[Dixielandjazz] provocative piano

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

The Hyman Wurlitzer recordings with Ruby Braff are of course excluded from my reference to "electric stomach" as they date from rather later than the Hyman pop recordings, and I do find a certain irony in the Wurlitzer -- as I recall there was a German film of some years ago with Paganini in the title, nickname of one of the characters. The denouement of the film involved exposure of the fact that the real name of one of the characters was in fact Wurlitzer -- or so I was told, for I missed the last twenty minutes when someone telephoned. 

An instrument of enormous proportions, comprehensively equipped with devices to interfere with the making of straightforward music ???  


Mine's a merry monochord !




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> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
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>I wonder what long-ago Dick Hyman with Enoch Light would provoke?
>>(link to PROVOCATIVE PIANO     on sepia records CD provided by listmate).   Relief at the time on the part of his financial advisers, I imagine. Admittedly I prefer this stuff to his roughly contemporary performances on synthesizer 
>>and other electronica or indeed what Humphrey Lyttelton called electric stomach;
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>How about his organ on the duets with Ruby Braff?  I tend towards the "relief" bit. 
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>Cheers
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