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Thank you ! I’m back in my mother’s living room hearing her Kathleen Tannyhill Hull playing her baby grand piano. she was born in1903 . I was born in1939. Still play tenor sax but not as well as my mother played piano. Thanks for stirring wonderful memories.
Hey Adam, I found you from old TomBrier duets. Remember what you're giving when you improvise -- you're showing many people who have no idea that such a thing is even possible. I hope children that aspire to musicianship get a taste of this before they "settle for less" and consign themselves to a lifetime of uncreative busywork. Your small channel size is so at odds with your level of skill. I'll enjoy watching it grow. Recommend you take live requests and muck around with styles, and just keep a livestream running while you're practicing. Also how about breaking into singing while you play? I can't imagine it would take you more than 3 months to work up a good singing voice. Break thru the comfort barrier & fly. Just an idea ;)
Live performance 8/13/2023 Timestamps: 0:00:56 - 0:01:21 Original Jelly Roll Blues (Jelly Roll Morton 1915) 0:05:10 - 0:06:22 Pretty Baby (Tony Jackson & Egbert Van Alstyne 1916); Some Sweet Day (Tony Jackson & Abe Olman 1917) 0:11:16 - 0:12:02 Naked Dance (Jelly Roll Morton 1939) [Tony Jackson may have contributed] 0:16:00 - 0:17:19 I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll (Clarence Williams & Spencer Williams 1919) 0:20:17 - 0:21:03 Triangle Jazz Blues (Irwin P Leclere 1917) 0:24:11 - 0:25:02 Bluin' the Blues (Henry W Ragas [Original Dixieland Jazz Band] 1918) 0:27:47 - 0:28:31 I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate [or Sister Kate] (Armand J Piron 1922) 0:31:41 - 0:32:12 Grandpa's Spells (Jelly Roll Morton 1923) 0:35:08 - 0:36:16 Pearls the (Jelly Roll Morton 1924) 0:42:04 - 0:42:53 King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton 1926) 0:46:28 - 0:49:01 Shreveport-Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton 1924) piano roll pb JRM 0:54:41 - 0:55:39 Tin Roof Blues (New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1923) [lyrics: Walter Melrose] 1:01:40 - 1:02:35 Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams 1928); Sugar Blues (Clarence Williams 1919); Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (Louis Alter 1946) 1:07:51 - 1:08:29 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (John Turner Layton Jr 1922) lyrics: Henry Creamer 1:11:57 - 1:12:24 Royal Garden Blues (Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams 1919) 1:16:15 - 1:17:37 Trouble in Mind (Richard M Jones 1924) 1:22:29 - 1:23:43 Sugar Foot Stomp (King Oliver 1926) [aka Dippermouth Blues 1923 sometimes attributed to Louis Armstrong] 1926) 1:27:58 - 1:29:11 When the Saints Go Marching In (James Milton Black & Katherine E Purvis 1896); Down in Jungle Town (Theodore Morse 1906); Oh! Didn't He Ramble (J Rosamond Johnson & James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole 1902); Down by the Riverside (spiritual c1860) [first published 1918]; High Society March [or just High Society] (Porter Steele 1901) 1:34:38 - 1:35:39 Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca 1917 also credited to Original Dixieland Jazz Band members and Jelly Roll Morton)
Great old time music. Thku. [ From an Aussie: Australian] Is this 1800 music of the Cowboy & Indian era. Like you'd here on the tv show: Bonanza! Is the music: Charlie Chaplin, 3 Stooges era, too? You're a great pianist. Thku.
The quick answer would be "no." This is classic jazz of early 1900s New Orleans, Chicago, and New York. The western "saloon" piano sound would have been a slightly earlier era.
