[Dixielandjazz] The Savory Collection

[Robert Ringwald]

This from a friend of mine.  Some of you know him as Mad Dawg.  

This info has been on DJML before but it doesn't hurt to post a refresher.  Especially for new members.  

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If no one has posted this site yet to  the jazz newsletter, perhaps you would like
to do so.  It should be of interest.
A new web site for you to try. It has a collection of recordings, mostly off of radio
stations, that an audio engineer from the 30's named William Savory (NOT Savoy like
the ballroom. No connection that I know of.) made on large aluminum and shellac disks
apparently for his own use, or possibly in some cases at special recording sessions
then.
He put them away in storage boxes, many of which deteriorated in time and never reveled
he had them for whatever reason.  When he died his heirs donated them to the Jazz
Museum in Harlem.
A sound engineer was brought out of retirement to work on them. Clean them up and
eventually will get rid of the surface noise he could not clean off.  Many were lost
from apparently water damage to the aluminum and can not be restored, but the ones
he got salvaged (Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Basie, Louis etc.)  are being restored.
Samples of some of these tracks are at this address on the web site
www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/savory/index.php
These are about 30 second clips  of recordings they are working on. Cleaned up, but
still with surface noise.  They will be corrected later. They have been playing some
of them in their entirety at events at the museum.
The best thing about them is that since he used the larger shellac  disks which were
12-16 inches in size
and thus he could get full performances rather then the standard 3 minutes of so
on most 78's.
Give the samples a listen to see what we may have to look forward to. Both vocalists
and musicians.  Some are both.
The link came from the History Channel magazine. The home page of the site shows
the events.
--Mad Dawg



--Bob Ringwald
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