Phonograph records
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The aural time traveler
Some years back my musicologist friend introduced me to the charming world of gramophones. (A brief history may be in order: before there were iPods and YouTube, there were CDs; before that, there were vinyl records, still very much in vogue among hipsters today; and before that – from roughly 1895 to 1950 – there… Continue reading
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“Free, single, disengaged”
The Logan Gramophone Society met recently and uncovered this neglected gem from Mamie Smith and her Jazz Band (Okeh Records): Continue reading
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Sabre Dance Boogie
By Freddy Martin and his orchestra. Continue reading
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Gramophone heaven
Probably only 80% of the 10,000 vintage phonograph records at the Vintage Music Company in Minneapolis have been meticulously organized by genre, group, condition, year, etc. The rest are in stacks in the floor. Still, we were able to find some records we couldn’t live without, including Jelly Roll Morton’s “Big Lip Blues” and Rosetta… Continue reading
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Trying to impress the dog
Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Chili Peppers, “Ponchatrain Blues Fox Trot,” 1930. Continue reading
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And a recent arrival from Israel …
Edith Piaf, “La Vie en Rose,” 1946. Continue reading
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Newly arrived from Argentina…
… is my new 78 rpm phonograph record, a 1937 recording of The Hot Club of Paris (including Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelly) performing “Miss Annabelle Lee,” a foxtrot. Enjoy! Continue reading
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