Author: keywhether
Date: 2024-03-11 13:44
kdk wrote:
> SunnyDaze wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking, for example, during some periods the hall
> would
> > have been full of people smoking cigarettes, and dense smoke
> > outside making the buildings black and affecting breathing.
> At
> > other periods there would have been respiratory diseases
> > circulating that might have affected things - for example
> back
> > in the 1910s there would have been diphtheria, TB, and the
> new
> > strain of flu, and later on there would have been polio
> doing
> > the rounds. Michael Flanders of Flanders and Swann blasted
> on
> > through as a professional singer, despite having difficulty
> > breathing because of having had polio.
> >
> > I suppose that realistically some of the guys that we hear
> on
> > old recordings would have had some or all of these things to
> > deal with, and that's before we take into account two world
> > wars and the depression.
> >
> This may be over-selling the principle. First, none of us spent
> time listening to clarinetists (or other wind instrument
> players) from 1910 or even from the WW I era - recording was in
> its infancy and only a very select few are available from that
> far back. We all understand how primitive the recording
> techniques were back then.
>It's interesting, though - I think that trad jazz recordings generally embraced a "pre-mic" era a little longer - it seems to have only embraced "intimate" sounds more recently. Chris Tyle (who sometimes frequents this board) would definetly know better than I whether this is an accurate statement.
>Folks like Acker Bilk and Pete Fountain delivered "intimate" sound in the 1960s, followed by Sandor Benko etc. in solo format, but I'm not certain the sound of the "trad jazz" musician changed much due to mics? Hmmm. Something I'll have to think more about.
>Here's Evan Christopher utilizing that "intimate" sound (clarinet starts at about 40 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/doodle cricket/watch?v=1tmWdlz1PVk
To me this is a great recording.
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