Jazz Piano (Judy Carmichael album)





Two-Handed Stride is the GRAMMY®-nominated first album of pianist Judy Carmichael on the Progressive label.

History
Jazz Piano(1983) is Judy Carmichael's second recording, also on the Progressive label. A masterful album of unaccompanied stride piano solos, Carmichael performs standards from the 1920's and the 1930's by pianists and composers like Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, James P. Johnson, and Clarence Williams.

Carmichael demonstrates her mastery of stride and swing and reinforces her arrival as one of a handful of pianists to preserve stride and ragtime, possibly the only one to debut and so strongly during the latter 20th century.

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This album is all but impossible to find. You can buy the album here (Proceeds help continue the JazzSkool project).

Top songs featured on include "Rosetta," "Alligator Crawl," "Lady Be Good," "Carolina Shout" and "Nagasaki."

1 Christopher Columbus, Chu Berry/ Andy Razaf

2 Viper's Drag, Fats Waller

3 Ja Da, Bob Carleton, 1918

4 Honeysuckle Rose, Andy Razaf / Fats Waller

5 Ain't Misbehavin', Andy Razaf / Fats Waller

6 Handful of Keys, Fats Waller

7 I Ain't Got Nobody, Spencer Williams

8 (I Would Do) Anything for You, Ruby Braff and Ralph Sutton

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A group of legendary Count Basie Orchestra sidemen accompanied Ms. Carmichael for this album: