[78-L] Self-recording

[David Lennick]

CBC engineers might have had a hand in recording the Massey Hall Concert, or at 
least setting up mikes, since the opening act was broadcast (don't think the 
concert was, though). That concert actually had very low attendance and was the 
same night as the Marciano-Walcott fight and Dizzy kept leaving the stage to 
watch the fight. Obviously Mingus didn't like the balance because he overdubbed 
later.

dl

yves francois wrote:
>    Julian
>      You record the sound check before the concert and hear it to see if it is not distorting or too soft (and if you are smart you put the mike away from the band about 2 to 3 meters and closest to the softest instrument). Very common for musicians to record themselves on a gig (Franz Jackson used to record his band and issued 2 albums from these reel to reel tapes, later he purchased from me a small stereo cassette machine I in the early 80's for a while). I have a dub of a tape of Paul Bascomb's band live in circa 1955/6 (should be the year when Betty Carter recorded "Frenesi" for Columbia, the band is playing the same arrangement behind her), couple good blues,and a really stagy but nice, "Taboo", but too bad it was recorded next to Marshall Thompson's kit, it's mostly drums, and almost no vocals or announcing from the pa of the lounge (but it was made by him for him to work on the material better), BTY the band is less jazz oriented than on the
>  United and Parrot 78's I must be sorry to report (too bad, Roxelle Claxton, John Avant, Malachi Favors and Sonny Cohn were all members of Paul's band on this tape).
> 
> Yves Francois
> 
> --- On Sat, 1/24/09, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> Subject: [78-L] Self-recording
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 3:03 PM
>> In the tape age some jazz musicians recorded their own
>> performances. 
>> Charlie Mingus (Massey Hall concert, 1953) and Lennie
>> Tristano come to 
>> mind. How did they manage to do this whilst playing. In
>> other words, who 
>> kept their eyes on the VU meter? And, with Tristano being
>> blind, how did 
>> he manage it? Did they set a "safe" level before
>> starting?
>>
>>       Julian Vein
>>