[78-L] How well did they do it.

[soundthink at aol.com]

When I was in New York recently, I saw Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks perform at Club Cache. The musicians are all seasoned studio performers,?most play on period instruments, and the group uses original charts - for me, that's as close as I will get to hearing what a '20s jazz/dance band might have sounded like.

Cary Ginell


-----Original Message-----
From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
To: 78-L at 78online.com
Sent: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 2:42 pm
Subject: [78-L] How well did they do it.



?I've been thinking about exactly how accurately recordings were able to capture 
the sounds of the 20s, over 80 years ago.?? It's almost impossible to compare a 
recording with the original sound.? Any singers which were around then who might 
still be here certainly don't have the same voice.? Orchestras develop over the 
years and don't sound like they did 80 years ago.? I don't think any concert 
hall or recording studio has remained unchanged for that time.? Even if we could 
find instruments which were used on recordings then, the artists are all gone 
and the instruments also change with time.? One may find a pipe organ that 
hasn't been modified in 80 years but I can't think of one which was recorded 
back then which might still sound the same - Temple church was bombed in WWII, 
Royal Albert Hall's organ and acoustics have changed drastically since then.? I 
don't know if Mark Andrews', Jesse Crawford's?or Lew White's organs are still 
around.?
 Choruses and choirs, of course are constantly changing.?

What brought this thought to mind was that I was listening to records the other 
day recorded in 1927 which, I believe, are unique in that they are probably a 
few of the only recordings which can be compared today the their original 
source.? Those are the 5 Victor sides which are?recordings of the Carillon, (to 
avoid the word "Biels),?at the Victory Tower, Ottawa, (now the Peace Tower).? 
I've heard that Carillon many times and it's interesting to compare the 
recordings to the sound of the Carillon.

db

P.S. as soon as I finished this letter I imagined some mention of Herbert Von 
Carillon, so I'm glad I got that out of the way
_______________________________________________
78-L mailing list
78-L at klickitat.78online.com
http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l