes. I trust what my Dad says... he was a good friend of both Mr. Wellstood and Mr. Davern and recorded with them numerous times.
I postulate that it also might have been done to avoid paying royalties as well, although this makes less sense... since practically every other tune on the album has its correct title.
fast as a bastard? it's jubilee stomp by duke ellington
Of course, Dick himself told me bout that about 1981 in Vienna during a gig in Jazzland.
@alehage Actually, he recorded it several times! The CDs "Live at Hanratty's" and "Live at the Sticky Wicket" include it (I recommend both CDs greatly). And Believe it or not, there is a video of him playing it here on youtube! Just type in Dick Wellstood Ain't Misbehavin" or something to that effect, and it should pop up. Best, Will
So Great!!! Do you nkow where I could find Wellstood playing "Aint Misbehavin"??
Thanks so much!!
@ragtimemax Hehehe Max. I'll include that in the write-up. My apologies. haha. Thank you, by the way!
I am so happy.. sweet georgia brown stride. finally. I am a music student and I wanted to learn this piece with my teacher... turns out, he has rather superficial skills when it somes to stirde people and even claims it is "okay" and that " you cannot play all jazz styles properly". :/:/:/:/
I find it kinda embarassing you can educate yourself better on youtube about jazz piano than at my university. really a shame.
+ichabe dichlieb so thank you so much the upload!! :D
@jwellstood Hi! do any of your Dad's home-made recordings of old stride pianists still survive? He supposedly made recordings of Willie Gant, and possibly Q. Roscoe Snowden. My dad is Dan Barrett, and he is not sure what happened to the stuff after your dad passed away.
Everybody says he was a great guy and I would have gotten along real well with him. I believe this because he was such a great pianist on the recordings, and also because he wrote such great liner notes!
sheer speed is boring , even irritating ! !
That poor piano . . . it looks 1:00 like it was rode hard, and put away wet. - j q t -