[Dixielandjazz] Rachmaninov (was Rimsky Korsakoff)

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

MINOR MOOD was the Joe Sullivan item I had in mind 

I played the recording to friends who were not much into jazz or Rachmaninov,
but they knew the notorious Prelude well enough to fall about laughing.

There are of course two LITTLE ROCK GETAWAYs 

The second was also featured on one of the amazing Dill Jones recordings 

(one of which I seem to remember Steve Voce extolling above all other Stride Piano LPs)

There is also I now recall a Rachmaninov item delivered in Errol Garner's rhapsodic mode.
On one of his undeservedly less celebrated solo LPs. 

But of course much of the  Great American Songbook was the work of exiles 

or children of exiles from the same country as Rachmaninov

good wishes 


Robert 






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> From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
>ROBERT R. CALDER wrote in part on a slow DJML day:
>> Rachmaninov does however have some jazz pedigree, with the parody in the RUSSIAN RAG of a Mr. Cobb, which was redone in a brilliantly funny solo piano recording by Joe Sullivan, who gave the item another name I can't for the moment remember. 
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>Dear Robert,
>Joe Sullivan's "Little Rock Getaway" is probably the tune you are thinking of.
>With a hint of the Rachmaninov and "Zonky' by Fats Waller and Andy Razaf.
>Also used by Sullivan as the basis for his "In A Minor Mood".
>Very kind regards,
>Bill.
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