[Dixielandjazz] More on pianos -- and not just crappy ones

[Phil O'Rourke]

Don

You reminded me of a Condon LP I have (to quote Bill Haesler) that I now
have out.
Brother Matthew (Boyce Brown), alto; Wild Bill Davison, cnt; Pee Wee
russell, clt; Cutty Cutshall, tbn; Ernie Caceres, brtn & clt; Gene
Schroeder, pno; Bob Casey, bass & George Wettling, dms. This was recorded in
April 1956 and the songs are Linger Awhile, Someday Sweetheart, My Blue
Heaven, Out of Nowhere, Sweet Georgia Brown, Blues for Boyce, World is
Waiting for the Sunrise, Sister Kate, I Never Knew.
I am about to "clean it up" and put it on CD.

Phil O'Rourke
Australia



> Back in the hallowed days of my late teens and early 20's when I hung
> around Club 47 in Studio City and heard some of the legendary jams held
> there, I got to know a sit in player, a lawyer named Carrol Fuller,  who
> was not only a two-fisted, barrelhouse player on piano but also played a
> wonderful "Brother Boyce" (Boyce Brown) style of alto sax. (Brown w as a
> legendary Chicago jazz player who became a Catholic brother in a
> monastic order. He is all too often neglected...what say you Bill
Haesler?))
> One night I heard Doc Rando tell Nappy Lamare (both were Bob Crosby
> alumnis and owners in the club) that Carrol Fuller had just showed up.
> "Does he have his alto with him"," Nappy asked. "Yeah he does," Doc
> said. "Thank God," said Nappy.'"Our tuner's out of  town."
> The remark was that when Carrol played their piano, he played so hard
> that it would  knock it out of tune in about a half hour.
> He was just awesomely powerful but swung hard so the guys used to like
> him sitting in. But Nappy always had to call the tuner in to get the
> piano back in shape afterwards.
> Club 47 tales -- well, there are enough for several books, and one day I
> ought to write one. But first I have to do one on my dad and the
> Weems/Jones/Natural Seven gang.shenanigans.
> Don Ingle