The Story
(2-CD set) This reissue features the powers of four master pianists, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Don Ewell, Claude Hopkins and Sir Charles Thompson. On 10 tracks recorded in Toronto in 1967, Smith and Ewell perform as a duo. Hopkins performs solo in the style of the Harlem pianists of the 1920s on 8 tracks recorded in 1972, while Hopkins performs solo on 6 tracks from 1984.
Tracklist:
- I've Found a New Baby
- Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid, A
- I Would Do Anything for You
- Some of These Days
- Just You, Just Me
- Everybody Loves My Baby
- Can't We Be Friends
- You Took Advantage of Me
- Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Indiana
- Sugar
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Crazy Fingers
- You Took Advantage of Me
- Late Evening Blues
- Safari Stomp
- New Orleans
- You're Driving Me Crazy
- Memphis Blues
- Who's Sorry Now
- Easy Living
- Robbins Nest
- Memories of You
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- 'Round Midnight
- Happy Boogie
- Portrait of a Piano
- You Go to My Head
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- All the Things You Are
- Samo Blues
UPC: 778132501121
Label: Sackville Records
Release Date: 8.17.04
Format: CD
Description
(2-CD set) This reissue features the powers of four master pianists, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Don Ewell, Claude Hopkins and Sir Charles Thompson. On 10 tracks recorded in Toronto in 1967, Smith and Ewell perform as a duo. Hopkins performs solo in the style of the Harlem pianists of the 1920s on 8 tracks recorded in 1972, while Hopkins performs solo on 6 tracks from 1984.
Tracklist:
- I've Found a New Baby
- Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid, A
- I Would Do Anything for You
- Some of These Days
- Just You, Just Me
- Everybody Loves My Baby
- Can't We Be Friends
- You Took Advantage of Me
- Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Indiana
- Sugar
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Crazy Fingers
- You Took Advantage of Me
- Late Evening Blues
- Safari Stomp
- New Orleans
- You're Driving Me Crazy
- Memphis Blues
- Who's Sorry Now
- Easy Living
- Robbins Nest
- Memories of You
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- 'Round Midnight
- Happy Boogie
- Portrait of a Piano
- You Go to My Head
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- All the Things You Are
- Samo Blues
UPC: 778132501121
Label: Sackville Records
Release Date: 8.17.04
Format: CD
