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Neville Dickie "It's one thing for someone to love to listen to `Fats', the Lion, the Lamb, Jelly and other classic pianists; but it's another by a mile for someone to play all those individual styles. Neville Dickie is that kind of pianist, and capable of doing it phenomenally well." Dick Neeld, Jersey Jazz "He is obviously his own man, relaxed and self confident, brash and sensitive at once. Neville Dickie must be viewed as a major transatlantic contender for the heavyweight title of stridedom." William J Schafer, Mississippi Rag "When Mr Dickie plays such Ammons pieces as `Boogie Woogie Stomp' or `Shout For Joy', he projects an Ammons flair with a virtuosity and sensitivity that has been matched only by Mr Ammons himself." John Wilson, New York Times Neville Dickie's devastatingly accurate left hand shows why, at any Stride convention, he'll have a place reserved at the top table." John Featherstone, Storeyville "He has a left hand that for sheer speed and total accuracy will take your breath away, especially if you've tried to play Stride and found out just how damn difficult it is to do properly." David Stevens, Jazz Action, Australia "To sit as part of an unsuspecting audience. .to see this man walk onto the stage and go straight into `Harlem Strut' with all the verve, trickery and swing of an original James P Johnson performance is a truely breathtaking experience. Neville is in the tradition of gentle giants of the keyboard." Tony Betts, The Jazz Rag 
"Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic for his brilliant Waller style playing, Neville is also a Boogie and Ragtime exponent, but Stride remains his forte and he holds the band together masterfully." Eddie Cook, Jazz Journal International "The greatest pianist in the Stride and Ragtime idiom in the country. .No better man to illustrate Waller's style with that rumbling left hand providing counter-melodies to the more florid improvisations from the right. Dickie, in fact, is something of a National treasure." Peter Hepple, The Stage and Television Today "Neville Dickie, one of the best practitioners of the art." Peter Silvester, author of `A Left Hand Like God' "Neville Dickie, one of the few piano players extant who could do the material justice, Neville immersed himself in and adapted the tunes to his own sterling mode of pianistry, and produced an authentic reinterpretation of stuff that hasn't been heard live for decades. Perhaps a new term is needed to cover all this kind of playing. How about `Two-fisted'? Come to think of it, how about `MARVELLOUS'?" Dick Hyman, World renowned Jazz Pianist and composer "The best at Striding around the park & the best left hand I've ever bitten & chewed!" JAZZ The Poodle Click here to visit the Neville Dickie web site. |
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