Re: [ARSCLIST] King Oliver/Louis Armstrong Gennett recordings

[Sam Brylawski <goodlistening@xxxxxxxxx>]

As Dick Spottswood reminded us earlier this week, listen to Rob
Bamberger's show, Hot Jazz Saturday Night at wamu.org. It's archived
for three more days. His show this week is on the new Archeophone set,
inc. interviews with its producer/engineers. They did a remarkable
job, samples of which you'll hear.
Sam

On 6/1/07, Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Was anyone ever able to use digital tools and make those recordings anything
> approaching decent sounding? All I have is the Book of the Month Club
> reissue of the the Milestone LP produced by Orrin Keepnews and remastered
> for BOMC at Fantasy in 1974. The sound quality is so poor that I consider it
> unlistenable. I understand the limitations of the original source material
> but wonder if any digi-magic was later invented that improved the listening
> experience at all?
>
> The awful-sounding Gennett records were made in 1923. Just 2 years later,
> Okeh made some decent-sounding Armstrong Hot Fives records in Chicago. I
> have those on a Columbia reissue LP "The Louis Armstrong Story Vol 1", I
> seem to have a very late (70s) pressing of this record, which the notes
> indicate was issued at the dawn of the LP era, so back in the late 40's the
> Columbia engineers must have done disk-to-disk transfers, I would guess from
> Okeh metal parts.
>
> -- Tom Fine