Ben Sidran - Piano Players Lyrics

They played piano and it went like this
They could swing as sweetly as an angel's kiss
Hearing George Shearing running steady with
Freddy Redd, yes
Talk about piano
Players in the past they really knew how to fly
C one way trip on a magic carpet ride
In the park with Sonny Clark or walking through the dark
With Bud Powell
Won't you listen to them

Walter Bishop, Walter Norris
Walter Davis and wall to wall explores like
Wynton Kelly and ooo crt Tatum
Phinneaus, Thelonious, anyway you rate em

The music that they made it's a live today
Cause when you hear Cecil Taylor you hear Jelly Roll Play
Cnd nearing that clearing you're hearing the real McCoy
Roll em Roy

Horace Silver Horace Parlan
Barry Harris don't you dare forget Red Garland
Herbie Nichols, Harold Mayburn
Flanagan, Elligton, Jay McShann

They burn more brightly rightly today
Because nothing in the world will take your breath away
Like Count Basie Fats Waller Pine Top Errol Garner
Hamp Hawes Norman Simmons Kenny Drew Bobby Timmons
Duke Pearson Duke Jordan Hank Jones still recordin
Oscar got the Grammey, Bill Evans put the whammy on Miles
Put it on Miles, put it on Miles, put it on Miles

Benny Green he's on the scene
Cnd Larry Goldings' holding something mean
Cnd Brad Maldau he got the power
But Dave Hazeltine he's got my mind all

Messed up you guessed up to now
I been back in the past
Cause I believe somehow
Nothing says lovin' like a Gene Harris walking blues
That's some nasty shoes
They got a hall in Paris it's a city block long
Wall to wall pictures
Just picture it gone
That's what we're missing
Every day we don't listen to

Cedar and Ramsey, Michel and chmad
Keith, Chick and Herbie, talking bout God
Willy Pickens, you feel the plot thickens
Tommy Flanagan, feel like a man again
Les McCann got the great left hand
Elmo Hope had the real good dope
Now silken soul, that's Nat King Cole
Taking the chance with Junior Mance
Taking a page from Mose..and close

Where's Lenny Tristano?