[Dixielandjazz] Best/favourite Piano Solo

[John Farrell]

Mike is a Morton nut which is not a bad thing to be and explains his choice.
I see that he has refined the subject line to favourite piano solos, which
puts me in some difficulty as I cannot come up with one which I prefer above
all others.

With that in mind, my contribution to this thread is as follows :

Anything played by Tatum.
Most Lou Busch (aka Joe "Fingers" Carr) solos except the honkytonk stuff -
Busch was a simply amazing straight ahead jazz player.
Peterson playing alone (without drums & bass)
All Marvin Ash solos
Most of Don Ewell
Stanley Cowell playing You Took Advantage Of Me on the LP "Blues For The
Viet Cong"

And that just scratches the surface, there are many, many more. How can it
be possible to pick just one?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Meddings" <mike@monrovia.screaming.net>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:17 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Best/favourite Piano Solo


> Continuing the best/favourite solo discussion.
>
> I'd like to put forward Jelly Roll Morton's piano solo on "My Melancholy
> Baby #1" from the Baltimore acetate session of 8th April (?) 1938.
>
> Originally released on the LP Alamac QSR 2424.   Jelly creeps in with a
> stunning ghostly chorus following Smith's alto solo.
>
> Dick Burg (tp): Eddie or Teddy Smith (as): Jelly Roll Morton (p ): Biddy
> Fleet (g): unknown (sb): unknown (d)
>
> For further details of the Baltimore sessions see :
>
> http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/page15.html and
>
> http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/page27.html
>
> Musically yours
>
> Mike
>
> mike@monrovia.screaming.net
> http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
>
>
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