Pork and Beans played by Donald Lambert on IAJRC 23 "Meet the Lamb"

Here's the first track on the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC) LP 23, Donald Lambert playing Luckey Roberts' classic "Pork and Beans". According to the liner notes, this was recorded in Wallace's Hill Tavern, West Orange, NJ, on August 21, 1961. Lambert plays it in the rather unusual key (for anybody but him) of F# minor, then F#(=Gb) major for the trio. The track on the LP seemed a little high-pitched (no way Lambert played it in G minor/G major), so I slowed it down a little bit to get it to the right key.

[@KawhackitaRag]

I LOVE the way he puts "early 30s Big band horns" in the right hand at beginning of the interlude!

[@EPIGNOSIS777]

Donald Lambert and Art Tatum are the greatest musicians of all time. Nobody will ever touch touch them.

[@philippevinot4798]

la main gauche !!!! quelle régularité et quelle force !!! un modèle de stride

[@5riverboat]

My favorite version of this classic early stride piece....I actually prefer it to the composer's version! Very clean and genuinely Harlemesque

[@stridedude]

Lamb was unparalleled, No snap, however, guys ......

[@chrisSkordPiano]

Amazing

[@andrewbarrett1537]

The tune really starts at 0:23

[@juniperwoodgreen4090]

I'd rather play like this than like Tatum anyday...

[@robinpratt1516]

Sad they didn't bother to tune the piano.

[@chrisSkordPiano]

Robin Pratt they didn’t used to care they could play on a broken piano and still make it sound nice 👍

[@stridedude]

Freshly painted.

[@Aaron-md2eo]

Is that a reference go an Oscar Peterson interview?

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I have numerous home recordings of Lambert at Wallace's and the piano's tuning and condition vary widely from session to session. It sounds pretty good in some takes. *reportedly* it was a Knabe upright, but I'm not 100% positive of this. I hope someone else knows for sure. I would imagine that the bar didn't make a whole lot of money and the owner kept it tuned as much as they could afford (once a year?).

[@iai3n]

@@andrewbarrett1537 I first heard about the Lambert home recordings from Mike Lipskin about 10 years ago. How do one come by a copy?!