Oscar Peterson

[Prof. Euphonious Thump]

Well, Ruth Etting and Bix Beiderbecke were from
Indiana, Tatum was from Toledo, Ohio, Hines was from
Pittsburgh, Jones was a  Pennsylvania coal miner,
Tucker was from Hartford and  Thomas "Fats" Waller was
from Harlem, where his father was a Deacon at the
Baptist church ( and he learned to play, on the organ
). But I'm "with you" as far as the beauty, skill and
potency of these artists'  music is concerned, and its
vast superiority  vs much of what has been created,
since ! 

Peace,
     Thump

P.S. If you likle this sort of stuff, you may be very
interested in TCM's new "Box Set" of "The Jazz Singer"
( 1927 ) which includes 2-1/2 extra hours of
"Vitaphone" shorts, from about 1926 onward, with many
of the musical/Vaudevilian Artistes of the day !!!



--- Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:

> Hi Duaine
> 
> Ok... since I for one actually draw some measure of
> humorous moments 
> from your pandoric paranoia preponderments relative
> to Microsoft, and 
> because of the rather interesting list of artists
> below.... you can 
> consider yourself redeemed for my part :)
> 
> A bit odd tho that you can dig some of the below and
> have trouble with 
> Oscar.  I mean... bop was rather easy to follow....
> its not like it we 
> were talking about free bag or anything.  Try
> Ornette Coleman on for 
> size :)  Or perhaps some of Don Pullan and George
> Adams stuff...
> 
> Cheers
> RicB
> 
>     List,
> 
>     First of all, I'm late with this reply because I
> just got of the
>     hospital from infection of the esophagus.
> 
>     Now, trying to redeem myself.
> 
>     I love - most - forms of music especially what I
> feel is - true - jazz,
>     blues and boogie-woogie that came from the south
> from the 20's and
>     30's -
>     Earl Hines, Cab Calloway, Ma Rainey, Ruth
> Etting, Josephine Baker, Isham
>     Jones, Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Frankie
> Trumbauer, Fats Waller, Ben
>     Pollack, Ben Selvin, Billy Cotton, Ted Lewis,
> Sophie Tucker, Bessie
>     Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Cow Cow Davenport, Meade
> Lux Lewis, Jane Green,
>     and Walter Barnes & His Royal Creolians
>     -- just to name a few.
> 
>     Not to mention my beloved artists from my era -
> the 70's - ELO, STYX,
>     HEAD EAST,  and the like.
> 
>     OH, and must not forget about all the ragtime
> greats
> 
>     Ready for the flames again ......
> 
> 
> 
> 



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