Museum acquires Savory Jazz Collection

[Gandalfe]

This year the National Jazz Museum in Harlem acquired the entire set of nearly 1,000 discs, made at the height of the swing era, and has begun digitizing recordings of inspired performances by Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan, Harry James and others that had been thought to be lost forever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/arts/music/17jazz.htm?_r=1

Here are some of the music that is being made available. I found the before and after remastering sound comparisons interesting.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/17/arts/music/savory-collection.html?ref=music

 

[saxismyaxe]

MANY thanks for posting this Jim. I will be eagerly awaiting these reissues.

That alternate, live take of Coleman Hawkins' Body and Soul, post 1939 landmark recording, is one I have never heard before, but definitely want to own for example.

Anyone know if that is Leon Berry on the Cab Calloway clip? Sounds like him.

 

[retread]

Glorious! Hard to beat those KC tenor players. Amazing what music can come from a wide-open town that believed the law should not interfere with good times and the money that could be made.