Keyboard Waltzes - Jan August

 

Always

Keyboard Waltzes

Featuring Jan August at The Piano 

Photo by Garrett & Howard

Mercury Records MG 20273

1958

From the back cover: Here, the man who Associated Press once called "the one-man piano duet," Jan August, starts with a waltz, ends with one, and maintains its gentle lilt thought this entire long-playing performance without ever a dull measure. His fingers play with moods that are sentimental yet elegant, rich yet engagingly simple, lilting yet pensive.

America almost missed the wonderful experience of a piano performance by Jan August, Before he turned professional, young Jan was bent on learning to be a cartoonist. He was promising enough to get a job with an advertising agency, but he soon came to believe that while he was adequate enough, he wasn't cut out for any greatness with a pencil. He switched to music, buried himself in a self-education – and suddenly the world was open to him. 

The instinct of the artist, as it almost always does, led Jan August down the right road. Treat yourself to the world's most popular rhythm, the waltz, by the world's most pillar pianist, Jan August.

Missouri Waltz

Three O'Clock In The Morning

Alice Blue Gown

The Band Played On

Always

Beautiful Ohio

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Two Lonely Hearts 

Petite Ballerina

Lovers And Lollipops Theme

Skaters' Waltz

Wunderbar