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Billy Mayerl: Lightning Fingers (2nd. edition) - only a few copies left!
A Symposium edited by Mike Harth
Paradise Press, London (1995)
Price £13.00 inc. post UK (£15 inc. post USA and EU)
Available only from: The Billy Mayerl Society, 'Shellwood',
St Leonards Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 ORN
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This book, amazingly the first ever, was produced to meet the demand for more information about the man and his works. As well as a short biography, it includes helpful notes on the music, a complete catalogue of his compositions, and a discography. Anyone with the least interest in this fascinating figure will soon find it an indispensable guide.

Marigold: The Music of Billy Mayerl
by Peter Dickinson
Oxford University Press (1999) : includes Free CD

(Out of Print)

Peter Dickinson, composer, pianist, and writer, is an Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Keele and London. He is currently Head of Music and a Board member of the Institute of United States Studies at London University. Born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, he went to Cambridge as Organ Scholar of Queens' College and then spent three formative years in New York, initially at the Juilliard School. From this time onwards Dickinson's music has been regularly commissioned, performed, broadcast, and recorded with some of the leading international performers. Peter Dickinson's writings, apart from many articles for the leading periodicals, include the first book on Sir Lennox Berkeley (1989) and this full study of the popular pianist, composer, educator and celebrity, Billy Mayerl.
A Collection of Billy's Best Known Compositions.

Titles:
All-of-a Twist; April's Fool; Autumn Crocus; Bats in the Belfry;
Beetle in the Bottle; Eskimo Shivers; Evening Primrose; Four Aces Suite;
From a Spanish Lattice; The Harp of the Winds;Hollyhock; Honeysuckle;
Honky-Tonk; Hop-o'-my-Thumb; Jasmine; The Jazz Master; The Joker;
Look Lively; Loose Elbows; Marigold; Mignonette;
Nimble-Fingered Gentleman; Railroad Rhythm; Shallow Waters;
Song of the Fir Tree; Sweet William; Virginia Creeper; White Heather; Wistaria

EMI Music Publishing Ltd. Order Ref:14357
ISBN 0 86175 4344

The official Distributor for the Jazz Master Album is: FM Distribution Limited, Burnt Mill, Elizabeth Way, Harlow, Essex CM20 2HX, tel: 01279 828 989.
It is also available from Music Sales, or any good music shop.