Old film stock just discovered of Nick Gill playing Fats Waller's frenetic piano solo evoking the scurrying pleasure seeking crowds of late 1930s Piccadilly. Played with some original touches and the perfect stride piano drum accompaniment by Andy Crisp.
This little gem relates to an incident which occurred in pre-war Chicago. Fats Waller had an engagement at the Trout Club on Lechlade and 5th, but was kidnapped by hoodlums who drove him to the Hawthorne Hotel to play at Al Capone's birthday party. That left the Trout Club in a fix, but a little-known English swinger by the name of Nick Gill came in off the street with a sideman called Andy and proved so smooth on the ivories that most of the patrons never even knew Fats was not in the house.
Konwajiro 1 year ago