Jazz & Blues
Laughing at Life, by Kansas City Five, a jazz ensemble with members from the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s featuring trumpeter Buck Clayton, drummer Jo Jones, bassist Walter Page, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green and Eddie Durham's electric guitar, and later on Lester Young.
How Long Blues is one of the first blues tunes my teacher Caroline Dahl taught me, and here I am doing a vocal rendition and piano accompaniment, after listening to a Leroy Carr recording. Leroy Carr (1905-1935), an influential American blues singer, pianist, and composer of songs.
Yancey Special by Jimmy Yancey (1898-1951), a veteran blues and boogie-woogie pianist, influential on the younger Chicago players of the late thirties. Although he wrote and performed compositions in a variety of keys, he ended every tune in E flat.
Hammy's Boogie is one of the 1st boogie-woogie tunes I ever learned after hearing it played by Brendan Kavanagh (Dr K) on YouTube, he learned it from his teacher William "Hammy" Howell (1954–1999) a British piano and keyboard blues and boogie-woogie player, who played for the band The Darts.