Various Artists - Paramount Piano Blues 3 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With Jabo Williams, Freddie Brown, Charley Taylor+, 20 cuts from 1927-1932.

This sixth instalment in Christopher Guild's survey of the piano music of Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) on Toccata Classics concentrates on works from the beginning of his career, most of it written after his decisive encounter with the music of Busoni. Although Stevenson had not yet moved to Scotland, the influence of Scottish folksong can be heard in some of these pieces, all of which are cast in the lyrical counterpoint that was a hallmark of Stevenson's mature style.

Everybody had their own style, Jelly Roll Morton said of blues and jazz piano players. This collection explores the music of famous and less well-known blues pianists in the 1920s Inchclassic bluesInch era and in the 1930s, when the distinctive boogie-woogie style of piano playing began to emerge.