Atlantic Jazz Keyboards CD

The opening track features Jimmy Yancey's sparkling boogie piano, and continues through several styles from Erroll Garner's flashy solos through Thelonious Monk's amazing bop improvisations, John Lewis' sedate, sophisticated phrases, Lennie Tristano's intricate material, and bluesier fare from Ray Charles, Junior Mance, and Les McCann. Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea take more adventurous directions, while The Mitchell-Ruff duo with drummer Charlie Smith falls somewhere in the center. The set's compositional variety and artist lineup is impressive; while none of these tracks qualify as particularly rare or obscure, they show the wealth of keyboard talent once on the Atlantic roster.

1 How Long Blues (Leroy Carr) - Jimmy Yancey 2:46
2 The Way You Look Tonight (Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern) - Erroll Garner 3:10
3 Evidence - Art Blakey / Thelonious Monk 6:42
4 Little Girl Blue (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers) - John Lewis 4:30
5 C Minor Complex- Lennie Tristano 5:47
6 The Genius After Hours- Ray Charles 5:22
7 Rockin' Chair (Hoagy Carmichael) - Ray Bryant 4:32
8 Sweet Georgia Brown (Ben Bernie / Kenneth Casey / Maceo Pinkard) - Junior Mance 5:40
9 The Catbird Seat - Charlie Smith / The Mitchell-Ruff Trio 7:34
10 Doin' That Thing (Leroy Vinnegar) - Les McCann 8:31
11 My One and Only Love (Robert Mellin / Guy Wood) - Joe Zawinul 3:50
12 Ev'rything I Love (Cole Porter) - Keith Jarrett 4:30
13 Straight up and Down- Chick Corea 12:22

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