Austrian 'Hot Jazz Ernst Holzer' 1930: POLYPHONIA

[kr103]

Maybe the title is only referring to the record company's name, the "Polyphon Musikwerke AG" who ran the Polydor label? That would have been not unusual at the time ...

[kdegru]

Sounds like the amplifier that was used to playback this record has a problem as I hear alot of hum. Can I help you fix it. Contact me if interested.

[jazzgirl1920s]

Interesting to see "Hot Jazz" on the record label.

[kspm01]

This was such an outstanding band, unfortunately hardly known.

[JCJasion]

This was a most distinctive orchestra, all the moreso since they were operating far from the Continental European hotbeds of hot jazz activity at that time, Paris and Berlin. Something makes me wonder though. There is no real polyphony on this side. Might this side be mislabled an actually be "Halloa, The Hot Vienna Boys", mislabled, and the other side actually "Polyphonia" or "Polyphony?". The music would seem to bear this out. Any thoughts, people? Halloa, Phil Schaap?

[Stompy23]

I also wondered why this tune is called "Polyphonia". But there is certainly no mislabelling. Numbering on both labels is identical to numbers in the wax. At present, 4 copies of this record are known to exist in collections, and each shows the same labelling. But both tunes remained manuscripts in unpublished shape, so we possibly have it to do with a title mix up that already happened in the studio.

[JCJasion]

@Stompy23 - I'd go with that theory Stompy