[78-L] Columbia audio quality, was Re: Miles Davis etc [was Thelonious Monk [was Leonard

[Royal Pemberton]

RR was THE studio back then.  AFAIK records from Woody Herman's 'Four
brothers' and Gene Autry's 'Rudolph', Henry Mancini's first PETER GUNN LP
and even 'Jailhouse Rock' by Elvis were all made there.

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Dan Van Landingham <
danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What I know of Radio Recorders is confined to some of the musicians who
> recorded there in or around
> 1946 such as Skeets Herfurt who did a few dates with Artie Shaw in July of
> that year as well as Earle
> Spencer from that same year.The sound was great.I only remember Westminster
> for their classical music
> albums.I had a few of the ones they did after ABC took them over.Did
> Ellington record at Radio Recorders when he was on Musicraft in 1946?I have
> a number of them on several inexpensive LPs that
> were issued on Everest's Folk/Jazz series.The Artie Shaw stuff from October
> of 1945 and June of 1946
> came out on Galaxy,Golden Tone as well as some inexpensive MGM issues in
> the fifties.I have a number
> of those.As I understand it,MGM bought Musicraft around 1949 and I saw some
> MGM 78s of the stuff
> he had recorded for Musicraft.I'd have to go out into my shed and dig up
> some of the others I bought
> over the course of several years.Black and White recorded at Radio
> Recorders as did several others.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 5:25:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Columbia audio quality, was Re: Miles Davis etc [was
>  Thelonious Monk [was Leonard
>
> Remember when Westminster had a pop/jazz catalog? Several of those albums
> were very well recorded. And I absolutely agree about the Vanguards. As I
> remember, they were often cited as the best recorded jazz albums on the
> market.
>
> I admit I am a sucker for Radio Recorders from the late '50s. Every session
> I've heard recorded there is just beautiful to listen to. Does anyone have
> any information about their operation? How many studios? What equipment did
> they use? When did they close up operation?
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> > > In discussing recording preferences, Julian Vein comments “Many of E,D,
> > > Nunn's Audiophiles. The Columbia Buck Clayton Jam Sessions.
> > > The French Black & Blue label.”
> > >
> > > I have quite a number of Audiophiles and think their sound quality
> > > excellent. In addition to Contemporary, Pacific Jazz, and the Clayton
> > > Columbias, there are the many fine jazz albums produced by Vanguard
> > > that feature Clayton, Ruby Braff, Vic Dickenson, Sir Charles Thompson,
> > > etc. Ed Beach used to dip into them for his programs on Riverside
> > > radio.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > I think it was a case of simple mic'ing. It's when van Gelder introduced
> > the mixing console that things started to go wrong.
> >
> >      Julian Vein
> >
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