Dink Johnson was born in New Orleans around 1880, and was the younger brother of Bill Johnson, King Oliver's great bass player. Dink played a swinging, stomping, Jelly-like piano style. He had a repertoire of tunes as unique as his style, containing many tunes of his own and other tunes long forgotten. Dink had a rollicking, contagious sense of humor which comes through on these recordings. The weirdest thing he ever did by far is, "The Pidgeon Walk." at best, the tune was just another dance tune that never got off the ground but at the hands of Dink it becomes a masterpiece of something or another! It is indeed pathetic that Dink could die and leave so little in reserve for those who belatedly came to appreciate his work.

Tracklist:

Kansas City Stomp
Cannonball Rag
When the Sun Goes Down
Twelfth Street Rag
Pidgeon Walk
Dink's Blues
Vegas Stomp, Las
Original Jelly Roll Blues
Exactly Like You
Stomp de Lowdown
Four or Five Times
Lazy Blues
Lady Be Good
Frog-I-More Rag
Clementine
Dink's Last Blues
That Indian Rag
Grace and Beauty
At the Jazz Band Ball
Wolverine Blues

UPC: 038153064624
Label: Delmark
Release Date: 3.16.04
Format: CD

Dink Johnson - Mr. Johnson Signing Off (CD)