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...including that original recording of Livery Stable Blues, a fast and vastly exuberant piece in a weak-and-strong two-beat, with barnyard sounds reproduced by cornet, clarinet and trombone. From there, the album ranges over various jazz styles-blues, swing, cool-and reaches a high point with Fats Waller's full-chorded, stomping piano playing and lowdown comic singing. Decca's four-record Encyclopedia of Jazz covers much the same ground, with one LP devoted to each of the last four decades. Among its best offerings: a 1927 recording of Johnny Dodds's Black Bottom Stompers...
...boogie, worked out a complex, polyrhythmic style somewhere in between, backed it up with a technique considered the best in jazz; of uremia; in Los Angeles. Jazzman Tatum slugged down enormous quantities of beer as he played, preferred to work solo ("A band hampers me"). The late, great Fats Waller once commented : "That Tatum ... is just too good...
Lucky Six. "A pal and I used to go see Willie The Lion at his club-the Capitol Palace-and Fats Waller at the Orient, and they'd let us sit in and cut in on the tips," Duke recalls. "Every day we'd go play pool until we made $2. With $2 we'd get a pair of 75? steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo...
Died. Raymond Waller, 19, the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Fundation's poster boy since the organization's founding in 1950; after wasting away from the disease for 15 years; in Port Arthur, Texas. Adopted by widowed Mrs. Louise Waller from an orphan home in Austin after he was discovered as an abandoned infant in a Waco movie theater, Raymond fell an early victim to the crippling disease that afflicts some 200,000 people in the U.S. and for which neither cause nor cure is known...
...Died. James Price Johnson, 61, jazz pianist, composer, teacher (star pupil: "Fats" Waller); of a stroke; in New York City. Among his 500 compositions: the original Charleston, If I Could Be with You, the opera Dreamy...