[Dixielandjazz] alphonso trent

[Marek Boym]

When Wilbur de Paris recorded "The Pearls" at a tempo MUCH slower than
Morton's, he was criticized by purists.
His reaction was that he had played with Morton, and his was the correct
tempo.  Morton tried  to squeeze all the motives int a three minute 78; he
did not.
Cheers


On 4 December 2013 23:56, Paul Kurtz Jr <kurtzph at comcast.net> wrote:

> You know, it just struck me. I have old recordings of George Gershwin
> playing Gershwin music. The speed is PHENOMENAL, like he had somewhere
> important to go, an important dinner date, etc. Of course, he could have
> been trying to fit something on a recording, too.
>
> In any case, having been shocked at the speed, I’m not sure that some of
> these very fast speeds aren’t historically accurate for certain people.
>
> Paul Kurtz Jacksonville, FL
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:41 PM, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=alphonso%20trent
> >
> > The info provided by the link above ought to help work out whether the
> dubs on Historical are too fast.
> >
> > I remember Historical's management getting extremely annoyed by
> unfavourable reviews in the scholarly UK Storyville magazine, because it
> had not occurred to these worthy Northamericans who produced the LPs that
> there is a Hell of a lot more to the history of jazz than digging out
> ancient records and assuming there was no way of finding out more and
> trying to arrange everything in relation to historical and geographical
> evidence.
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure there was proper attention to original recording speed
> either, a topic which exercised John RT Davies and others, sometimes at
> enormous length (so that one might have wished the chatter speeded up)
> >
> >
> > I can't be in very good form, I ought to recognise the other recording
> whose beginning can be listened to as a sample on amazon.co.uk and which
> is referred to as t42 by Alphonse (not AlphonsO) Trent.
> > 'tain't Trent anyway.
> >
> >
> > ttfn
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > Robert R. Calder
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