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

[Don Ingle]

A side note to QRS piano rolls. The company was once owned by Thomas
Pletcher, father of trumpeter Stew Pletcher of the 1030's Norvo band and
grandfather of cornetist/Bixophile Tom Pletcher. Like the rolls, what goes
around comes around.
Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil O'Rourke" <philor@webone.com.au>
To: "John Farrell" <stridepiano@tesco.net>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Organs in Jazz - Was Fats Waller first?


>
> > 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
>
> I have a copy of this on an ASV Living Era AJA 5007 and Keith gets a
> mention.
>
> Phil O'Rourke
> Australia
>
>
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