Donald Lambert - I Know That You Know

[@jungunkim7868]

this song make me a so happy I won't make missiles anymore

[@jungunkim7868]

Just kidding !!!!

[@itsRemco]

😂

[@jesserussell7242]

This is one of the best versions of my know that you know that I have ever heard it’s too bad this piano player is not recognized as he should be.

[@ltravail]

Indeed. But you have to keep in mind the era that great players like Lambert and Willie the Lion Smith and Fats Waller, etc. lived in. Recording was in its toddler stages, and there were no recurring jazz festivals or fancy concert halls for that music, and ideas or news still traveled mostly by word of mouth. Even a once-in-a-generation genius like Art Tatum is barely known today except by jazz enthusiasts. But they laid the path to glory for later generations of musicians like Peterson, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, etc...most of them household names now. Might not sound fair, but that's life. We should realize and appreciate what a unique (and fleeting) time the post-war golden age in america was...that age that allowed the Petersons and Garners of this world to obtain fame and fortune none of the earlier masters could even dream of.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Fats Waller was a household name in the 30s and 40s since he was a star on Victor records by then. However you're right that Willie The Lion was primarily known in Harlem and Newark in the Black communities in the 1920s and although he appeared as sideman on a few jazz records in the 20s and 30s, didn't start becoming better known to jazzfans until the late 30s, and not a bonafide star until like the 1950s. Donald Lambert was even more obscure: even though he came to visit New York occasionally, he was mostly known only to a small local clientele of the bar he played in West Orange, New Jersey. He didn't achieve fame until his appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, two years before he died. He was mostly an underground pianist before that who was legendary since 1950 (mentioned in Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis' book "They All Played Ragtime") and since the 50s, various jazzfans made pilgrimages to NJ to record him on reel to reel tapes, but he only got to make 4 commercial solo piano records in the 78 era and just a couple commercial LPs. The rest of the hours if recordings we have of him are these enthusiast made home recordings on reel to reel by the likes of Harvey & Peter Ballance; Mike Lipskin; Neville Dickie; possibly Mike Montgomery and others. Some were also recorded by Mr Wallace himself (proprietor of Wallace's Tavern) and by other admirers. He also did a formal session for Rudi Blesh's Circle Records that was not originally commercially released but which has come out later.

[@philippevinot4798]

un tempo de la main gauche terrifiant !!

[@itsRemco]

You really like stride huh 😁

[@Aaron-md2eo]

yup he does xD kinda cool always seeing the same commenters under each song :D

[@itsRemco]

@@Aaron-md2eo yeah 😂

[@EPIGNOSIS777]

The only guy that touches Art Tatum. Unbelievable and how come he is so unknown for God's sake????

[@kafenwar]

+Kostas Tzouve Donald Lambert was never interested in either fame or commercial recordings. He hated New York, even though he is lumped in with the Harlem Stride school.

[@TheLemon333]

Apples and oranges

[@jhas888]

What a glorious frolic. Jimmie Noone's red hot clarinet in 1928 was even more memorable, but a later version not so. Liquor intake on the day reputedly pushed Jimmie's playing up or down..