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James Booker - Blues & Ragtime From New Orleans
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:42
Size: 102.4 MB
Styles: New Orleans jazz-blues piano
Year: 1976/2011
Art: Front
[3:00] 1. Desitively Bannaroo / Right Place, Wrong Time
[3:30] 2. Tico Tico
[2:40] 3. Wake Up Mr. Moon Man
[4:47] 4. Save Your Love / Lonely Avenue
[5:40] 5. All By Myself / I'm In Love Again / Four Winds / Such A Wonderful Feeling
[6:26] 6. People Get Ready
[4:16] 7. Besame Mucho / Until The Real Thing Comes Along
[6:43] 8. Love Monkey / Feel So Bad
[4:17] 9. Ora
[3:18] 10. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Booker's unique style combined rhythm and blues with jazz standards. Musician Dr. John described Booker as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.
Booker was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers, both of whom played the piano. He spent most of his childhood on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where his father pastored a church. Booker received a saxophone as a gift from his mother, but he demonstrated a stronger interest in the keyboard. He first played organ in his father's churches.
After returning to New Orleans in his early adolescence, Booker attended the Xavier Academy Preparatory School. He learned some elements of his keyboard style from Tuts Washington and Edward Frank.[2] Booker was highly skilled in classical music and played Bach and Chopin, among other composers. He also mastered and memorized solos by Erroll Garner, and Liberace. His thorough background in piano literature may have enabled his original and virtuosic interpretations of jazz and other popular music. These performances combined elements of stride, blues, gospel and Latin piano styles. ~partial bio from Wikipedia
Blues & Ragtime From New Orleans
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