Wax cylinder recording session at Bix Beiderbecke's childhood home in Davenport
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Many thanks to Marilene McCandless and the Avati brothers for allowing us to do these recordings in Bix's childhood home in Davenport, Iowa.
Andy Schumm - cornet
Dave bock - trombone
John Otto - clarinet
David Boeddinghaus - piano
Leah Bezin - banjo
Beau Sample - string bass
Josh Duffee - cymbal
Edison phonograph/recording horn/blank wax cylinders, etc.: Shawn Borri
Video recording and editing: Enrico Borsetti
Location: Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke House
1934 Grand Avenue - Davenport, Iowa 52803
Real music!
There's nothing else like 1920s jazz to improve a person's mood.
This will improve your mood too ruclips.net/video/Mfb1n6sSW_s/видео.html
The brown wax as it is called is really an aluminum soap with a little ceresine wax to keep the moisture from attacking it. I make these blanks based on research by Thomas Edison's Chemist Jonas Aylsworth. the equipment I used to process is all equipment made by Thomas A Edison laboratory Orange N.J, the ending machines, and shaving machine. The molds are based on Edison molds from the 1890s.
HOLY SH*T ... this is absolutely amazing !!! The sound that comes out of this machine makes me shiver - it really sounds like an original period recording of the 20s ... gives me "goose pimples" everytime I watch it (just to use a good old Bix tune´s name!).
I cannot praise your work enough !! To see and hear the difference between a life performance and an early accoustic recording is a great experience for an old 78rpm-collector (and Bix-fan). Thanks to you all (music and technicians) many many times !!!
Somewhere in the cosmos Bix must be smiling!
Bravo, absolutely bravo! An incredible tribute, too bad his parents are not around to see this and maybe finally see how important their son was. Thank you for the video
I hope we can record again, I have a new recording head, that is one of Edison's factory studio recorders, it is very sensitive, and much higher quality.
Shawn keep yourself free during the 2015 Bix Festival weekend.
If you record again, I wouldn't place the clarinet at the same distance to the horn as the brasses. You can hardly hear it on the recording. Even with modern microphones, you have to put them much closer to achieve balance. Accounts of how this was done with acoustic equipment, describes the clarinets being "practically inside the horn".The piano is facing away from the horn, and you can't hear that either. Turning it sideways and placing the rim of it close to the horn could be a solution. The string bass basically has no chance of being captured by this type, you need a tuba or a bass sax.
certainly, the clarinet is rather hard to record, so will have it closer next time, it should be at the edge of the horn.
Fascinating and the band played very sweetly. Play back suffered in reproducing the sound but we get the idea.
The playback sounds just like an original 1920's recording. Well done!
Shawn now has a better recording head and the playback is much much better
Very good
I listened to this on March 10 -- a very fitting time to do so. Happy B-Day Bix!
Well that's the coolest thing I'll ever see. I can die happy now. I could tell even with modern sound quality you had the feel of the 1920's, which is not easy. The playback was spectacular. Coming from someone who is cosmically adhered to 1920's jazz, you did a phenomenal job.
We all had a fantastic afternoon, I wish I'll be able to replicate a situation like this next year...
Thanks for this. It's interesting to compare the modern recording made as the musicians were playing with the cylinder. Ironically, there's no evidence Bix himself ever recorded on a cylinder. The use of just a cymbal instead of a full drum kit was because the vibrations of drums, especially bass drums, could throw off the record needle and ruin a master. King Oliver's great Creole Band records of 1923-24 were made with the drummer, Warren "Baby" Dodds, restricted to snare drum, cymbal and wood blocks. Not until Gene Krupa's first recording session in Chicago, 1927 with McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans was a full drum set put on records.
Drums do record on cylinders, the playback of them is difficult with an acoustical reproducer. I recorded Slick Rick at Madison Square Garden, and the bass was chest-pounding, when played back with a magnetic cartridge, but sounded like thuds with a horn (you could hear it in listening tubes.) By 1927, electrical recording and playback using matched acoustical impedance with the orthophonic acoustical system.
I enjoyed recording here, and it was a real honor to take part in this.
Great performance...! thank you guys! Bix Lives!!!!
Super! Great Job! Thanks to all of YOU!
Delicious experience and music -- I feel sorry for the readers who could only assess negatively: "Bix's style" and "unimaginative." Everyone's a critic, alas. A beautiful little vignette evoking a lost time.
This music is the very reason why I decided to play at all. I just wish I knew people near me with which to perform it!
