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Other QRS Luminaries on Record
By Bryan Cather

In reference to the recent string about J. Lawrence Cook's phono
records:  Has anyone ever run into records by some of Cook's
co-workers?

On a CD called "Keyboard Artists of the Gershwin Era, Vol III: Arden
and Ohman", is Euday Bowman's "12th Street Rag", played by Max
Kortlander and Victor Arden.  The notes indicate that this recording
was made in July of 1920, and was a "vertical-cut Pathe disc that was a
mechanical dub from a cylinder master."

This is the only time I've ever heard of Kortlander making any
recordings other than rolls.  Is it possible that Arden was playing
along with a Kortlander roll?

While I'm on the subject; does anyone know of any other roll artists on
record?  I have a couple Frank Banta records, and we all probably have
some kind of recordings of Fats Waller and James P. Johnson.  Now a
fellow in the Texas Chapter of AMICA tells me he read someplace where
someone found some records by Pete Wendling on the Okeh label.  Can
anyone verify this?

Bryan S. Cather
Arlington,Texas
BSnakeC@AOL.com

P.S.  Aahhh, Fosters -- the beer that got me to like beer...
I made it through 5 once!


(Message sent Wed 25 Feb 1998, 22:59:05 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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