Artist: Michael Kaeshammer
Album: No Strings Attached
Genre: Stride, Boogie-Woogie
Label: Alma Records
Released: 2000
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Snow at Lake Simcoe (Kaeshammer-Pigat) - 5:19
- On a Saturday Night (Kaeshammer-Graham) - 4:18
- Kaes Closed (Kaeshammer) - 2:56
- Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) - 3:29
- Fish This Week, But Next Week Chitlins (McCann) - 3:31
- West Broadway (Kaeshammer) - 4:56
- Drown in My Own Tears (Glover) - 5:36
- Nora's Boogie (Kaeshammer) - 5:06
- I Mean You (Monk-Hawkins) - 4:08
- Boogie Woogie Stomp (Ammons) - 5:40
- On a Rainy Day (Kaeshammer) - 3:37
- Dusty's Blues (Duskin) - 6:08
- Mose (Kaeshammer-Graham) - 3:00
- Portly Pear (Breit) - 1:52
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The German-born pianist is clearly a keen student of piano history as well as a remarkably promising synthesist of keyboard styles. In seven of his own compositions and as many lovingly chosen covers, he pays tribute on his third album to Albert Ammons, Scott Joplin, Thelonious Monk, Mose Allison, Dr. John, Les McCann, and other pianists. Besides support from many veteran Canadian musicians, New Orleans vet Art Neville sits in on the Hammond B-3 on two tracks recorded in the Crescent City. They even give that old chestnut "Drown in My Own Tears" a new, all-keyboard sound.
Review by Mark Allan