Topic: Piano Instrumentals

[Thomas8]

Wow Arnold Wiley was a MONSTER player! here's one unexpectedly from Walter Davis, sounds as if he couldn't be bothered singing and just played the accompaniment, Key of Ab

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Thanks for all of the piano instrumentals that have been posted. If we limit ourselves to no more than two tunes per post, it will leave more tunes for other people to post. Thanks for your consideration.
All best,
Johnm

[Blues Vintage]

Yes, and please note the key of the tune if you know it. Thanks you, Harry.

[Blues Vintage]

Pete Johnson - Dive Bomber,  Key of C

[Johnm]

Hi Thomas,
I reckon that Walter Davis cut is from a much later Walter Davis than the one who recorded with Big Joe Williams and Henry Townsend. It looks like it's taken from a tribute album to the earlier Walter Davis. This one recorded for Blue Note, with an album in 1960, and was a Jazz pianist, specializing in Bop and Hard Bop. This player is often identified as Walter Davis, Jr. He died in 1990.
All best,
Johnm

[Blues Vintage]

Hi Thomas,
I reckon that Walter Davis cut is from a much later Walter Davis than the one who recorded with Big Joe Williams and Henry Townsend. It looks like it's taken from a tribute album to the earlier Walter Davis. This one recorded for Blue Note, with an album in 1960, and was a Jazz pianist, specializing in Bop and Hard Bop. This player is often identified as Walter Davis, Jr. He died in 1990.
All best,
Johnm

Youtube video just has the wrong picture on the screen. I think this is Walter Davis (1911-1963). You can find the song on Document Vol. 6.

[Johnm]

Good catch, Harry. That video won't play here, so I couldn't listen to it.

[Thomas8]

I'm sad you underestimate my ears that much John, I know what WD sounds like.

[Prof Scratchy]

Biddle Street Blues certainly sounds like the original Walter Davis to me! I didn’t know there was another, later one. One lives and learns!

[Johnm]

I'm sorry, Thomas. I couldn't listen myself, so I made an incorrect assumption based on the photo that accompanied the video, which won't play here in the States. And if I thought more about it, I'd have realized it was a pretty implausible project for Walter Davis, Jr. to have undertaken. Mea culpa.

[Stuart]

This one appears to be accessible here in the U.S.:

[Johnm]

Thanks, Stuart, and the picture's not misleading!
All best,
Johnm

[eric]

Here's another Montana Taylor

[Thomas8]

"ere's a 'nother one from the be-bop maestro, key of G this time. I find this one much more compelling personally. Sounds more like a instrumental and less like an accompaniment, and the left hand moves along nicely. 

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's another one from the St. Louis pianist Henry Brown--"Deep Morgan Blues", in F. I love how relaxed his time was.



All best,
Johnm