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From Barrelhouse to Bop (John Mehegan, piano; Perspective LP). An illustrated lecture on the history of jazz, rather self-consciously narrated but well played by Juilliard's professor of jazz piano. His performance manages some close approximations of such jazz stylists as Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Smith, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, George Shearing and others...
...Instead of taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. ¶Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions of all his books, such manuscripts as a letter to Washington Irving, one of eleven existing copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems-all making...
...Fats Waller Favorites (James P. Johnson; Decca, 2 sides LP). Among Waller's favorites: Ain't Misbehamn', I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, Honeysuckle Rose-all played with light fingers and breezy ideas by the man who taught Waller himself...
...nightspot bar on Key West's Duval Street, a full-bloused songstress named Rae Waller was tickling the patrons' ears with a new song about Harry Truman. (Sample verse: "Bar pianos strain their glands/For the touch of Harry's hands.") Yet while the song poked fun at him, Key West's most important tourist was more than welcome in the southernmost city...
Commodore issued a characteristic Sutton set (2 sides LP) ranging from the gentle syncopation of four seldom-heard Beiderbecke piano transcriptions to the solid honkytonk bounce of Three Little Words. Columbia followed up a Sutton record issued in its Piano Moods series last fall with Sutton playing eight Fats Waller tunes (2 sides LP) as they had not been played since the late great Negro pianist bubbled through them himself...