[Dixielandjazz] Re: Organs in Jazz - Was Fats Waller first?

[butch]

on 12/1/02 8:41 PM, Stephen Barbone at barbonestreet@earthlink.net wrote:

> Bill Haesler wrote: (polite snip
> 
>> Dear Steve,
>> Regarding your question: >Has anybody got those early Fats Waller records
>> with
>> him on organ? Of course! Hasn't everyone on the DJML got them? 8>)
>> (Snip)
>> As is usual for me. More than you needed to know. Guess what I am playing at
>> the
>> moment? Yep! The Fats' organ sides. Thanks for the reminder.
> 
> Thank you Bill, for all the information. As you might know, NYC and
> Philadelphia
> are only 90 miles apart and a haven for jazz organ players. (mostly modern) I
> grew
> up in NYC listening to Wild Bill Davis, Milt Buckner, Jimmy McGriff, Groove
> Holmes
> et al., and then came to the Philadelphia area and kept listening to Shirley
> Scott,
> Papa John DeFrancesco, Joey DeFrancesco et al. I was aware of the Waller
> recordings
> but never gave them a serious listen until about a year ago. Personally, I
> love the
> sound, regardless of the musical genre.
> 
> I too was surprised at the Waller reference in the NY Times when trad jazz is
> so
> rarely mentioned. I tried to get a write up for Barbone Street's trumpet
> player who
> did a week's show tour there playing the trumpet part in  Andre De Shields'
> "West
> End Blues - Louis Armstrong"  Great show. Solid crowds in attendance, and Paul
> Grant did a masterful job with the West End Blues cadenza as well as the rest
> of
> the show. All I got from the New York press corps was polite yawns. Even a
> player
> who looks like Louis of the late 30s and is obviously influenced by him,
> though not
> a clone, can't get any respect. Bummer.
> 
> Ah well, at this Wednesday's brewpub gig, the Philadelphia Inquirer (the major
> paper in Philadelphia) is preparing a full page article on Barbone Street,
> complete
> with color photos and interviews at the venue. It will appear on Sunday,
> December
> 15, in the Arts & Leisure section so I'm told. Paul will be on that one too
> and
> hopefully get some press. The reporters told me they are getting tired of
> doing
> artists like Andrew Wyeth and James Wyeth and a bunch of others. They are
> grateful
> for the chance to drink some beer, or single malt and write about the "Lively
> Arts". ;-)  (wait till they see our beautiful, young, audience)
> 
> Go Philadelphia.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> Barbone Street Jazz Band
> http://home.earthlink.net/~barbonestreet/
> 
> 
> 
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