Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang recorded "Since My Best Girl Turned Me Down" on October 25, 1927 in New York City. The musicians on this record are members of the orchestra that played at the Club Ne...
Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang recorded "Since My Best Girl Turned Me Down" on October 25, 1927 in New York City. The musicians on this record are members of the orchestra that played at the Club New Yorker, which was open only one month. Before that, most of those musicians played in the freshly-disbanded Jean Goldkette Orchestra.
Bix's Gang consists of Bix on cornet, Bill Rank on trombone, Bill Murray on clariney, Adrian Rollini on bass sax, Frank Signorelli on piano, and Chauncey Morehouse on drums. This record is a reissue of the performance, which was originally released on the OKeh label
The record player is an Orthophonic Victrola model VE4-4X, or "Granada". The "E" in the model number indicates that the Victrola is fitted with a synchronous A/C motor instead of a wind-up motor. The machine has a full "orthophonic" playback system (for electrically-recorded records) including the special orthophonic sound box with a duralumin diaphragm and a folded exponential horn inside of the cabinet. Although the gigantic Credenza Victrola produced deeper bass, the Granada had the most accurate overall frequency response of all the acoustic Orthophonic Victrolas. The serial number indicates that this machine was probably manufactured in 1926.
I shoot my video with a Sony Digital 8 format camera. For audio, I use a Shure SM-57 microphone on a stand placed about 4 feet in front of the Victrola horn. Although I normally use "soft tone" needles, this video was made with a "bright" or "loud" tone needle. The mic is plugged directly into the video camera. The videos are edited with Windows Movie Maker. I use Sound Forge 9 to clean up the audio, but don't worry -- you're hearing the record exactly as the Victrola plays it!
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Bix at his best. They don't get much livelier than this. Sadly, a couple of years later, the clarinettist, Don Murray was tragically killed when he fell off the running board of a car during sudden braking. A great solo of his on 'Sorry' Many thanks, Miaprairie
Your Record is a Re-isssue on a Vacalion Scroll from 1937, probably a laminated ARC Pressing w/Columbia surface, which makes it a real joy to listen to from a fidelity standpoint both Columbia, Vocalion and Brunswick from this standpoint were part of the ARC/Plaza family. Columbia was sold to CBS around 1938,1939
I'm just a casual jazz fan, and I confess I hadn't heard much of Bix's music, but I LOVE this one. The music that Jackie Cooper "plays" in the movie "Syncopation"(1942), sounds very similar to this. Maybe his fictional character was very loosely based on Bix, (without the inner demons). And, yes, I know Kirk Douglas played Bix in "Young Man With a Horn." I plan to listen to good deal more of Mr. Beiderbecke in the future. Thanks for the posting.
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Sadly, a couple of years later, the clarinettist, Don Murray was tragically killed when he fell off the running board of a car during sudden braking. A great solo of his on 'Sorry'
Many thanks, Miaprairie
Thanks.