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

[Steven Holzer]

Dick Sudhalter discusses Boyce Brown in his Lost Chords book.  He 
mentions this album, which I might add I also own. There were great 
hopes for it when it came out, but it appears that Boyce was not feeling 
the magic when they made it, and he faded back into obscurity after 
cutting it.  My own opinion is that the album is fairly pedestrian, 
considering the wealth of talent involved. Perhaps Boyce should have 
gigged a little bit to get his chops back before going to the studio. In 
any event, it doesn'tdo much to document Boyce at his best, so he, like 
Buddy Bolden and Emmett Hardy, will probably have to remain shadowy 
figures in the lost history of jazz.

Steve Holzer

Phil O'Rourke wrote:

>Don
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>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.
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>Phil O'Rourke
>Australia
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>>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
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>Haesler?))
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>>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
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