Dick Wellstood: Live at the Sticky Wicket

Dick Wellstood: Solo Piano

This double CD is foot-stomping Dick Wellstood, live and in person, preserving all of the atmosphere and bantering with an audience of jazzers, who had braved the elements to hear one of the piano masters at work and at play, on a November night in 1986 at the Sticky Wicket in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Dick Wellstood: Live at the Sticky Wicket: Tied for second among Critics Choices for 1997 in the February 1998 issue of Jazz Journal Internation; selected by Owen Cordle as a Critics' Pick for 1997 in the March 1998 issue of JazzTimes; selected by John Norris as a 1997 Writers' Choice in the January/February 1998 issue of Coda. Selected by John Sutherland and Benjamin Franklin V as a Writer's Choice for 1998 in the January/February 1999 issue of Coda. Five stars, John McDonoughm Down Beat, February, 1999

Selections:
Disc 1

Lullaby of Birdland
How About You?
If Dreams Come True
St. James Infirmary
Birmingham Breakdown
Ain't Misbehavin'
Snowy Morning Blues/Carolina Shout
There Is No Greater Love
Fidgety Feet
The Entertainer
Handful of Keys
You Go to My Head
I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling/Zonky
Ain'tcha Got Music?/Old Fashioned Love
Keep Off the Grass

Disc 2

Ring Dem Bells/Sophisticated Lady/Jumpin' Punkins
Someone To Watch Over Me/How Long Has This Been Going On?/Liza
Maple Leaf Rag
Russian Rag
Caravan
Limehouse Blues
Diane (I'm in Heaven When I See You Smile)
Giant Steps
What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?/Groovin' High
The Pearls
Like Someone in Love
Shoeshine Boy
Lulu's Back in Town
Prelude to a Kiss/Pitter Panther Patter
My Melancholy Baby
Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
March of the Musketeers