BILLY PENROSE

   Con BILLY PENROSE QUARTET nos encontramos una vez más delante de estos artistas los cuales es difícil encontrar documentación porque apenas existe ya véis que nos tenemos que conformar con la imagen de uno de sus discos a pesar de ello , el canal BOOGIE WOOGIE  nos ofrece unos audios interesantes montados con videos más o menos afines ,que reproducimos por que consideramos  originales y diferentes , por entender que pueden resultar de interés para todos los aficionados aqui los tenéis : 

                                                           
                         



                       

                                                           
                      





                                                                   
                       

In March, 1945, as the terrible war in Europe was coming to an end, a young pianist named Billy Penrose entered the now-famous Abbey Road studios in London to record four Boogie-Woogie instrumentals. His "day job" (although usually performed in the evening) was as a member of the Lou Preager Orchestra, which was regularly heard on BBC radio and was also the resident dance band at the famous Hammersmith Palais. In the studio, Penrose was accompanied by the guitarist (Paul Rich, later more famous as a singer), bass player and drummer from Preager's orchestra, and when the third and fourth titles from the session were issued on a Parlophone 78 that May, "Boogie In The Groove" & "Lazy Boogie", it was under the name "Billy Penrose Quartet".

In June, 1945, by which time the war in Europe had ended, Billy Penrose and the same accompanists returned to Abbey Road to cut two more sides (possibly more), "Boogie In Black And White" & "Billy's Boogie", which were issued in September. In October of the following year, the first two titles from the earlier session, "Harlem Boogie" & "Boogie In The Ballroom", were issued. And that, as far as recording in his own name was concerned, was that, Billy Penrose became one of countless thousands of footnotes (if that) in the history of the music business. To Boogie-Woogie aficionados, however, Billy Penrose made some of the finest English recordings in the genre, original, all self-penned and clearly Ragtime and Jazz influenced.

Sadly, Billy Penrose's life was not a happy one, but we have the music to remember him by, presented here in the order in which they were recorded. This sixth (and last) track is "Billy's Boogie", from