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>Rach said something about how he
had heard about some jazz guy named Will Tatum [I think this was the guy's
name; I'm no jazz man], so Skitch took Rach to some dive in downtown LA
where
Tatum was playing live, and Rach really liked it.<

ART Tatum. Glad Rach liked it. Rachmaninoff was interesting to me (in my
sideline as collector of 78 rpm records) for being among the first
classical composers who was also a recording star. He was a Victor artist
from sometime in the 1910s until the 1940s. I have a few of his records.
Not all his recordings were of his own compositions. 

There was a strong influence of modern European classical music on some
jazz musicians, notable especially in the case of Bix Beiderbecke
(1903-1931), the 100th anniversary of whose birth was Monday, March 10th.
The entire notion of "cool jazz" may be said to derive from Bix. 
        
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