Hey folks, listen between 0:58 and 1:12, Luckey is really swinging like hell! He's swinging HARD, man!!! Thanks again for the post of this HOT piano solo!
@jazzgirl1920s There's an orchestration of this that exists. I've got it, it's in the same key as Robert's recording, it's slightly different though than what you hear. It was edited by Roy Bargy and was arranged by Frank E. Berry. I'm not aware of any Piano-only arrangements of this though.
Luckey made at least three different versions of this tune: the first was a piano roll for Vocalstyle, made in April 1919 [Vocalstyle 11356], which is available as a recut from BluesTone Music Rolls. I am not aware of any recordings of this roll. The second was this 1946 version. The third was a really high-fidelity 1958 recording on the Good Time Jazz LP, "Luckey and the Lion" which you can hear on RUclips user rofdvbw 's page.
In addition to this, Pete Wendling also made a very good roll of this tune, which can be seen and heard on Pianosyncrazy's RUclips channel. Finally, Roy Bargy (who knew Roberts when he was boy growing up in Toledo, Ohio) made a terrific roll of the tune for Mel-O-Dee, demonstrating how well he had learned not only the tune, but also elements of Roberts' style.
I am not aware of any transcriptions of this tune currently available, but Tom Roberts has reportedly transcribed all three versions (AND has recorded it himself on the CD "Roberts Plays Roberts" on Stomp Off), and plans to publish a folio of transcriptions of Roberts, along with a biography of him. This project has been on hold for many years now. Max Keenlyside has learned "Railroad Blues" from the 1958 recording and can be seen playing it on RUclips (channel: tdub1941).
Riccardo Scivales has done a transcription of Luckey Roberts' "Outer Space" in his book _Harlem Stride Piano Solos_ from Ekay Music. It ain't "Railroad Blues" but it is Luckey Roberts.
@honkytonkpiano I should add that the tune WAS originally published as sheet music:: first (in 1919) by the lyricist, Howard C. Washington, in Cincinnati; and then in a second edition (1920) "arranged by Roy Bargy" and published by Van Alstyne and Curtis in Toledo, OH. Both versions are EXTREMELY rare, although I MIGHT have a photocopy of one of them, I'll have to check.
@honkytonkpiano I should mention that Luckey Roberts' first version of this tune, his 1919 Vocalstyle piano roll (which, remarkably, is not that different from this recording!) can be heard on the CD "Jelly's Blues", which is Volume 3 of the great "57 Different Kinds of Blues" series put out by Richard Riley of Pianomania Music. Please see his website for more details.
Many thanks for posting this video. What a great piano solo! Was this the only version of Railroad Blues that he recorded, or are there any others? Do you know of any sheet music transcriptions of this?
This is the way it was. I am 82 years of age. i remember playing this on the wind-up Victrola in 1943-4, when I was 10 years old,, I believe.
I wonder if he is still alive at 90 years of age. My great-grandmother is still living at the age of 94.
Ya know, for all his time in saloons and clubs he was never a drinker and really was a quite kinda hearted man
Un virtuose ce monsieur Luckey Robert.
Hey folks, listen between 0:58 and 1:12, Luckey is really swinging like hell! He's swinging HARD, man!!!
Thanks again for the post of this HOT piano solo!
amazing very nice blues
@jazzgirl1920s There's an orchestration of this that exists. I've got it, it's in the same key as Robert's recording, it's slightly different though than what you hear. It was edited by Roy Bargy and was arranged by Frank E. Berry. I'm not aware of any Piano-only arrangements of this though.
Luckey plays it in D flat!!!!. And this guy right here transcribed it!
Luckey made at least three different versions of this tune: the first was a piano roll for Vocalstyle, made in April 1919 [Vocalstyle 11356], which is available as a recut from BluesTone Music Rolls. I am not aware of any recordings of this roll. The second was this 1946 version. The third was a really high-fidelity 1958 recording on the Good Time Jazz LP, "Luckey and the Lion" which you can hear on RUclips user rofdvbw 's page.
In addition to this, Pete Wendling also made a very good roll of this tune, which can be seen and heard on Pianosyncrazy's RUclips channel.
Finally, Roy Bargy (who knew Roberts when he was boy growing up in Toledo, Ohio) made a terrific roll of the tune for Mel-O-Dee, demonstrating how well he had learned not only the tune, but also elements of Roberts' style.
I continue to love this video and your channel. Thanks !!!
I am not aware of any transcriptions of this tune currently available, but Tom Roberts has reportedly transcribed all three versions (AND has recorded it himself on the CD "Roberts Plays Roberts" on Stomp Off), and plans to publish a folio of transcriptions of Roberts, along with a biography of him. This project has been on hold for many years now.
Max Keenlyside has learned "Railroad Blues" from the 1958 recording and can be seen playing it on RUclips (channel: tdub1941).
Riccardo Scivales has done a transcription of Luckey Roberts' "Outer Space" in his book _Harlem Stride Piano Solos_ from Ekay Music. It ain't "Railroad Blues" but it is Luckey Roberts.
Hello gmoke, thank you very much! Also, I have also transcribed the Intro and 1st strain of his other masterwork "Nothin'".
U GO LUCKY!!!!
@honkytonkpiano I should add that the tune WAS originally published as sheet music::
first (in 1919) by the lyricist, Howard C. Washington, in Cincinnati;
and then in a second edition (1920) "arranged by Roy Bargy" and published by Van Alstyne and Curtis in Toledo, OH.
Both versions are EXTREMELY rare, although I MIGHT have a photocopy of one of them, I'll have to check.
@honkytonkpiano I should mention that Luckey Roberts' first version of this tune, his 1919 Vocalstyle piano roll (which, remarkably, is not that different from this recording!) can be heard on the CD "Jelly's Blues", which is Volume 3 of the great "57 Different Kinds of Blues" series put out by Richard Riley of Pianomania Music. Please see his website for more details.
Many thanks for posting this video. What a great piano solo! Was this the only version of Railroad Blues that he recorded, or are there any others? Do you know of any sheet music transcriptions of this?
the beggining sort of sounds like eubuie blakes arkansas blues
IS this a Fox Trot jazz or blues?