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[Eulipian]

Well before the disco hits, she was a pretty good jazz singer.

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This is a fantastic record I got for a couple bucks at the friends of the library sale. Just outstanding voice.

BTW-are you digitizing your vinyl or just playing with the ADI-2?

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

This is a fantastic record I got for a couple bucks at the friends of the library sale. Just outstanding voice.

BTW-are you digitizing your vinyl or just playing with the ADI-2?

I haven’t spun a record in ages. My collection of about 1,000 mostly jazz LPs gathers dust these days. I need to sell them, but…

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Timcognito]

I haven’t spun a record in ages. My collection of about 1,000 mostly jazz LPs gathers dust these days. I need to sell them, but…

Ditto, even the ones that didn't make it to CDs. Could make a fortune on Ebay with the "vinyl" craze so over blown.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[JEFPAC]

Check out On Prestige by Rudy Van Gelder on Amazon Music

https://music.amazon.fr/albums/B0DLL4FGWP?ref=dm_sh_AulpipkRUwAR5JgILkP0kSvsj

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Timcognito]

As a fan of Louis Armstrong, especially his early Hot Five and Hot Seven bands material, I was enthralled when I recently came across the a wonderful review and historical presentation By Joseph W. Washek;

Centennial King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

Deluxe Boxset Reissue of Historic Recordings

trackingangle.com

I was very pleased to find the album on Qobuz. Even if one is not that keen on the music or familiar with the birth and early foundations of jazz, one might enjoy the depth that Mr. Washek reviews and explains where and how Jazz was incubated in the first half dozen paragraphs of this article. Later he goes in to detail about how these recordings were made without electricity and how these extremely rare recordings where resurrected. If you find it as fascinating as I did then there is a must see documentary on Gennett records where many of the recordings were produced, that I also stumbled on earlier this year.

WTIU Documentaries | The Music Makers of Gennett Records | PBS

The unlikely story of the Gennett Studios, where many great artists first recorded.

www.pbs.org

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Soandso]

As a fan of Louis Armstrong, especially his early Hot Five and Hot Seven bands ...

"Hot" was the early popular word for the playing style at venues of what we now think of as Jazz music. Playing music "hot" got people hot dancing - it wasn't at that time ever a finger snapping "cool" style performance. Early jazz incubating musicians were hired and expected to have a song list of popular favorite songs, so some took the stage opportunity in their late set(s) to play "hot". The way this innovative music snuck into the program apparently got women animated and up on the floor all "hot" to dance was something new. As demand (women included) for so-called "hot" music developed then musicians could get paid for playing just this early jazz music. [Note: for brevity I'm skipping the nuances of what I'll call generically New Orleans proto-jazz, where/what Louis Armstrong grew up amongst.]

Here are my favorite Louis Armstrong Hot Five/Seven recordings:
Skid-Dat-De-Dat, Potato Head Blues, Wild Man Blues, Gut Bucket Blues, Melancholy and Muggles (which was incidentally musician slang for marijuana). Lest it be forgotten as part of that early jazz recording era Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five ensemble also left us the excellent song Tight Like This.

 

[Soandso]

... I'm skipping the nuances of what I'll call generically New Orleans proto-jazz ....

One historical factor I feel might be of interest is that after the American Civil War a lot of Union Army soldiers were de-mobilized from military service in the port city of New Orleans. Among them were northern states' regimental bands whose musicians mustered for boarding ships homeward bound and left behind what they'd played. Thus an uncommon (for the era) number of musical instruments entered the New Orleans second hand market(s) increasing availability for street (ex: funeral marching) and venue (ex: picnic) players. Remember how early Jazz bands and recordings had tuba players in the group - that was such a factor of access. Old banjos left by those shipping out even saw the banjo soundboards repurposed as horizontal (snare) drums to add along to bulky vertical drums (it was considered a boasting honor for kids following New Orleans parades to carry home a tired musician's heavy vertical drum).

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

RIP, Mr Jones

 

[ahofer]

The teaser is the usual overstatement, but this has always been one of my favorite tracks. Lyle Mays' (RIP) solo is great as well.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[ahofer]

RIP, Mr Jones

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What are you running for display there?

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

What are you running for display there?

This on a Pi, but modified to get metadata from the PrestoMusic streamer (work in progress).

 

[Timcognito]

He was great band leader, engineered Michael Jackson's comeback and maybe the best version of Killer Joe. RIP

 

[Ralph_Cramden]