Texas Barrelhouse Blues Piano - The Ma Grinder (by Robert Shaw)
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2015
- Robert Shaw's 'The Ma Grinder' just may be Texas Barrelhouse at its best. Shaw, and his fellow west Texas pianists, are known as the "Santa Fe Group" because they would hop the Santa Fe Train to get from gig to gig. And by gig, I mean barrelhouse, lumber camp, mill towns, etc.
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Many thanks to Ethan for bringing us such an impeccable rendering of this iconic number, once the calling-card piece of the Santa Fe group and now sadly forgotten by most of humanity. This eclectic number surely defies classification by genre. I think you will find that Shaw made a famous recording of this piece, but he wasn't its composer.
Thanks for the comment. It is such a dynamic number! Though Shaw was not the originator, he certainly added his own ideas and can be credited as one of the developers of this tune.
Great tune, great rendition, great piano, great shooting angle...
Your the best. A style that’s unique, a real stand out. Not enough people have found you yet. I bought your CD.
Love it - All the changes - wonderful
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I see you're even using Shaw's left hand chop method for the appropriate passages. Nice work!
This piece was composed by a number of players, each contributing their own sections, and one of the composers was a pianist known as Peg Leg Will, who had injured his left hand while jumping off a freight train and had had to develop this method of playing to compensate, and so the parts composed by this individual are supposed to be played in his style. Kudos to Ethan for doing so.
now real pie anna playing
Bianca Thornton Dead right! What pieannas were invented for! Creating happiness,Then serious types discovered them and thought they were more important!
I'm curious to know what piano this is
To be honest, I can't even remember! I don't miss it 😂