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Saint Louis Blues - 1921

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Uploaded by on Jun 2, 2009

This record at least 88 years old

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be able to own this record. The end of the Great War and the wild untamed music that was the craze when the ODJB started recording was sweeten and slowed by 1921. They were not as in demand as they once were but were still very popular. By now the publics taste had moved on to larger dance bands that toured and provided music for the growing roaring twenties music. The ODJB had created my imitators and the public was saturated with their music. Its nice that in this recorded they kept true to their roots even with the addition of Bennie Krueger and the lost of their piano player Ragas to the Spanish Flu pandemic.


Title: Saint Louis Blues
Label:Batwing Black
Composer:The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Recorded:05.25.1921
Artist:The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

D.J. LaRocca- cornet, Larry Shields Clarinet,
Bennie Krueger C Melody Sax (added at the urging of Victor)
Eddies Edwards Trombone, Tony Scarbaro Drums & Frank Signorelli on Piano


Record Number: 18772 - B
Format: Acoustically Recorded 78 RPM Record
Technical issues:
no Equalization curve, Turntable Speed 73, Heavy Wear


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Recorded in Shiprock New Mexico Saturday, June 2, 2009 on a TTUSB ION turntable.

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Uploader Comments (Zefrenm)

  • why you have a speed of 73rpm? theese discs were made for 78 not? do you want to hold the music more bluesy by playing it only 73rpm?

  • VIctor has been documented "behind the scene" in recent years for altering the groove width and recording speed as much as +/- 15 or in my expirence between 80 to 68 RPMS. Groove width and speed wasn't standard until the 1938 RCA EQ Cruve was adopted and created a crude constant amplitude disc recording.

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  • I always get in a great mood when I'm playing it on the piano.

  • Thank you for posting this wonderful recording..... I am a piano player who loves listening and researching the roots of Jazz and Blues.........

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