"Crazy Quilt" B. A. Rolfe and His Palais D'or Orchestra (Edison, 1927) скачать в хорошем качестве

"Crazy Quilt" B. A. Rolfe and His Palais D'or Orchestra (Edison, 1927)

B. A. Rolfe, t, dir: poss. Pete Capodiferro or Vina Bono, and Frank Korminsky or Joe Lindwurm, t / poss. H. Green, Charles Harris, or Dave Boyd, tb / poss. Fred Hartman and another, cl, as / poss. Lucien Smith or Harold van Emburgh, cl, ts / posss. Walter Edelstein, Billy Artz, Enric Madriguera, Fritz Forsch, Harry Salter or Pete Eisenberg, vn / Milt Rettenberg, p / poss. Tony Colluci, bj / poss. Gus Helleberg, John Helleberg, or Cy Harris, bb / poss. Fred Albright or William Dorn, d. Edison Recording Studios, Knickerbocker Building (16th St. and 5th Ave.) New York, NY 29 June 1926 11076 “Crazy Quilt” (Paul Van Loan) Ed 51790 Transferred with 3.0ML lateral stylus via VM95SP cartridge and Audiotechnica AT-LP120 Turntable. Declicked and given light EQ by Colin Hancock. Discs from Colin Hancock Collection. Discographical Information from Rust’s JRR, Johnson-Shirley’s ADBORAF, DAHR, Radio Digest, Ralph Wondrasheck, Javier Soria Laso, Barbara Effros, Mark Berresford, and Colin Hancock. Trumpeter B. A. Rolfe had a fascinating life. Born Benjamin Arthur Rolfe in 1879 in the tiny upstate New York town of Brasher Falls, just due south of the border with Canada near the St. Lawrence River, Rolfe was born into a music family. His father, A. B. Rolfe, was the town’s bandmaster (his mom was the band’s clarinetist), and by age six Rolfe was himself proficient on the alto horn. Soon he switched to the cornet and became so talented that by age ten he was playing in John Philip Sousa’s Marine band as a featured soloist. After this he toured with the John Sparks Circus and then to England with the “Frontier Drama” alongside a Native American band which had a profound musical influence on him and his approach to music (his father had even been made an honorary member of the Mohawk tribe due to the family’s good relations with them). Eventually Rolfe went back to school with the intention of going to New York, but spent three additional years upstate playing in the Loweville NY Silver Cornet Band and the Utica NY Majestic Theatre Orchestra. Finally in 1903 he reached New York where he took a complete 180 and got into the movie business as a producer. He earned great wealth, splitting his time between New York and Los Angeles, but eventually lost it all through bad spending habits. After a failed second attempt in the movie industry in the UK, Rolfe travelled back to New York where he decided he wanted to get back into music. His reputation from all those years ago still stayed with him, and he eventually landed a job with Vincent Lopez’s band at the Hotel Pennsylvania, with whom he recorded between 1923 and 1925 for Okeh. In 1925 he left Lopez for a job leading the NBC Lucky Strike hour orchestra. The band proved to be a great success and shortly after, now in his late 40s, he landed a contract with Edison. “Crazy Quilt” is a fairly straightforward read of the stock of this famous Paul Van Loan tune, but does feature some nice hot alto work.