Cat and Mouse - George Winston

A piece in an older jazz piano style called stride piano. Stride piano basically means that the left hand strides between a bass and a chord while the right hand plays the improvisation. Stride piano was most predominantly played from the early 1920s to the early 1940s. My two main influences for stride piano have been: Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943), who also in 1929 composed the standards Honeysuckle Rose and Aint Misbehavin, the latter which was the title of the Broadway play in the 1980s about Fats Wallers music; and also the late Teddy Wilson (1912-1986), who was best known for playing with the Benny Goodman Trio & Quartet in the late 1930s, and for backing up singer Billie Holiday on some of her first recordings in the 1930s.

In this piece the left hand is the cat and the right hand is the mouse. The last part of the song is an excerpt from Fats Wallers 1929 composition Handful of Keys. I have not yet recorded this on CD.

George Winston performing Cat and Mouse. ©1996 Dancing Cat Productions, Inc.

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Music

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• cat and mouse
• instrumental piano
• george winston
• stride piano
• fats
• waller
• thomas
• solo
• piano
• cover
• dancing
• cat
• unreleased

[daisyhalo]

love his songs just amazing

[abiggerexplosion]

It's like the music to a factory in a really early Micky Mouse cartoon. Cool

[Angelicylime]

is there a version of him just playing? cause his talking muted out the music D:

[Pommbaer84]

ok i'm going to get such a beard and improve my piano skills =)

[christilbro]

Very cool! ♥♥♥♥♥

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥

[Albertalice1]

Really a super performance. Great, absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[stylecitymusic]

I love this one... very cool... nice ending.

[thuffner]

WOW...looks fun to play!