[Dixielandjazz] Don Lambert

[Arnold Day]

John,
Many thanks for those details. The Blesh session you refer to consisted of
40 tunes (!!) of which 13 were issued on LP by Solo Art, a label that has
long been owned by George Buck of The GHB Jazz Foundation/Jazzology Records
in New Orleans . It has never, to my knowledge, been trasferred to CD, but I
plan to contact George to ask about it and the other 27. He can be slow to
reply (due to advancing age and his hectic life) but I will post any
response I get.

Perhaps the main point I was trying to make is that the "Meet The Lamb" LP
was made from the Wallace Tavern tapes and (with a little patience) the
audio quality can be improved to what I would call VG+, so perhaps there is
hope that the other 200 or so tunes recorded there will make it to CD some
day in  reasonable good audio quality. It's only a matter of which comes
first, the CDs or the undertaker!
Arn


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Farrell" <stridepiano at tesco.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:17 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Don Lambert


> Arn,
>
> Although a great admirer of his piano playing I am no authority on the
life
> and work of Don Lambert, the little I know about him comes from liner
notes,
> books and word of mouth.
>
> So far as I am aware the sides issued by Bluebird are Lambert's only
studio
> recordings therefore I presume that the material on the IAJRC and Pumpkin
> LPs must have come from privately recorded tapes.
>
> The four 1941 Lambert tracks on the French RCA Harlem Stride Pianists
double
> LP set came from the Bluebird session. In the liner notes (written by
Johnny
> Simmen) is the following comment :
>
> "Don's death (in 1962) was to coincide with the publication of the fine LP
> he recorded for Harriet Janis and Rudi Blesh."
>
> Maybe our resident expert Bill Haesler can enlighten us about this LP. I
> thought that I had all the available commercial releases but do not have
> this one, Rust does not mention it (hardly surprising as Rust restricted
> himself to jazz records made between 1897 and 1942). Indeed I have never
> seen a copy - did it appear on the market in a different guise perhaps?
>
> I am not acquainted with Harvey Ballance nor do I know any details of what
> is on the Lambert tapes he has. However I am fortunate enough to own two
CDs
> which he made, as I said in my previous posting although the audio quality
> of the original recordings is abysmal the music is astonishing. As for
Mike
> Lipskin, although we correspond very infrequently he has told me nothing
> about the Lambert tapes in his possession - all I know about them is that
> Mike plans to transfer the contents to CD which he will release in due
> course.
>
> John Farrell
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arnold Day" <arnieday at optonline.net>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Don Lambert
>
>
> > John,
> >
> > Were the three LPs (Meet The Lamb/Classics In Stride/Harlem Stride
> Classics)
> > produced from the private tapes you are referring to? The liner notes on
> > Meet The Lamb, (which IS from the Wallace Tavern recordings) refer to
> > "clean, studio-like tapes of over 200 Lambert Solos." Are these the ones
> now
> > "owned" by Harvey Ballance and Mike Lipskin?
> >
> > Incidentally, since this subject came up, I have been transferring my
> 'Meet
> > The Lamb' LP to my computer for eventual burning to a CD.
> > A very interesting discovery is that a lot of the distortion on several
of
> > the tracks is in only one of the stereo channels only (presumably due to
a
> > bad mic or recording head.) In these cases, simply deleting the bad
> channel
> > and replacing it with a copy of the audio in the good channel gives an
> > excellent mono recording. The IAJRC LP (my copy at least) also had a lot
> of
> > pressing and equalisation defects which are very easy to correct. It's
> > amazing what one can do with a modern computer and some pretty low-cost
> > software that someone like the late John R.T.Davis would have given his
> > right arm to have available to him. This subject (audio restoration) is
> > probably  not of much interest to most DJML members. Therefore, anyone
> > wanting to discuss it further and /or to receive some of the results of
my
> > efforts on the 'Meet The Lamb' tracks is  more than welcome to contact
me
> > off-list. Note:  A 3-minute MP3 160Kbs file is about 4MB in size!
> > Arn
>
>
>
>
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