Chuck Nessa

I have a lovely lp by Bud Freeman with him on organ.

Been playing Albert Ammons' Boogie Woogie Stomp (Decca 3386 B) for days and days as I recondition my juke box. I have a Wurlitzer 1015 inherited from my father and it needs a bunch of work. It looks something like this one:

Seemed strange to me too..

I love this sentence describing the Lunceford: This will be the first time all of these Decca sessions are to be gathered together for the first time.

Ha ha - I thought you was talking about imperial measurements! Am I /1/2 Oz? All Kiwi born and bred and raised, but 25 years in Melbourne ... still on NZ passport. Spawn of criminals at any rate.

Are we to guess which is male or female - or is this a trick question.

Yeah, do you have an air compressor like the construction guys have? Kind of hard to seal the nostrils.

How can anyone there remember?

The Webster is a wonderful collection of RCA material from Moten to Bryant to Ellington to Hampton, etc. Grab it even if you have the music other ways. I love this collection - played it last week.

Nice.

click above.

No need to contact the publisher directly. A license can be obtained online from the Harry Fox Agency.

G'bye Bear.

Chubby Jackson comes to mind.

I think he was referring to the loss of a plant about to be decommissioned.

Never heard it but the number of tunes suggest no one gets to stretch out.

How about a link so we don't have to search?

Wasn't there Greg. Just another comment on how nice the man was. Thanks Joe.

This is a music minus one date - band in NY, Anita in LA. Very fine record.

More than 50 years. That's why some folks complained their favorite 45s didn't sound right when transferred to lp or cd. Correct about the current complaint.

Never recorded in stereo AFAIK. Did Atlantic have 8 track recorders back then?

Simplest example - two track recording, the soloist wanders off mike. A take that might be otherwise discarded is saved by compressing the passage (with some gentle eq of the accompanying sounds) and the soloist seems to be in the proper perspective. It gets much more complicated with multi-tracks but drum kits can be rebalanced, etc. You can spend many hours doing this for the perfect master.

I actually do this stuff and you have now confused me about the subject. It is really simple - the compression of dynamics is a tool worth using sometimes and a tool worth ignoring other times. It is a tool. The use of the tool is what should be discussed. Simply branding something as "bad" or "good" is not helpful. We have this "blame game" stuff going on all the time and much of it is crap.

That would be a combined total.