Jazztodon artist of the week: Dick Wellstood!

From Wikipedia: Pianist Wellstood took piano lessons as a boy, though he was self-taught as a performer of stride and boogie-woogie. Beginning in 1946, he played boogie-woogie, swing, stride piano, and dixieland with bands led by Bob Wilber. A year later he began two years of accompanying Sidney Bechet. In 1952, he toured Europe with Jimmy Archey, then worked with Roy Eldridge. He also worked with Red Allen, Buster Bailey, Wild Bill Davison, Vic Dickenson, Coleman Hawkins, and Ben Webster. He went to school and received a law degree, though thirty years would pass before he spent a brief time practicing law.

After the 1970s, he turned his attention to small groups and solo piano, performing often at the Newport Jazz Festival and touring with Davern and Bob Rosengarden. In the 1980s, he joined the Classic Jazz Quartet with Marty Grosz, Joe Muranyi, and Dick Sudhalter, worked again in duos with Davern and Dick Hyman.

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Portrait of #BobWilber, #JohnnyGlazel, #DickWellstood, #CharlieTraeger, and #EdPhyse, #JimmyRyans Club), #NewYork, #N.Y., ca. Dec. 1946

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