Art Hodes: I Remember Bessie - COMPACT DISCS

Title: I Remember Bessie
Artist: Art Hodes
Label: Delmark
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 038153025427
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2013-06-18
Number of Discs: 1

The second installment of Art Hodes' recordings for the Euphonic label this contains another hour of inspired piano solos from the legend who's been described as a blues drenched jazz pianist. Hodes (1904-93) was active in the '20s so this is music played by a guy who was there when Bessie Smith was alive and recording. On this 1976 session he pays tribute to the great blues vocalist Bessie Smith. Contains the 12 songs from the original LP plus unissued tracks including St. Louis Blues After You've Gone Cakewalkin' Babies from Home & Pallet on the Floor.

Tracks:
1.1 Baby Won't You Please Come Home
1.2 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1.3 You've Got to Give Me Some
1.4 Yonder Comes the Blues
1.5 Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
1.6 Back Water Blues
1.7 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
1.8 At a Georgia Camp Meeting
1.9 You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
1.10 Slow and Easy Man
1.11 Yellow Dog Blues
1.12 A Good Man Is Hard to Find
1.13 St. Louis Blues
1.14 Mayor Calling
1.15 After You've Gone
1.16 Cake Walkin' Babies from Home [Alternate] [Alternate Take]
1.17 Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You