[78-L] fwd: Art van Damme

[David Lennick]

The accordion sides were always on Discovery, but Shearing did record for Savoy 
as well..just piano. And those two accordion sides are pretty .. uh .. interesting.

What's the difference between an accordion and an onion?





















Nobody cries when you cut up an accordion.

dl




Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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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