[78-L] Gennett Records ;)

[yves francois]

Geoffrey
   a round of cognac for you Al and I - and sorry, but I dropped a Victor test while reading this - think it was a Goldkette from 1927 w Bix - was it "Play It Red" or "Stampede" (oh well, guess I will have to listen to the Savoy Bearcats version instead)- oh, it has to be on SOME reissue ... LOL

--- On Mon, 1/25/10, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> Subject: [78-L] Gennett Records
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 1:22 PM
> 
> I can empathize with Al Simmons: It’s frustrating to
> misplace a tape 
> you know you have. That particular one has made the
> collector rounds on 
> five continents and god knows what generation it’s in
> now. I hear two 
> original copies were made. One went to Jean Goldkette’s
> housekeeper, 
> Madeline; the second was buried as part of the foundation
> of the new 
> Greystone Bus Building in 1933. Greystone buses were the
> first in the 
> nation to be completely audioized, with personal headsets
> for every 
> passenger. As for Buddy Bolden, the best evidence of what
> he may have 
> sounded like is the recording by Jack Purvis on American
> Odeon, 
> “Copyin’ Buddy.” My belief is that Bolden did not
> record himself 
> playing trumpet but reciting the Lord’s Prayer. I also
> believe this 
> inspired Jelly Roll Morton to write the tune “I Thought I
> heard Buddy 
> Bolden Say.” The fact Jelly Roll used “I thought” is
> indicative that he 
> was hard of hearing.
> Geoffrey Wheeler
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