PHIL NAPOLEON'S ORCH.: 'Clarinet Marmalade', Take 'A', 22 March 1927. скачать в хорошем качестве

PHIL NAPOLEON'S ORCH.: 'Clarinet Marmalade', Take 'A', 22 March 1927.

ONE OF THE LAST PRE-ELECTRIC RECORDINGS made by Edison's Fifth Avenue studio in New York, 22 March 1927 (they switched to electrical recording three months later). "Clarinet Marmalade" was a tune made popular by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, and recorded by them for Victor Records in 1918. Napoleon's 'cover version' is considerably more slick and carefully constructed in orchestration. Phil's band had recorded the same track seven week's earlier for Victor Records - though the Victor version is shorter and with less improv. Phil Napoleon (real name Filippo Napoli, 1901 - 1990), according to wikipedia, "was an early jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Boston, Massachusetts. Ron Wynn observed that Napoleon "was a competent, though unimaginative trumpeter whose greatest value was the many recording sessions he led that helped increase jazz's popularity in the mid-1920s." Richard Cook and Brian Morton, writing for The Penguin Guide to Jazz, refer to Napoleon as "a genuine pioneer" whose playing was "profoundly influential on men such as Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke." "Napoleon began with classical training, and was performing publicly by age five. In the 1910s, he was one of the first musicians in the northeastern United States to embrace the new "jass" style brought to that part of the country by musicians from New Orleans, Louisiana. With pianist Frank Signorelli he formed the group "The Original Memphis Five" in 1917. He became one of the most sought after trumpeters of the 1920s. The group were very prolific, one of the most prolific in New York City at the time. Napoleon's 1927 version of "Clarinet Marmalade" was a particular success. During the 1930s, Napoleon mainly worked as a session trumpeter, working in the RCA Radio Orchestra in the early 1930s." For this Edison session in 1927, Phil Napoleon's Orchestra consisted of (according to Rust): Phil Napoleon - trumpet and director. Warren Hookway or John Asevedo - 2nd trumpet. Ted Raph - trombone. Carroll Thorne, Carl Irish & Frank Ward - reeds. Frank Vigneau - piano. Dave Skine - banjo. Al Kunze - brass bass. Charlie Jondro - drums. The recording was equalised, using a spectral response 'waterfall' graph of the disc's output, via comparison and matching (using digital graphic & parametric EQ) to the spectral content of a recent recording played by a similar group. Rumble was reduced to a minimum by auto-correlation via analysis of the noise content of an unmodulated section of disc track below 250 Hz.