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

[John Farrell]

A long time ago Decca (a now defunct British record company) borrowed all my
Fats QRS piano rolls, recorded them on an organ fitted with the necessary
equipment and released an LP. To my surprise the sleeve note said that the
rolls came "from the Keith Nichols collection" (Keith didn't even own a
player piano)!!! Somewhere - but where? - I still have the original tapes of
that session, Decca made a pretty authentic sounding job of it.

John Farrell
stridepiano@tesco.net
http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "butch" <butcht@sihope.com>
To: "djml" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Organs in Jazz - Was Fats Waller first?


> Fats' playing in the Camden studio was miraculous.  Another great session,
> one of my favorites, is the Louisiana Sugar Babes, March 27, 1928.  Fats
> pulls off the miraculous here, managing to play swinging organ in an
> ensemble that included James P. Johnson on piano, Jabbo Smith on trumpet,
> and Garvin Bushell on various reeds.  Somehow Fats managed not only to
match
> his time with the others -- not an inconsiderable feat, because of the big
> Estey organ's characteristically sluggish response. In fact, the band
swings
> like crazy, just like anything Fats was ever involved in. Just another
> example of the Waller mastery.   Butch Thompson
>
>
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