CHARLEY SKEETE'S ORCH., 'Deep Henderson', take B, 8 June 1926. скачать в хорошем качестве

CHARLEY SKEETE'S ORCH., 'Deep Henderson', take B, 8 June 1926.

HARLEM VISITS EDISON! - one of the rare occasions that an Afro-American jazz group were recorded for the pre-electric Diamond Discs, and a session over which Edison's 'musical selections committee' was deeply divided. The jazz historian K-B Rau draws attention to notes held in Edison's West Orange library archives: “Charlie Skeete: This band is entered in the Payments Ledger as Charlie Skeetes [sic] and his Hot Spillers. Although these two sides were passed and issued, at least two members of the Selection Committee didn´t entirely approve. In reviewing Tampeekoe, a Mr. Shearman stated: "Sounds like a jumble of music, not much rhythm". His colleague Mr. Ehricke declared: "Lacks some sort of a tune or a melody. Might pass as a novelty". Small wonder so few real jazz items got out from the Edison studios!” Charlie Skeete's whole recorded output consists of this one double-sided Edison disc, coupled with the tune 'Tampeekoe'. I heard my late bandleader friend Peter Milley and his Cairo Club Orchestra play this arrangement many times over forty years, consequently I know the way the Edison audio SHOULD sound using instruments of the appropriate vintage. That, and comparing Milley's recorded audio spectrum with the spectrum measured off the Skeete disc from 1926 allowed me to match and restore this vintage audio using appropriate EQ. I think the result is remarkably good for a pre-electric recording cut a century ago, and I dedicate the track to Peter Milley's memory.