Impressive Australian singer and piano player, who knows all resources of twenties and thirties Afroamerican entertainers Pugsley has learned and plays all stylistic devices and piano keys coming from old days piano players, such as vaudeville, Harlem stride, barrelhouse, jazz, New Orleans, boogie-woogie, juke-joint blues… and so on Vocally speaking, he has been compared with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart and, as piano player, he follows the traces of Thelonious Monk, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Roosevelt Sykes, Alain Toussaint, Fats Waller or Chico Marx among others As you may easily imagine, Pugsley Buzzard is a terrific singer and piano player, a real master of show business and an amazing entertainer of different audiences, gifted with a huge talent and a sense of humor, sometimes ironical, sometimes sarcastic but always intelligent and funny Brizzard shines al a very high level and gets the leading role on this superb appetizing album that includes own compositions and different versions of his more admired musicians such as Fats Waller, Mose Ellison, Vernon Duke, Bert Williams, Jimmy Cox, Claude DeMetrius, Louis Jordan, Dr John or Henry Glover Drummer Trapper Jon Travena backs him with a clever tasteful playing and a deep knowledge too