@TopsyDurham -- First of all a Happy, Healthy & Successful New Year 2012. How come that there is clearly Lester Young audible on all the 10 takes from September 27, 1938? There was not yet such a technique as "overdubbing" then. There are four other tracks from March 18, 1938, indeed without Lester Young: Laughing At Life, Good Mornin' Blues, I Know That You Know, and Love Me Or Leave Me. Personnel: Buck Clayton, Eddie Durham, Freddie Green, Walter Page & Jo Jones.
Lester Young is NOT on the four 1938 recordings - which JOHN HAMMOND ingeniously produced to showcase the original Band "Eddie Durham and His Base Four", featuring the first electric guitar recordings and electric guitar as a lead Band instrument, intentionally excluding Count Basie/piano. Milt Gabler purchased the four recordings in 1944, added Lester and repackaged into something marketable.
@KaRidder234 So we are saying the same thing... My 1st & last sentence distinguishes "four (original earliest) tracks"... which Lester is NOT on... Thanks.
"featuring the first electric guitar recordings..." Electric guitar recordings begin in 1933 and include e.g. "Blue Guitars" by Zeke Campbell and "Dipsomania" by Len Fillis, both recorded before Eddie Durham recorded anything on electric guitar. (Durham said himself "Hittin' The Bottle" wasn't electric, but acoustic resonator.)
+Joseph Scott - "...as a lead Band instrument", to complete the quote. - Thanks for the hints. - Anyway, there were those two you mentioned: www.discogs.com/artist/1338803-Muryel-Campbell & Len Fillis: th-cam.com/video/J3kAWySbsCo/w-d-xo.html
@TopsyDurham -- Yeah, and these four were wonderful recordings too. Hope you don't mind a personal question: Is there any relation to Mr. Durham, Topsy? You're a guitar player too, as I presume?
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@TopsyDurham -- First of all a Happy, Healthy & Successful New Year 2012.
How come that there is clearly Lester Young audible on all the 10 takes from September 27, 1938? There was not yet such a technique as "overdubbing" then.
There are four other tracks from March 18, 1938, indeed without Lester Young: Laughing At Life, Good Mornin' Blues, I Know That You Know, and Love Me Or Leave Me.
Personnel: Buck Clayton, Eddie Durham, Freddie Green, Walter Page & Jo Jones.
Lester Young is NOT on the four 1938 recordings - which JOHN HAMMOND ingeniously produced to showcase the original Band "Eddie Durham and His Base Four", featuring the first electric guitar recordings and electric guitar as a lead Band instrument, intentionally excluding Count Basie/piano. Milt Gabler purchased the four recordings in 1944, added Lester and repackaged into something marketable.
@KaRidder234 So we are saying the same thing... My 1st & last sentence distinguishes "four (original earliest) tracks"... which Lester is NOT on... Thanks.
"featuring the first electric guitar recordings..." Electric guitar recordings begin in 1933 and include e.g. "Blue Guitars" by Zeke Campbell and "Dipsomania" by Len Fillis, both recorded before Eddie Durham recorded anything on electric guitar. (Durham said himself "Hittin' The Bottle" wasn't electric, but acoustic resonator.)
+Joseph Scott - "...as a lead Band instrument", to complete the quote. - Thanks for the hints. - Anyway, there were those two you mentioned: www.discogs.com/artist/1338803-Muryel-Campbell & Len Fillis:
th-cam.com/video/J3kAWySbsCo/w-d-xo.html
+KaRidder234 Zeke played lead guitar in a band on "Blue Guitars" and Len played lead guitar without a band on "Dipsomania."
+Joseph Scott -- Yeah! That's earthshakingly correct. Love it ;)
:-)
@TopsyDurham -- Yeah, and these four were wonderful recordings too. Hope you don't mind a personal question: Is there any relation to Mr. Durham, Topsy? You're a guitar player too, as I presume?
Yes, daughter to ED. see DurhamJazz . com and FB/Eddie.DurhamJazz