The emotional acuity and impact of this book ensures that it is always close at hand.Joe’s career lasted some 60 years and he was variously styled as a bluesman, a jazz singer, a Rythmn and Blues stylist and a pioneer rock ‘n’ roller – whatever the label the big man went his own sweet way launching every song into the stratosphere with the immense power of his vocals.As, ‘The Singing Barman’ he formed a famous partnership with pianist Pete Johnson immortalised in the standard, ‘Roll ‘Em Pete’.Let’s pull our Sleigh up again. James P. Johnson, highly influential black American jazz pianist who also wrote popular songs and composed classical works. A founder of the stride piano idiom, he was a crucial figure in the transition from ragtime to jazz. The phenomenal Fats Waller had accomplishments in five different roles: He was one of the most brilliant of all stride pianists. Today I think it’s time to remember that Christmas is a time for celebration. These technically challenging compositions would be learned by his contemporaries, and would serve as test pieces in solo competitions, in which the New York pianists would demonstrate their mastery of the keyboard, as well as the swing, harmonies, and improvisational skills which would further distinguish the great masters of the era. Johnson seemed to be at his finest when he attacked the piano as if it were a drum set. In addition to his virtuoso pianistic accomplishments evident on Fats' solo recordings, Waller ranks as one of the great composers of the golden age of American Popular Song. Jazz icon Thomas "Fats" Waller was kidnapped in order to be a birthday present for notorious mobster Al Capone. He studied piano with James P. Johnson, one of the masters of the stride piano in the 1920s. The largest anthology of Johnson's recordings was compiled in the Giants of Jazz series by Time-Life Music. They are all fine players given their chance to shine but there is no doubt who is the star of the show!You would also know Joe was around because his voice could break through walls and wake the dead.You can just imagine the big beaming smile of Joe as he tears into this Christmas frolic.A couple of non fiction works examining aspects of my continuing obsessions.Freddie Taylor supplies the vocal to the guitar wizardry.Fine, I’ve been drinking something far stronger and it sure does wonders for your ability to remember lyrics and the precision of your enunciation.Rublev, following the Orthodox tradition, sees the events of The Nativity not as historical episodes but as living events the faithful community participated in as they celebrated the liturgy.His, ‘A Spotless Rose’ especially when sung with the aching purity of The New College Oxford Choir tenderly ushers the cosmic into our mortal consciousness.From the moment, ‘Christmas Date Boogie’ opens we know we are in good hands.In the same way that Fats Waller could drop all jaws playing the 88 Keys no one astonished 6 string afficianados more than Django Reinhardt.I’m calling on each of you to supply your own vocal here ….Our painting today is by Andrei Rublev whose Icons and Frescos are supreme works of devotional art.No, just follow the tried and tested recipe :So in respect of the American Civil War, ‘A Year in the South 1865’ by Stephen V Ash.Sadly his early death meant that the true depth of his talents were never fully sounded but nevertheless he leaves a unique legacy of wondrously entertaining recordings.

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