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...flights, exploring the full reach of the keyboard with a fanciful right hand and a strong and steady bass line. In improvisation, his imagination is rich to the point of bursting, and he punctuates his own ideas with ironic mockeries of the pianists he has learned something from-Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum...
Died. Lizzie Miles (real name: Elizabeth Landreaux Pajaud), 68, one of the last of the great Negro blues shouters. a laughing, mountainous, born-and-bred Bourbon Streeter who belted them out for the jazz bands of Kid Ory, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
More in the bluegrass-old-timey-country line are John Duffey, Charley Waller, and The Country Gentlemen, who appear on two Folkways albums. Recommended is the one which contains "Drifting Too Far From the Shore." If you don't change your sinful ways after hearing it, you can console yourself with a perusal of the Folkways liner notes. These are, as always, an education in themselves, if slightly ludicrous. Jean Ritchie sings traditional Child Ballads as they are found, only somewhat changed, in Kentucky, once again on Folkways. If you've thought of the dulcimer as a limited instrument...
...Kidnap, Waller...
...Kidnap, Waller...