Two fine sides that l did even know existed..Ferry is my second favourite player (after Guarente) from the 20s..His plunger and mute playing is excellent.. No-one seems to know what happened to him after the hotel engagement finished..As far as l know he did not travel to Germany,or join another British band..However no info if he returned to America either??
Ferry is one of my favourite trumpeters (and I am a trumpet player myself). I would love to know more about him - both before and after his time at the Savoy.
@@1920sman Before he was in Asia travelling and playing for approx 2 years..China was his main stop..This is info someone passed on to me??? How he ended up in England and joining the Havana l do not know..
@@1920sman I have just completed researching Ferry's biography. It will not be in print (in Memory Lane) until August 2021 at the earliest. There are one or two surprises.
The transfers are very good, Hector. I can't hear the mechanical noise you mention, or maybe I'm so used to it that I don't notice it! I can only hear one saxophone so I don't think Starita was present at all, and we just have a quartet here.
Well, Rust names two alto-saxes in the Tribe; and the four sides have consecutive numbers which suggests a single session.. Perhaps (if I misquote Eric Morecambe) they are both playing there but not necessarily playing at the same time!
@@6dBperOctave I have found that many laminated pressings have an "orange peel" textured surface. Using a stereo cartridge can give an "under water" effect which is eliminated by using a true mono cartridge. I have found that a VRII can get quite an acceptable transfer when a stereo cart sounds really noisy. By the way - thanks for posting this record. I've had quite a few Regals but have never seen a Finney Tribe record until yours.
@@mickeyclark5315 Alas, many cartridges sold as 'mono' are just stereo ones with the channels strapped together. Styli on stereo cartridges move in the horizontal and vertical. Your observation confirms my thoughts: that the stylus of a truly 'mono' cartridge should deflect only in the horizontal - as was the case on acoustic tone-boxes and mono electrical pickups and which is not the case for strapped-stereo. That said - I use a stereo cartridge with software that does something a little more sophisticated than summing the channels - but still not ideal, though as signals are generated which need, then, eliminating if possible.
@@6dBperOctave Just to freshen my perspective, I just dubbed a sample from an Edison DD (vertical) and summed the channels without inverting the waveform - a process that would supposedly eliminate the vertical audio from the mix. I could still hear the audio - fairly clearly and with a lot of noise. Thus, if there is vertical information from an irregular surface on a lateral cut record, the stereo cart will pick it up. In my view, a modernized stylus assembly mounted in a GE VRII cart would be a very good thing. It's still a charm for difficult and worn records.
Two fine sides that l did even know existed..Ferry is my second favourite player (after Guarente) from the 20s..His plunger and mute playing is excellent.. No-one seems to know what happened to him after the hotel engagement finished..As far as l know he did not travel to Germany,or join another British band..However no info if he returned to America either??
Ferry is one of my favourite trumpeters (and I am a trumpet player myself). I would love to know more about him - both before and after his time at the Savoy.
@@1920sman Before he was in Asia travelling and playing for approx 2 years..China was his main stop..This is info someone passed on to me??? How he ended up in England and joining the Havana l do not know..
@@1920sman I have just completed researching Ferry's biography. It will not be in print (in Memory Lane) until August 2021 at the earliest. There are one or two surprises.
The transfers are very good, Hector. I can't hear the mechanical noise you mention, or maybe I'm so used to it that I don't notice it!
I can only hear one saxophone so I don't think Starita was present at all, and we just have a quartet here.
Well, Rust names two alto-saxes in the Tribe; and the four sides have consecutive numbers which suggests a single session.. Perhaps (if I misquote Eric Morecambe) they are both playing there but not necessarily playing at the same time!
@@6dBperOctave I have found that many laminated pressings have an "orange peel" textured surface. Using a stereo cartridge can give an "under water" effect which is eliminated by using a true mono cartridge. I have found that a VRII can get quite an acceptable transfer when a stereo cart sounds really noisy. By the way - thanks for posting this record. I've had quite a few Regals but have never seen a Finney Tribe record until yours.
@@mickeyclark5315 Alas, many cartridges sold as 'mono' are just stereo ones with the channels strapped together. Styli on stereo cartridges move in the horizontal and vertical. Your observation confirms my thoughts: that the stylus of a truly 'mono' cartridge should deflect only in the horizontal - as was the case on acoustic tone-boxes and mono electrical pickups and which is not the case for strapped-stereo. That said - I use a stereo cartridge with software that does something a little more sophisticated than summing the channels - but still not ideal, though as signals are generated which need, then, eliminating if possible.
@@6dBperOctave Just to freshen my perspective, I just dubbed a sample from an Edison DD (vertical) and summed the channels without inverting the waveform - a process that would supposedly eliminate the vertical audio from the mix. I could still hear the audio - fairly clearly and with a lot of noise. Thus, if there is vertical information from an irregular surface on a lateral cut record, the stereo cart will pick it up. In my view, a modernized stylus assembly mounted in a GE VRII cart would be a very good thing. It's still a charm for difficult and worn records.