[Dixielandjazz] Re: Better Players

[lswain at penrose.com]

> >  Remember the same mocking and disparagement's directed at Liberace.
> >  the
> >  
> > truth is that Lib was a hell of a pianist.

Before the glitz and glitter of his TV career, I heard on the radio 
his recording of "Twelfth Street Rag" as a little kid of 10 or 11, 
taking piano lessons from a guy whose teaching credentials were his 
career as a piano player in silent-movie houses.  My teacher wrote it 
out at my request (in Eb, melody and chords, in fake-book fashion, as 
he would do for each weekly hour of instruction, at $1.25 per hour), 
and I wowed my fellow campers at the YMCA summer camp I attended in 
Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, with my version of it. 

He was in fact extraordinary, and that got lost in the glitz and 
glitter.

Larry Swain


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