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  19. What 78 are you spinning right now ?

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    6 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

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    Young Louis Armstrong as sideman (1924-25) tonight;

    Fletcher Henderson - How Come You Do Me Like You Do / New Orleans Jazz Band - Copenhagen (Regal)
    Fletcher Henderson - My Rose Marie / (Sam) Lanin's Arcadians - Some Other Day (Silvertone)
    Maggie Jones - Good Time Flat Blues / Screamin' the Blues (Columbia)
    Bessie Smith - Nashville Woman's Blues / I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle (Columbia)
    Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Of All the Wrongs You've Done to Me / Everybody Loves My Baby (Okeh)

    Note on the flip sides of the Hendersons: the New Orleans Jazz Band has at least one New Orleanian - clarinetist Sidney Arodin. He's excellent here, and the record is interesting as an early example of "jazz repertory" - it copies the Bix/Wolverines recording of "Copenhagen" as closely as it can. The Sam Lanin side ain't such a much, despite some good musicians in the band.

    As for young Louis Armstrong, he's stunning on all these sides. Sometimes I look at all my 78s and think, "This is madness." At other times, as I spin them, I feel incredibly fortunate. Tonight is one of those times.

    A fine madness.

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