At the Piano

Joe Sullivan - At the Piano

01/01/2044

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All Music Guide Review

This hard-to-find collectors LP from 1977 should greatly interest pre-bop jazz fans lucky enough to run across it. Joe Sullivan was one of the great Chicago jazz pianists, inspired by Earl Hines but distinctive in his own way. Sullivan is heard on ten solos recorded for the Armed Forces in 1944 and on three band numbers from 1951 that were originally broadcast on Voice of America. The solos are well-rounded, not only including a few stomps ("Farewell to Riverside," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "The Bass Romps Away") but more ballads than usual, focusing on Sullivan's underrated lyrical side. The band numbers (two ballads with cornetist Bobby Hackett and drummer George Wettling in a trio and a version of "Tin Roof Blues" with Wettling, cornetist Wild Bill Davison, clarinetist Edmond Hall and trombonist Vic Dickenson) are nice, but the unaccompanied solos are the main reason to search for this album. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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