![]() ![]() While playing in the Ninth Ward clubs, Domino met Billy Diamond, a local bandleader and bass player, who invited him to play in his band at the Hideaway Club in New Orleans. Domino wanted to play the piano so much that he quit school after fourth grade, and worked in a factory in order to perform in local nightclubs.Īmong Domino’s musical influences were boogie woogie piano players Meade Lux Lewis ("Boogie Woogie"), Pete Johnson ("Low Down Dog"), and Amos Milburn ("Bad, Bad Whiskey") and singers Big Joe Turner ("Low Down Dog") and Louis Jordan ("Caldonia"). His life was changed forever when his sister married Harrison Verrett, a New Orleans musician (banjo player), who taught him how to play the piano and introduced him to the music scene. His journey from a poor childhood in the Lower Ninth Ward to a key figure in rock ‘n’ roll is told using vintage performances of Domino and his band interwoven with reminiscences of fellow architects of rock ‘n’ roll.Īmong those interviewed are producer/songwriter/bandleader and longtime collaborator Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote and produced most of Domino’s hits J&M studio owner, engineer and producer Cosimo Matassa, who was involved in creating rock ‘n’ roll recordings by Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Lloyd Price and many others and saxophonist Herb Hardesty, a mainstay of both Domino’s and Bartholomew's bands.Īs a child, Domino liked to tinker on the family piano. He was the last of eight Domino children and the only one of his siblings born in New Orleans. Visit to order a DVD of AMERICAN MASTERS "Fats Domino And The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll."įats Domino was born Antoine Domino, Jr.
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