[Dixielandjazz] Fixing recordings

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

The great story about fixing recordings isn't strictly jazz. Otto Klemperer was asked to patch one of his symphonic recordings, brought into the studio by his daughter and wit the whole Philharmonia Orchestra in front of him asked to conduct them in two bars. He did so, He was told he was finished, the patch had been recorded. 
He turmed to his daughter and said, "Lotte, a swindle!"  The main purpose is to avoid distractions
And then there was the glaring patch on a Decca recording, where the people responsible for the patch had looked only at the printed score and not realised that the sound of the clarinet would carry over the bar-line which marked where the clarinetist stopped  blowing. The threnody lingered on. . . 
And then there's Bruno Walter saying that flawless execution of every note is usually a sign of not being sufficiently involved in the music. Eddie Condon said exactly the same thing. 
There is of course no reason why proper performances couldn't be put together by stitching, which is what happened with the first Buck Clayton jam session, where the order of the solos was altered -- but it was altered by musical people with the same motives and intentions as the musicians.  Of course if you make a habit of that sort of manipulation you'll not necessarily retain the appropriate powers of discernment.

       
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