Artist's albums
A Night In Dublin
2001 · album
Live At The Sticky Wicket
1997 · album
The Duet
1994 · album
In Gay Old New Orleans
1993 · album
Alone
1972 · album
Stridemonster!
1986 · album
Live Hot Jazz
1986 · album
Dick Wellstood- Kenny Davern
1981 · album
Live At Hanratty's
1981 · album
This Is the One...Dig!
1977 · album
Fats Waller Revisited
2016 · album
From Dixie To Swing
2016 · album
Lennie Felix / Dick Wellstood
2006 · album
"Duet"
2005 · album
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Biography
One of the two great stride pianists (along with Ralph Sutton) to emerge during the 1940s when members of their generation were generally playing bebop, Wellstood kept an open mind toward later styles (he loved Monk) while sounding at his best playing classic jazz. A little more subtle than Sutton, Wellstood was also a powerful pianist who was a superb interpreter of the music of James P. Johnson and his contemporaries. He came to New York with Bob Wilber's Wildcats in 1946 and caught on in the trad jazz scene quickly. By 1947 he was playing with Sidney Bechet, and in the 1950s he mostly worked with veteran players including trumpeters Roy Eldridge, Rex Stewart, and Charlie Shavers and the Eddie Condon gang. He was in the intermission band at Condon's starting in 1956 and later was house pianist at the Metropole and Nick's. After a period with Gene Krupa's quartet, he toured with the World's Greatest Jazz Band. Wellstood remained active throughout his all-too-short life, playing solo concerts, performing at jazz parties, and recording quite a few memorable albums. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi