[78-L] fwd: Buddy Bolden cylinder found

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Has anyone analyzed Buddy's chamber pot to see if it retained
> any vibrations? 
> One never knows.  dl

That might answer the question of how jazz might have evolved from
chamber music.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

-------- Original Message --------
On 4/1/2013 3:36 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> As we all know Jenny Lind visited New Orleans in 1851 for a series of
> concertperformances at the St Charles Theatre, and stayed in one of the
> newly erected Pontalba buildings(5 St Peter Street) near the river.
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micaela_Almonester,_Baroness_de_Pontalba
>
> Buddy Bolden wasn't born yet, but his grandfather worked as a porterfor
> the Baroness Pontalba at the time, and is reported to have met Jenny
> Lind and even heard her practising in her apartment. This made a deep
> impact on Mr Bolden,something he kept telling both his son and grandson
> about all his life. Around 1871 Buddy Bolden's father also became a
> regular visitor to the New Orleans opera houses.
> See
> http://books.google.se/books?id=3Mw4nQMvDWoC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=%22jenny+lind%22+%22new+orleans%22+1851&source=bl&ots=GPhEnEcDtS&sig=gFNqLr_ILz87QnlHQ4P8O0kqSnA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ntNZUfyECOSE4gTiw4H4BQ&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22jenny%20lind%22%20%22new%20orleans%22%201851&f=false
> for a drawing showing a Negro audience at the French Opera House in New
> Orleans in the late 19th century.
>
> As an homage to the Swedish Nightingale, who brought music to the Bolden
> family, Buddy Bolden often played a Swedish Folk tune on his cornet,
> actually the same song Jenny Lindsang at St Charles': "The herdsman's
> song".
> In opera-crazy New Orleans this was a given success.
> See:
> http://archive.org/stream/jennylindinameri017072mbp/jennylindinameri017072mbp_djvu.txt
>
> Bolden's "lost recording" most certainly is a version of "The Herdsman's
> Song"- his deeply emotional interpretation having led some listeners to
> even think they heard Jenny Lind sing.
> Kristjan
>
>
> On 2013-04-01 17:38, Bud Black wrote:
>> Actually, the vocal sounds a bit like Jenny Lind.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2013, at 10:24 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> No, the one they found was the instrumental version for German issue.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 4/1/2013 9:46 AM, L78rpm at aol.com wrote:
>>>> Does it have a vocal chorus by Billy Murray?
>>>>
>>>> pc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In a message dated 4/1/2013 9:13:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>>>>
>>>> On 4/1/2013 7:31 AM, Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> <http://jazzpromoservices.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3186fe64133adb244b1010be2&id=450edf8b72&e=dce4828319>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At least according to author Nicholas Christopher's new novel "_Tiger
>>>> Rag
>>>>>
>>>> <http://jazzpromoservices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3186fe64133adb244b1010be2&id=c2271b2362&e=dce4828319>_".
>>>>> Set in New Orleans in the early 1900s "Tiger Rag" tells the story of
>>>> Charles
>>>>> "Buddy" Bolden and his long lost cylinders, the holy grail of jazz
>>>> recordings.
>>>>> Told through the eyes of former bandmates the story jumps like a great
>>>> jazz
>>>>> band riffing on everything from life in the Big Easy to present day
>>>> America
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>>>> these
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>>>>> Jim Eigo
>>>>> Warwick NY
>>>>>
>>>>>
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