My latest article for The Island Packet newspaper on Hilton Head Island, SC, is about pianist Mark Shane:
If you play pool, do it like Minnesota Fats. If you say, “Hey, hey, hey,†do it like Fat Albert. And if you play stride piano, you’d best do it like Fats Waller.
Fans of the stride piano — and of Waller’s infectious music — are in for a rare treat when pianist Mark Shane comes to the Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island to pay tribute to Waller.
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