[78-L] Live recordings in the 1930's (was Jack Jackson date)

[Kristjan Saag]

There's an album with those 1934 "Dorchester" recordings (Jack Jackson & 
His Orchestra with Alberta Hunter) which is advertised as actually being 
recorded in the hotel:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1027357/a/Legendary+Alberta+Hunter%3A+%2734+London+Sessions.htm
Chris Albertson has written the liner notes. I don't have the album - if 
anyone has, it'd be interesting to know if he gives more details about 
the recordings.
Kristjan


simmonssomer skrev 2011-01-23 02:19:
> You're right about those other bands Kristjan. But just above the first
> session of Jackson'd band in
> Rust's "Jazz Records" Rust made a notation... "The following records by this
> orchestra from the Dorchester Hotel, London .............
> Did that mean they were recorded at the Dorchester or that the band was
> "from the Dorchester"' as it normally played there.
> Language...language!
>
> Al S.
>
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>> J. E. Knox wrote:
>>> Victor 25042-B's label states "at the Dorchester Hotel, London" but I
>>> believe that just refers to Jackson's "home base" at the time, not
>>> that the track was recorded there. Or was it?!
>>> ---
>> You're quite right. One should be careful to assume, from this type of
>> orchestra name on the record label, that the recordings were done on
>> location.
>> For instance: Ambrose's band in the early 1930's was named "Ambrose&
>> His Orchestra at the May Fair Hotel, London", but, according to Rust&
>> Forbes' British Dance Bands Discography,  some of their recordings were
>> made in the Small Queen's Hall, others in the Kingsway Hall etc.. The
>> rest have just "London" as location, which, according to a note Rust
>> makes for the Hylton band, means the Abbey Road studios (for Gramophone
>> Co recordings) from November 1931.
>> Roy Fox's band around 1931-1932 was labelled "Roy Fox and his Band at
>> the Monseigneur Restaurant, London" on record, but recorded some of its
>> titles in Chelsea Town Hall. For the rest of the recordings Rust&
>> Forbes have just "London", which, in this case, probably means the Decca
>> studios in Kings Road.
>> Does anyone know how often actual live recordings of dance band music,
>> for record release, were made in those years? And I don't mean later
>> issues of broadcast recordings, made in studio over wire, but recordings
>> actually cut on location.
>> Kristjan
>>
>>
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