Word: pianola
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...concerts will consist of the following selections: "Harvard Hymn" by William Howard Payne '69; "On Thou the Central Orb" by Gibbons; "Three Italian Madrigals," one by Mounteverdi and two by Gastoldi; "Pianola D'Amore" from "Four Choral Patterns from the New Yorker" by Irving G. Fine '38 with verse by David McCord '21; and choruses from "Patience" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Jimmie' Johnson's place in jazz history does not depend on Fats Waller. Back in the early '205, when Jimmie made countless pianola rolls for the old Q.R.S. company, his powerful perforations were idolized by the most genuine, undiluted barrelhouse pianists and their admirers. Today he is regarded among them generally as the noblest professor of them...
...gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...
Most of the pianola artists moved on to greener pastures. But J. Lawrence Cook stayed. He continued to make his own rolls, also produced rolls that accurately ghosted the performances of other jazz improvisers. He did this by listening to their phonograph records, carefully transcribing what he heard into a musical score, then playing his score on Imperial's perforating machine. Today Imperial issues pianola rolls by such jazz artists as Fats Waller, Ted Baxter and Pete Mendoza. All are ghosted by J. Lawrence Cook...
...never made the big time as a jazz pianist. But as a good "paper man" (i.e., a musician who can read, write and arrange music) he got a job with a Harlem music publisher, later with Q.R.S. in The Bronx. He has made over 20,000 arrangements for pianola rolls...