Frank Signorelli - Waltzing With A Dream

Jazz pianist great Frank Signorelli performs his composition "Waltzing With A Dream" Davis DA-34-4. My apologies for the sound quality being so rough; I played these records an awful lot when I was growing up.

Apparently, Davis DA-34 was an album consisting of at least 4 records. I have only two of them; sides 3+4, and 7+8. I am looking for the two missing records of this album (sides 1+2 and 5+6... and any other sides, if they exist).

It's such a shame it's so difficult finding Frank's solo works. He was really fantastic.

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[KawhackitaRag]

Anyway, the article (and also John L. Clark collection) also lists the following two Davis records of the Frank Signorelli Quintet: 9001 ("Margie" and "Jingling the Bells") and 9002 ("Sorrento In the Evening" and "Save It, Pretty Mama").

[KawhackitaRag]

In the aforementioned Billboard article, Joe Davis lists his entire catalog (?) of masters for the Davis records for sale to the highest bidder, including the rights to all future royalties (split with the artists, of course), etc. etc. I wonder who bought the record masters, and where they are today?

[KawhackitaRag]

ALSO: I just found a PDF listing of the "John L. Clark Collection of Jazz Keyboard Recordings" at Virginia Commonwealth University, that shows the missing discs in their collection! The sides are: "A Serenade to You" and "Goin' Nowhere Fast" (Davis 34-1 and 34-2); and "Moonrise on the Caribbean" and "88 Keys to Brooklyn" (Davis 34-5 and 34-6). According to "Billboard" magazine, March 22, 1947, page 17, "Davis" records were apparently owned by publisher Joe Davis.

[KawhackitaRag]

Wonderful waltz! A little bit of it (just a couple of bars) sounds almost note-for-note identical to Charlotte Blake's 1909 waltz "Lily Eyes", possibly a coincidence or perhaps Signorelli had played that waltz when he was young.