[Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos

[Ron Wheeler]

One O'Clock Jump?  Surely you must mean Stacy's solo on Sing, Sing, Sing.

...and puhleeze let's avoid any discussion of whether that was really Teddy
Wilson on that number!

Ron Wheeler
Wake Island
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Thurmond" <gmthur@delrio.com>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 13:10
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos


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>     Count me with Sterve Barbone on two of his fovorites - Jess Stacy's
> simple, haunting solo on Benny Goodman's One O'Clock Jump at the 1938
> concert - amazing what a strong left hand and a very few well chosen notes
> with the right can do.  My point - it doesn't take a run of 16th notes and
> strange scales to craft a memorable solo.
>
>     And Jelly's work on Mamanita - I'm hooked on that Spanish tinge!
>
>     Finally, I forgot to add agreat clarinet solo on my earlier post.
> Irving Fazola's on the Bobcats "March of the Bobcats".  Many have tried to
> copy or duplicate it, but none, to my ears, ever got it like Faz.
>
>
> George Thurmond
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