[Dixielandjazz] PAT Flowers and Willie Mabon

[Marek Boym]

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>   Pat Flowers was from Detroit, but was it would seem classically trained,
> and if you want a faster more accurate stride pianist you will probably
> labour in vain, to judge from the Flowers recordings collected on the
> Classics label, including Waller material


On some RCA compilation they say that he was compared to no less than Fats
Waller (or something of the sort), forgetting to mention that it was Victor
who did that - after all, it wanted another best selling star!  So Fowler
recorded with a similar band, but Waller he was not.

Cheers



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