[Dixielandjazz] Celebrity thread

[Ron L'Herault]

I don't think that is true.  Durante was, from what I have read
somewhere one of the better white novelty ragtime pianists.

Ron L

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Regarding Jimmy Durante. When I was learning to play the Rag, Dill
Pickles, I 
remember reading that this was the one rag (and apparently the only one)
that 
Jimmy Durante could play. (It's fairly simple--key of G). He was also
quoted 
(somewhere) as saying that it always got him a round of applause when he

started out on Coney Island. Back then, I guess, you had to play an
instrument as 
well as dance and tell jokes to get booked. Later Max Morath, (my great
hero of 
syncopated piano) inserted most of Dill Pickles into his rendition of
Livin A 
Ragtime Life. Absolute great stuff!

Dan (piano fingers) Spink 
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