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10/16/2024

With Parks Audio LLC – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

09/23/2024

09/09/2024

Otis Spann & Muddy Waters

Otis Spann's section during Muddy's set at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival back on Sunday the 27th October, 1968. Lovely to see Muddy introduce Spann here as hi...

09/08/2024

The Bum Song, recordeed by "Hobo" Jack Turner 7/31/1928 for COLUMBIA, on the DIVA pressing. Diva was a division of Columbia Records, selling music through W. T. Grant retail stores.

09/04/2024

"Hot Lips" ("When He Plays Jazz He's Got - Hot Lips"). First big hit written by trumpeter Henry Busse and originally performed and recorded by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra on June 23, 1922 in New York.

It was advertised as "A Blues Fox Trot Song".
The song is about a trumpet player. The chorus is:

He's got hot lips— When he plays Jazz
He draws out step,— Like no one has
You're on your toes,— And shake your shoes
Boy, how he goes— When he plays Blues
I watch the crowd— Until he's through
He can be proud— They're "cuckoo,' too
His music's rare You must declare,— The boy is there
With two hot lips, He's got hot lips

09/02/2024

The pieces of flexible cardboard, covered in a thin layer of the lacquer with grooved pressed into it (on one side only), were usually attached to the magazines, In the late 1920s. Playing it on the crank-up phonograph, with the vertical tracking force in the range of the ounces, was lethal to it. This one, somehow, survived. And it sounds surprisingly good!!

A Little Tech for Geeks:

78 RPM, spinning on Technics SP-15 Direct Drive Broadcasting Turntable with
Vintage Japanese Grace G-860F Tonearm and
Audio Technica ATVM95 Moving Magnet cartridge, with AT-VMN95SP 3.0 mil Conical Bonded Tip Stylus.
Vertical Tracking Force set to 5g.
Preamp: Parks Audio LLC
Phono DSP, set to 42dB (2.7mV) gain
Hi-Cut filter
Low-Cut filter
Super Mono Mode
Magic ON
Derumble ON
EQ: Turnover Frequency 500Hz; Bass Shelf N; Rolloff -5dB@10kHz
Output: Optical, set to 24/48
Outboard DAC, to decouple the turntable from the system leakage currents:
SONY PCM-D100
Video captured on iPhone XIV Pro Max @ 1920 × 1080 / 24 fps, with SHURE MOTIV VIDEO app

09/02/2024

Another great post by Blues.In.Colour

08/30/2024

Thursday, August 29th. The first day of the Chicago Jazz Festival started on Dinah's 100th birthday. Was she a Jazz Singer? No more, or less than a blues, gospel, folk or pop singer. She was THE singer. In a brief and intense period of 20 years, she accomplished more than all other singers combined in a century. She was imitated by thousands of others. Nonetheless, there is only one Dinah Washington. I don't think there is a day that passes without me playing at least one of her records.