"Dinah" performed by Nick Gill and The Oxford Classic Jazz Trio

A stonking performance of a jazz classic in a noisy restaurant. Note the influence of Willie "The Lion" Smith in the second piano chorus.

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Music

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• Nick Gill
• Oxford Classic Jazz
• Debbie Arthurs
• Norman Field
• Nicholas Gill
• Stride Piano
• Willie the Lion Smith
• Vintage Jazz
• 1920s Jazz
• Traditional Jazz

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I like the clocks and The Lion's influence. Wait a second, are you sure that was The Lion? Because those riffs sound like Fats riffs from his Handful of Keys at the end. Though I do hear The Lion's influence at 2: 41 where it sounds similar to his Rippling Water.

I guess he starts at Fats then The Lion then back to Fats at 3:06 .

[Oxfordclassicjazz]

Thanks for that very jazz literate comment...Hopefully the ideas I've derived from the great Harlem stride players have been internalised in a sort of creative stew and get thrown up in a sort of chaotic order in the performance situation...I was quite pleased with the relaxed swing in the playing here - makes me feel I'm getting somewhere with this fiendishly difficult style.  Swing's the thing! Keep listening to the Lion and Co. Cheers Nick

[keanghiero]

Great Piece. very nice

5*

all the best

Kean

[brychar66]

Great performance in an admittedly noisy but authentic location. More!

[Konwajiro]

Bravoooooooooooo! If anyone out there knows a finer Dinah than this one, show her to me. A mighty effort indeed to focus the attention of a very rowdy audience in one of the finer diners in Oxfordshire.