Frank Signorelli - Just Plain Lazy

Jazz pianist great Frank Signorelli performs his composition "Just Plain Lazy" Davis DA-34-7. 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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Music

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• Frank
• Signorelli
• Just
• Plain
• Lazy
• jazz
• piano
• solo
• 78rpm

[Maxxarcade]

Nice piano tune! I wonder if there's any music like this in my stack of 78's.

[PunkTiger]

@Maxxarcade

You'll be lucky if there is. I can't find any information on this series of records anywhere online. And I find precious little info about Frank outside of the Original Memphis Five and one or two other bands.

Oh, and I've posted the other three sides to YT as well.

[KawhackitaRag]

Another very nice recording! Very personal style... Frank Signorelli seems to have absorbed stylistic aspects of his piano-playing contemporaries in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including Pauline Alpert, Bix Beiderbecke, Rube Bloom, James P. Johnson, Willard Robison, Fats Waller. I hear bits of each in this.

Of course, quite a lot of the figures you hear in this is all his own, too! His touch is very personal and very good.

[KawhackitaRag]

@PunkTiger check out my comments on Waltzing with a Dream for what I could find on these records. I am sure if you keep checking 78 RPM record auctions online, you should be able to find the other two records in this set, plus the other two records he did for Davis, with his Quintet (Davis 9001 and 9002). A copy of 9001 was listed for sale in an online record auction listing from 2006, found in today's google search. Perhaps it's still unsold! I'll send the link to your YT inbox.

[maxinDetroit]

thanks for sharing-signorelli was wonderful pianist and composer...