[78-L] Experimental Electrics on Autograph Label

[David Lennick]

1921 seems early for Marsh, although it's possible..?
http://www.mainspringpress.com/marsh_electric.html

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: yves francois <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
>> Hello Al, you are correct. The Autographs at that time were electric,
>> for certain the Merrit Brunis on Autograph is electric, as are the
>> Morton's and Oliver/Morton duets. There is also a test pressing
>> from circa 1921/2 that is probably of Autograph provenance of an
>> "unknown black Chicago band" playing a wild "Muscle Shoals Blues"
>> on a Ragtime to Jazz reissue on the Timeless label (volume 2),
>> so Marsh was experimenting for a while with the electric recording process. 
> 
>  
> I don't doubt it because there were others experimenting with electrical
> recording between 1920 and 1924, but if they do not know what band it
> is, how do they date it that early?  Do you know any details?  By the
> way, there was another Chicagoian experimenting with electrical
> recording in 1921-22.  Benjamin Franklin Miessner was doing it at
> Brunswick, but no details are known other than a letter to the AES
> Journal he wrote in the 60s.  
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/17/08, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> From: simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
>> This is probably old stuff to many on our list so I
>> apologize if this has 
>> already been settled or resolved in old posts.
>> I've just run across a pencilled scrawl in my Rust
>> "Jazz Records" referring 
>> to some September 1924 recordings of Merrit Brunies and His
>> Friars Club 
>> Orchestra on the Autograph label in Chicago as being
>> electric.
>> Does anyone have any details on this?
>>
>> Al Simmons