Duke Ellington - Limehouse Blues (1931)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Another one of my favorite Ellington records from this period, Duke's mesmerizing arrangement of "Limehouse Blues" was recorded on June 16, 1931. Soloists include Harry Carney (bsx), Johnny Hodges (asx), Barney Bigard (clt), and Joe Nanton (tbn).
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. I use "soft tone" needles to keep from overloading the microphone. 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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Fabulous sound for an 81-year-old recording! I think Ellington is one of the greatest American musicians ever.
Awesome! The Duke is the King!!!
Love this musical Composition!!!
Wow! Such a creative arrangement of this great piece. Thanks so much for uploading! This era of Duke yielded some of my all-time favorite music. Duke really understood the unique individual strengths and characters of his musicians when composing and arranging, and made such great use of them in his music!
it sounds so good on the granada...thanks for a wonderful ellington experience...
Lovely sound.....great version of this lovely song. Thanks for posting it.
Great stuff, thanks
I thought I had a lot of Ellington's recordings (mostly on reissues), but I'd not heard this fabulous recording. Thanks!
Equally impressed by Michael's recording technique as by the superb orchestration and playing.
Great arrangement
It was once said that Duke was about 10 years ahead of everybody else when he recorded numbers like this...and "they" were right! You can imagine how people must have reacted to hearing this on "Victrolas" such as this one in '31...
What was a limehouse?
Limehouse was a dockside district in East London notorious for its squalor and the abundance of Chinese-run opium dens.
Is that a 78 rpm record?
INDEED IT IS!!!!!!!!! 😃