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Overshadowed through the years by his contemporary, Wally Rose, Burt Bales was a talented stride and ragtime pianist in his own right. He started playing piano when he was 12 and worked in California in the 1930s in various hot...
More »Overshadowed through the years by his contemporary, Wally Rose, Burt Bales was a talented stride and ragtime pianist in his own right. He started playing piano when he was 12 and worked in California in the 1930s in various hot...
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From Wikipedia: Burt Bales (April 20, 1917, Stevensville, Montana - October 26, 1989, San Francisco) was an Am...

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In an excerpt on pg. 174 of Turk Murphy: Just for the Record by Jim Goggin (San Francisco Traditional Jazz Fou...

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Ray Skjelbred plays Rendezvous With a Dream on March 16, 2009 at Pier 23 in San Francisco, fifty years after h...
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