[Dixielandjazz] alphonso trent

[Paul Kurtz Jr]

Marek, reading is good, too. For blind people like me, many magazines still aren’t available either through recording or even downloadable and so getting stuff from guys like you who dig into the magazines and study stuff is good. Over a long, long time, i’ve saved reference files of messages just like yours from a variety of mailing lists and that provides my info for research when I have to go back. Still good stuff. 
Paul Kurtz Jacksonville, FL
P.S. I’m sure Bob Ringwald and many others do the same thing I do. 
On Dec 6, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Marek, that’s what’s so cool about the list and you guys who’ve talked to people. We lose history by only listening to recordings without having background.
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> Actually, Paul, I didn't talk to Wilbur de Paris - by the time of my first visit to the States ha had been dead for seven years!  However, I read jazz magazines (in the 1960's I subscribed to both Down Beat  and the Jazz Journal, later - to the Mississippi RAg, and beforehand - to the Polish "Jazz" monthly) and the sleeve notes.  De Paris was quoted in the notes to one of his wonderful Atlantic albums.  Oh, I also listened to the VoA "Jazz Hour" with Willis Conover, a programme not available in the States, to Humphrey Lyttelton's BBC programmes, etc., and there was a lot of information, either from the announcers or musicians interviewed.  And read  books on jazz, some good, some (like "The eart of Jazz") ridiculous, but all containing lots of information.
> Cheers
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> Paul Kurtz Jacksonville, FL
> On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > > 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)
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> For those who don't know - John RT Davies was the guru and the high priest of the art of remastering.
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> Cheers
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