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

[Ron L'Herault]

I think I have that LP, or one like it, released by the Jazz Heritage
Society, I think.  I'll have to look when I get home.  It is actually pretty
nice.

Ron L
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Farrell" <stridepiano@tesco.net>
To: "butch" <butcht@sihope.com>; "djml" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:35 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
> 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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