BillF

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Fascinating stuff! 👍

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The very same! 👍 👍 Now playing:

A mainstay of jazz of the classic era.

My favorite Dodo story (and I can't remember where I read it) was that when Dodo was staying in the home of a musician friend, the friend and wife went shopping, leaving Dodo alone in the house. On return they were amazed to to see lots of their furniture in the front garden. They found Dodo at the piano in a room otherwise bare of furniture. Asked why, Dodo said, "Man, the acoustics weren't right".😃

👍 Indeed! I remember being blown away when he strode to the front of the Mel Lewis Orchestra for the first solo of the first number in a concert I saw in 1989, not too long before this recording was made.

He's on this one:

I agree. And Bartley's frequent partner, Emmet Cohen, plays a pretty distinctive piano.

Onanissimo!