In 1956 producer Lyle Griffin released a two-sided single record by the comedian
and monologist Richard "Lord" Buckley under the futuristic title
"Flight of The Saucer". Having become a cult record long since, this early
predecessor of the later 'rap' style at least partly was a recycled version of a
recording, which had already been made by Griffin in late 1946, only that
the 'flying object' then had not been the saucer but the vout bug. Actually
flying on this older record was legendary jazz pianist Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa,
for whom "Flight of The Vout Bug" - suggesting at least verbally
some kind of analogy to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Bumble Bee" - had been written
as a miniature concertino for piano and big band. Marmarosa certainly
was not unknown then, nor is he today. Yet his many 'flights' on records
or transcriptions from the 1940s to the 1960s - including some of Slim
Gaillard's humorous excursions into the language of "Vout" - have never
been completely documented in a comprehensive and chronological catalogue,
which is the task the authors have set themselves with the present
publication. The approach to this task is twofold: on one side is a detailed
discographical listing of the pianist's known recorded performances and
on the other an interpretative survey, which seeks to guide the listener's
ear to some of the intrinsic artistic values of Marmarosa's ever-beautiful
and highly personal piano style.

This is the never before published discography and history of a legendary performer.