Barrelhouse piano

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Barrelhouse Piano (also gut bucket ) is the name for a simple piano style that originated in the USA around the mid-19th century when blues musicians began to transfer their music from the guitar to the piano.

This often happened in cheap pubs where the schnapps was poured directly from barrels. In such an environment the pianist had to play very loudly to be heard at all. The barrel house piano was played without a pedal . Each hand is rhythmically independent of the other; the left hand plays the beat , the right hand the melody.

The style of the barrelhouse piano is considered to be the forerunner of boogie-woogie and stands in the development of American music in contrast to the later ragtime , in which European traditions flowed to a far greater extent. From the Barrelhouse Piano went Barrelhouse Jazz forth, a forerunner of the Chicago Jazz .

Well-known representatives of the style are u. a. Josua Altheimer , Cow Cow Davenport , Champion Jack Dupree , Will Ezell , Frank Melrose , Little Brother Montgomery , Edwin Pickens , Roosevelt Sykes , Washboard Sam , Charlie Spand , Thomas A. Dorsey , Speckled Red , Charley Taylor , Ivy Joe White , Peetie Wheatstraw , James "Boodle-It" Wiggins and George Zack . Later musicians like Fats Domino or Big Maceo Merriweather adapted elements of the barrel house.

Discographic notes

  • Barrelhouse Blues 1927-1936 (Yazoo, ed. 1972), with Bob Call, Barrelhouse Welsh, Joe Dean, George Noble, Lonnie Johnson , Montana Taylor , Little Brother Montgomery, Charley Taylor, Cow Cow Davenport, Jabo Williams , Jesse James, Raymond Barrow, Will Ezell
  • Barrelhouse Piano (Jazz Piano), with Cow Cow Davenport, Henry Brown, Montana Taylor , Romeo Nelson , Speckled Red
  • Leothus Lee Green : Blues and Barrelhouse Piano 1929-1937 (Earl Archives, ed. 1982)
  • Robert Shaw: Texas Barrelhouse Piano ( Arhoolie Records )
  • Wesley Wallace, Henry Brown: St. Louis Barrelhouse Piano 1929-1934: The Complete Recorded Works of Wesley Wallace, Henry Brown & Associates ( Document Records , ed. 1992)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lenard C. Bowie: African American Musical Heritage: An Appreciation , 2012, p. 213
  2. ↑ a b c d Jürgen Wölfer Lexicon of Jazz . 2nd edition Hannibal Verlag, St. Andrä 1999, p. 40
  3. ^ A b John S. Davis: Historical Dictionary of Jazz . 2012, p. 36
  4. ↑ Nick Talevski: Rock Obituaries - Knocking On Heaven's Door . 2010, p. 146
  5. ^ David Honeyboy Edwards: The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman . 2000
  6. ^ Paul Oliver: Conversation with the Blues . 1995, p. 197
  7. ^ Zell Miller: They Heard Georgia Singing . 1996, page 95.
  8. ^ John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax , Harold William Thompson: American Ballads and Folk Songs , 1934, 93
  9. ^ Gérard Herzhaft: Encyclopedia of the Blues . 1992, p. 18.

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