Comments on: WINIFRED ATWELL - “Let’s Have Another Party”

By: rosie

rosie — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:59:38 +0000

The first black performer to top the UK charts?

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:28:07 +0000

I always love playing Atwell at Popular (Poor People Of Paris usual, but this one maybe next time on the 10th). I think what Tom says about joyous noise comes right through all of her playing, and it is about the only artist I demonically air piano to.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:35:19 +0000

I said this originally on Haloscan, but Joe Meek was in the control booth engineering (thus the guitar drop-in), so a prescient last remark there.

Additionally B Watson has reminded me that Atwell was the pop parallel to John Cage in terms of using prepared pianos (or her “Other Piano” as she called it, i.e. the rickety pub upright) remembering that Cage’s piano pieces were originally intended for dancing etc.