Harlem jazz museum buys hundreds of live 1930s recordings

Mitch Drumm · From: Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake

A Harlem jazz museum has acquired nearly 1000 discs of previously unheard and un-reissued live performances.

Basie, Holiday, Stuff Smith, Goodman, Young, etc. Lots of extended performances--all of it live.

Originally recorded at home by a skillful engineer with good equipment who later helped Columbia develop the LP format.

The collection has been known of for decades, but remained almost completely unheard.

It's now being restored digitally and may be reissued.

http://tinyurl.com/29rg2w2

Full story at above link.

robert kramer · From: Nashville TN

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/arts/music/17jazz.html?ref=music

Chris Forbes · From: Beltsville, MD, USA

I just drooled on my keyboard.

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