Dink Johnson - Mr. Johnson Signing Off (CD)

Dink Johnson was born in New Orleans around 1880, and was the younger brother of Bill Johnson, King Oliver's great bass player. Dink played a swinging, stomping, Jelly-like piano style. He had a repertoire of tunes as unique as his style, containing many tunes of his own and other tunes long forgotten. Dink had a rollicking, contagious sense of humor which comes through on these recordings. The weirdest thing he ever did by far is, "The Pidgeon Walk." at best, the tune was just another dance tune that never got off the ground but at the hands of Dink it becomes a masterpiece of something or another! It is indeed pathetic that Dink could die and leave so little in reserve for those who belatedly came to appreciate his work.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Kansas City Stomp
2. Cannon Ball Rag
3. When the Sun Goes Down
4. Twelfth Street Rag
5. Pidgeon Walk
6. Dink's Blues
7. Las Vegas Stomp
8. Original Jelly Roll Blues
9. Exactly Like You
10. Stomp de Lowdown
11. Four or Five Times
12. Lazy Blues
13. Lady Be Good
14. Frog-I-More Rag
15. Clementine
16. Dink's Last Blues
17. That Indian Rag
18. Grace and Beauty
19. At the Jazz Band Ball
20. Wolverine Blues