Lance Anderson - Shorthanded

Styles : Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie
Released : 2001
Lable : Make It Real Records

01 - Shorthanded Stomp
02 - Mac's Bounce
03 - Freedom's Lament
04 - Ain't Gonna Leave
05 - Rockin' Pneumonia
06 - Blue Devil
07 - Count Me In Stride
08 - OP's Boogie
09 - New Orleans Blues
10 - The Mess Around
11 - Spann's Boogie
12 - Louisiana Alibi
13 - Lady Pete
14 - Mambo Jambo
15 - Make It Real Mambo
16 - Tipitina
17 - Yancey special
18 - C Roll Blues
19 - Been a Long Day Blues

A superbly recorded collection of Blues, Boogies and stomps for solo piano by a Canadian master of the N'Orleans style.
A number of original compositions and five standards all based in the Blues tradition. Some, like Tipitina, Louisiana Alibi, Mac's Bounce and Rockin' Pneumonia are in the N'Orleans R&B style made famous by James Booker, Professor Longhair, Huey Piano Smith and Dr. John. A few are outright boogies like O.P.s Boogie, the Mess Around and Spann's Boogie and yet others are hard to classify, gospel-tinged stomps like Shorthanded Stomp, Count Me In Stride and the C Roll Blues. There is also Lady Pete a musical jazz tribute to Oscar Peterson. Shorthanded is two-fisted piano playing.