[78-L] Garage Sale Find - Disc New York 12" 78 rpm Record

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

Inigo,

Blue Star was Eddie Barclay's first jazz label.

The M3 numbers mean that your record was pressed in October 1948.

The PART prefix means "Particulier" i.e. outside job, not part of the 
I.M.E. Pathé-Marconi group (forget EMI and Marconiphone, it's not 
relevant).

Later PART was replaced by BARC for recordings that came from the 
Barclay group of labels.

"Broadway" was a store on the sunny side of the Champs-Elysées, selling 
luxury luggage and record players (they were the first to introduce 
16rpm players and records in France).

BC

>
> I. Cubillo wrote:
>> Hi! I'm scarcely buying records now... (my collection has reached 
>> almost
>> 5,000 78s, too big for a home in a flat). But sometimes I go chasing 
>> outta
>> dere. In my last round I found, at a local store, a good jazz 
>> collection,
>> maybe 300-400 78s. I bought 20 or so, and among them was one of those 
>> Baby
>> Dodds drum solos, in a french pressing, black label named Blue Star, a
>> product pressed by EMI France (the Marconiphone affair) with those M3
>> control numbers. Never have seen one of those before.
>>
>> Label states:
>>
>> BLUE STAR - Made in France
>> BS no. 95 (A/B)
>> Serie Dixieland - Circle Series
>> DRUM IMPROVISATION no. 1 (Baby Dodds)
>> Baby Dodds, solo drums.
>> Supervised by Rudy Blesh
>> Matrix NY-4, control numbers PART 6244 and M3-116764.
>>
>> The other side is:
>>
>> Wolverine Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)
>> Baby Dodds Trio (Baby Dodds, drums - Albert Nicholas, clarinet - Don 
>> Ewell,
>> piano)
>> Supervised by Rudy Blesh
>> Matrix NY-1A, control numbers PART 6242 and M3-116762.
>>
>> Nice record. It has a dealer sticker from BROADWAY (79 Champs 
>> Élysées).
>>
>> Wondering if someone can put some light on the recording dates, 
>> original
>> issue, etc.;  also those control numbers PART 6244 etc., that I've 
>> seen also
>> on other frenchies. Are there Capitol numbers?
>>
>> Inigo
>> -------------
> Here is the whole session (from Lord 4.4):
>
> Baby Dodds
> Albert Nicholas (cl) Don Ewell (p) Baby Dodds (d) solo on (1)
> New Orleans, January 6, 1946
> NY-1A    Wolverine blues    Circle 1001, GHB 50, Riv RLP12-216
> NY-2    Buddy Bolden's blues           1039,    -       -         ,
> Concert Hall
>          (Eu)J1354, Monkey (F)MY40030
> NY-3    Albert's blues    Circle 1002, GHB 50, Riv RLP12-216, Concert 
> Hall
>          (Eu)J1354, Monkey (F)MY40030
> NY-4    Drum improvisation (no 1)    Circle 1001, GHB 50
> NY-5    Drum improvisation (no 2)           1039,    -
> Note: GHB 50 entitled "Jazz a la Creole".
>
> Raben contains more issues, including the Blue Star.
>
>
>       Julian Vein
>
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