[78-L] Casa Loma "White Jazz"

[Cary Ginell]

It's on an import CD, "Casa Loma Orchestra" on Best of Jazz 4062
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:51:41 +0100
> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Casa Loma "White Jazz"
> 
> On 20/08/12 21:06, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> > I just bought a V+ condition copy of the Casa Loma Orchestra doing
> > White Jazz b/w Blue Jazz (Br 6611). From the very beginning of the White
> > Jazz cut it sounds like the horns are distorting - breaking up at the
> > upper end of the range. Could it be that the master was cut too hot? But
> > the drums sound great throughout!
> > I've also heard this kind of breakup on records that have been played
> > with worn steel needles.
> > If it wasn't recorded as late as it was (1931) I'd have thought it was
> > made by their Light Ray process. Gah.
> > What gives? Are other pressings just as bad?
> > Mal
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> I have it on English Br 01144 and, yes, there is distortion, but it 
> seems to me to be more general. There is some fuzziness throughout, not 
> just on the brass. I'll see if I have it on an LP reissue--see how that 
> fares.
> 
> Julian Vein
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