[78-L] Length of jazz recordings

[David Lennick]

Ellington did two flips in the late 20s and early 30s, SING SING SING was a 9 
minute two-sider, Blue Note recorded a 4-part MEADE LUX LEWIS set called "The 
Blues" in (I think) 1939, Jerry Newman recorded Charlie Christian live and 
issued the recordings on Vox 78s and then on his own Esoteric label, Granz put 
out a few volumes of JATP well before the lp era...

dl

On 7/9/2013 6:39 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Wasn't there a few Commodore 78s in the early 1940s that were part 1/part
> 2?  Or did those records simply take a break at where they knew they were
> running out of time on a 12" side?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>  wrote:
>
>> What were the first labels to break the pattern of limiting jazz
>> recordings to three minutes, the standard length for 78 rpm singles? Once
>> the LP was introduced, the technology was there to include longer versions
>> of songs, but many still stuck to the three-minute barrier, possibly hoping
>> that jazz records would cross over and be marketed as singles to the record
>> buying public. I'm guessing Clef and Prestige were the first - (Granz
>> through his JATP concert recordings). Was anyone else recording longer
>> tracks on a regular basis before these two labels? And I'm not talking abou
>> 12-inch singles. I'm talking about 8-10 minute tracks that allow the
>> performers to solo for two to three choruses or more at a time, not just an
>> eight-or-sixteen bar solo.
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>> originjazz at aol.com