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Summary: where yah at Gang?
Comment: Best fess recording Ive heard! Strongly suggested. Always considered myself a guitar aficionado and Gatemouth's runs hereon are sweet but the keyboard work is second to none! This is about the only Piano player that I could listen to repeatedly...and I do! The sound quality is lacking on some of the other discs but not here.
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Summary: One of Fess' Best
Comment: This is one of two of the many Professor Longhair albums out there that is a must own - the other being Crawfish Fiesta. It truly does not get better than this.
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Summary: George Winston's greatest contribution to music
Comment: George Winston, the producer of this CD, was a top seller on Windham Hill records during the 1980s and early '90s. In case you've forgotten Winston (and he was eminently forgettable), he played soft, innocuous cocktail music on the piano which he was pleased to call "jazz," but for some reason unknown to Mankind, one of his idols was Fess Byrd, a.k.a. Professor Longhair, whose style was about as related to George Winston's as Charles Mingus' is to Kenny G.
This was my intoduction to Professor Longhair, and what an introduction it is. The man played the piano as if it were a tuned conga drum; when jazz legend Art Tatum heard him play in the early 1950s, he was mesmerized by his style. No, Fess was no Tatum, not even close, but WOW what a great, asymmetric piano style he had!! Highly recommended.
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Summary: Best of the Fess
Comment: This album is the best by Professor Longhair and The Fess is one of the best. Call his Style what you will: blues boggie woggie, blackability, Blues Gumbo or just plain good the Fes rocks. This album has an intersting history. Recorded by a French label it was over ten years before it was released state-side. This is the only album that The Fess recorded with Clarence Gatemouth Brown on guitar. The album is excellent, production quality is high, backing band is very good, and the Fess is amazing both on the keyes and vocally. If you like blues, piano, Orleans jazz, all the above - buy this album.
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Summary: The best album by Professor Longhair.
Comment: This album is by far the best Professor Longhair album on the market today. This is based on the fact that George Winston and Dancing Cat Records, have put in the time and effort to ensure a A+ recording. There are others version of the same songs out there by this master of the NO piano, however the sonic of them do not compare to this one. Thank you Mr. Winston. You have given this great musican a testiment that is worth it grain in salt.
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