As a huge Bix fan, I am so happy I found this video. Thank you so much for sharing. This is so awesome.
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Real good jazzmusik
This is amazing! Sounds as if it was recorded 85 years ago! Someone needs to recreate blank wax cylinders... Then more excellent times like these can be created. Great job guys!
I make the wax blank cylinders, and the one used is one I created, they are made of aluminum soap, with a ceresine wax, same material used to make original blank Edison cylinders.
This is so cool! I need to get a new recording head for my Edison Home Phonograph, and a recording horn!
Truly fantastic!
Hello to my unknown cousin John on the clarinet. I have a GRASSI and a full boehm La Fleur.
And I have frequently played Margi on my valvetrombone.. But often faster.
Merci, c'est magnifique et très intéressant de pouvoir comparer le son entre l'original et le recorded.
that was awesome
That was a crazy good recording procedure! Is that how it was done over 100 years ago? It’s like going back in time 😮.
what have u been smokin' ? these guys are the real deal
I would have loved to be sitting on the couch while that was being recorded , just great :)
Fantastic recording..
Art Howard: Maybe part of what you write: This group plays "Margie"
like every Dixieland Band did and does since 1945 in key of "F".
Bix' s Margie was in the key of "Eb". Big difference in atmosphere.
I always found it interesting that Bix and his Gang did it in Eb; the ODJB, Bix's first model, did it in G The original published key is F, and I have at least one record from the early '20s in F. Society leaders tended to play the published keys, though in NYC, C major was often brought up to Db (a veteran leader from the 1950s once jokingly told me, "C major is the 516 key," referring to the Long Island area code), for example, and sometimes, it was just a matter of preference, or to allow for a smoother modulation to the tune. It was not necessarily to accomodate a vocalist; the published keys often were the "male" keys, but notice on old dance band records, there often is a modulation for the vocalist. Another old- time society player-leader once told me, also jokingly, "You can tell how old a guy is by what keys he plays tunes in!" As an aside, Bix had perfect pitch, and would have been affected by the "atmosphere" of key (as you are ☺), which would have dictated his choices. That assumes his infamous apathy towards details wasn't at play!
Never said they were not great just that they didn't have the "Bix Sound" of the era.
just wonderful
Been there several times. Love the Bix and all the fun times. Hi Josh!!! NH
Great idea nicely implemented.
eccezionale!!!
So cool!!!
I am moved. Thanks.
you guys were really in tears by the end wow
Bix lives !
classic
Sensacional!!!
I live in Davenport Iowa
Hopefully I will be able to set up much earlier and we can cut some more records,,I will have recorders of even higher fidelity too.
what are you talking about???? there was no bass solo, he played the right changes in good time he was doing his job. just fine thank you very much.
This is absolutely fabulous
So in love!
Wonderful job! Thanks!!
Great! my congratulations for each!
Fascinating!!
Id love to hear metal, punk and hip hop recorded on wax cylinders
rEdf196 I wouldn't want to hear those styles recorded on any medium.
You Cats Can't do anything wrong Simple grade A +
Great stuff! Very enjoyable.
you guys are awesome, It would be a dream to do wax recordings like that in Jelly Roll Morton's Childhood home. if interested contact me....thanks for sharing
Wtf! Why didn't I know about this?!
Bridget, where were you on the afternoon of Aug. 4th 2012? :-)
bass sax would have helped a lot for recording the basslines
Eccezionale!!
The thing is.... Do they know that the great Bix's recordings are made in already electric recording???
Awesome, and you guys sound fabulous. Can you describe any observations about recording on wax? How is the end-product different, just the directional recording horn having an effect? Don't know quite what question I'm asking!
Very nice recording of Margie..l think the string bass player is perhaps rather unimaginative,but the rest is great
unfortunately he didn't play hard enough for the recording
Fantastic❤❤❤-where did you find this Old equipment to record on?..
Shawn Borri of Princeton (Illinois) is the owner of the machines. He makes also wax cylinders.
@@lindyhoppers amazing❤❤❤-Thanks for reply
6:23 it sounds like in 1923
Great post!!! Truly a musical blast from the past!!! When can i get my 78 copy for my victrola? Cheers!!!
A magical thing happens when you set the speed to 1.25
I drove past his house yesterday. i don't know who's living there, but it's really starting to look like shit, and it makes me sad.
Doesn't the cut on the wax roll get worn out a lot when playing back?
Great tribute to Bix.........Nicely done - but failed to hear Bix's style in the music.........it was just Firehouse Five type Jazz.........