[78-L] fwd: Art van Damme

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 08:25:51 PST 2010


George Shearing made a very few sides early on as an accordionist.  There's
a couple of them on an old Discovery LP I have, and I understand they were
originally on Savoy 78s.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:18 PM, GENE JOSLIN <electrodeon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How about Benny Moten's brother"Buster", who got off a great chorus on
> "Moten StomP" (scroll Victor)
> -GJ
>
> --- On Fri, 2/19/10, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> > Subject: [78-L]  fwd: Art van Damme
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 10:15 AM
> > Art Van Damme may have been
> > influenced by Goodman but it was another
> > accordionist, Ernie Felice, who recorded with Goodman’s
> > small groups
> > for Capitol. Felice then went on to recorded for Capitol
> > under his own
> > name, as did Art Van Damme. I have the Capitol 78s of
> > Felice with
> > Goodman and think an accordionist was the wrong choice for
> > Goodman. My
> > belief is Capitol was grooming Felice to record under his
> > own name once
> > he had gained enough recognition by playing with Goodman.
> > Another
> > occasional practitioner of jazz accordion was pianist Pete
> > Jolly.
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