Boogie Woogie Piano Stylings - Art Simmons

 

Foster's Blues

Boogie Woogie

Piano Stylings

Art Simmons

Mercury Wing MGW 12150

From the back cover: Like Hildegarde of Jane Morgan, Art Simmons had to spend 10 years transplanted in Paris, before his musicianship cracked thru the charmed star circle in America. Simmons is a 30-ish American Negro pianist, whose first etching for Wing comes just a decade since he left the Forty Nine.

And Art impressed upon Wing, that he doesn't want to take sole credit for this easy-to-listen-to-or-dance-to piano album. He did a low Continental bow in the direction of Maurice Vander, a French piano associate who helps bring out the full effect from another keyboard; and twin drummers – Kenny Clarke, another transplanted Yank and jazz immortal; and Gallic counterpart Baptist Reilles, and never overlooking Emmanuel Soudieux, bass.

St. Louis Blues Boogie

Deho Boogie

Forster's Blues

Ham Boogie

Boogie-Woogie Prayer

Cow Cow Boogie

Pine Top's Boogie

Night Train

Undecided Boogie

After Hours

An Answer To My Prayer