[78-L] RRe: question for dance band experts

[James Tennyson]

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> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:10:19 +0000
> From: david.diehl at hensteeth.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] question for dance band experts
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I might have missed mention of this in a previous post, so if so forgive me, 
.but one thing that in the acoustic era the one big difference between the 
recordings and they way they played on the dance stand was the use of the 
drums.  Acoustic sides rarely use the full drum kit. Percussion was reduced 
to the cymbal crash and the chinese block which stood in for the snare drum. 
Anything else muddied the reproduction. If you want to hear an " acoustic " 
era dance band as they played during gigs , listen to that Youtube vid of 
Ben Bernie playing for the early de Forest Photophone short in 1925. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAExrFCVVT0  and if you turn up your bass you 
can actually hear the drummer.  He's still  playing quietly but he's there . 
The other recording that really does show the difference is that HMV Victor 
demonstration disc side of Jack Shilkret doing You and on both sides: once 
acoustic and one electric. In the electrical version they let the percussion 
go wild. And in a way  they didn't allow on most early electric sides 
either. >
> The New Orleans Rhythm Kings insisted that bassist Steve Brown participate 
> in their Gennett recordings even though the instrument couldn't actually 
> be recorded just to keep the feel of the live performance

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> From: Doug Pomeroy [mailto:audiofixer at verizon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 06:04 PM
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> Don't forget, a majority of the New Orleans jazz bands used string 
> bass.Buddy Bolden, Sam Morgan, Jelly Roll Morton, many others.> > I doubt 
> that it would have occurred to anyone to use a bass in the 20s. The > 
> guitar wasn't even coming into use yet and banjos were still popular. If 
> you > couldn't dance to it or march to it, why bother?> > dlDoug 
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