(Early Jazz, Big Band, Dixieland) [LP][24/96] VA - Thesaurus Of Classic Jazz (4LP) - 1959 (US) MONO, FLAC (tracks)

A1 The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra – My Melancholy Baby 2:59
A2 The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra – Beebe 2:54
A3 Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra – Humpty Dumpty 3:00
A4 Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra – Three Blind Mice 2:59
A5 Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra – Lila 2:55
A6 Miff Mole And His Little Molers – Feelin' No Pain 2:47
B1 The Goofus Five – Vo-Do-Do-De-O Blues 3:08
B2 Joe Venuti's Blue Four – Four String Joe 2:52
B3 Eddie Lang's Orchestra – Walkin' The Dog 2:59
B4 Eddie Lang's Orchestra – Hot Heels 3:01
B5 Eddie Lang's Orchestra – Freeze An' Melt 2:55
B6 Eddie Lang's Orchestra – Buble Call Rag 2:56

A1 Miff Mole's Little Molers – At The Darktown Strutters' Ball 2:57
A2 Miff Mole's Little Molers – Davenport Blues 3:09
A3 Miff Mole's Little Molers – My Gal Sal 3:04
A4 Miff Mole's Little Molers – The New Twister 2:58
A5 Miff Mole's Little Molers – Honolulu Blues 2:48
A6 Miff Mole's Little Molers – That's A Plenty 2:48
B1 Miff Mole's Little Molers – After You've Gone 3:30
B2 Miff Mole's Little Molers – I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling 2:56
B3 Miff Mole's Little Molers – Alexander's Ragtime Band 2:51
B4 Miff Mole's Little Molers – Some Sweet Day 3:07
B5 Miff Mole's Little Molers – Crazy Rhythm 3:00
B6 Miff Mole's Little Molers – Navy Blues 3:26

A1 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Mississippi Mud 2:07
A2 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – My Gal Sal 3:15
A3 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Farewell Blues 2:50
A4 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Wabash Blues 2:46
A5 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Davenport Blues 3:12
A6 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – After You've Gone 2:39
B1 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Sugar Foot Strut 2:33
B2 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Imagination 2:50
B3 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Delirium 3:08
B4 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Five Pennies 3:19
B5 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Someday Sweetheart 3:17
B6 Red Nichols And The Charleston Chasers – Feelin' No Pain 2:56

A1 The Red Heads – Brown Sugar 2:43
A2 The Red Heads – Get A Load Of This 3:11
A3 Cliff Edwards & His Hot Combination – Meadowlark 3:04
A4 The Red Heads – Heebie Jeebies 2:58
A5 The Red Heads – A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2:23
A6 The Red Heads – Baltimore 2:56
A7 The Red Heads – Alabama Stomp 2:46
A8 The Red Heads – Hurricane 2:51
B1 The Arkansas Travellers – Washboard Blues 2:45
B2 The Arkansas Travellers – That's No Bargain 2:54
B3 The Arkansas Travellers – Red Head Blues 2:37
B4 The Arkansas Travellers – Birmingham Breakdown 2:45
B5 The Arkansas Travellers – Boneyard Shuffle 2:51
B6 The Arkansas Travellers – Stompin' Fool 3:03
B7 The Arkansas Travellers – Ja-Da 3:05
B8 The Arkansas Travellers – Sensation 2:35

From the introductory liner notes by John Hammond: The era may have been called "The Roaring Twenties", but the music in the Thesaurus of Classic Jazz is sparkling, sophisticated and somewhat subdued. The extraordinary liner notes, by Dick DuPage and Frank Driggs, indicate liquor relieved the frustrations the various musicians had playing commercial music in the big bands and studio groups of the day. However, little frustration is evident in the music of any of the volumes. (...) The Thesaurus of Jazz includes the cream of early improvised jazz in one of the most comprehensive collections ever published on long playing records.

Columbia, U.S. Original Pressing on the 6-eye label, 1959, MONO

Matrix info (stamped):
XLP50269-1A
XLP50270-1A
XLP50271-1A
XLP50272-1C
XLP50273-1C
XLP50274-1C
XLP50275-1B
XLP50276-1G
Technique:
Rega RP3 turntable with RB303 arm
Transrotor Uccello moving magnet cartridge
Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 phono pre
Tascam US-122 mkII USB interface
Neutrik interconnects
carefully declicked in iZotope RX 3 and normalized to -0.3
fully tagged in iTunes
FLACs made with XLD
high-resolution sleeve and label reproductions taken on a Fujifilm X100 camera
Technical note:
This music was originally recorded in the 1920′s using both electrical and acoustical processes. For the acoustical process (all of the songs on LP number 4), musicians gathered around a horn which was connected to a recording machine which etched the vibrations coming from the horn directly into wax. The sound has very little frequency range and dynamics. For the electrical process (LPs 1-3), the horn was replaced by a microphone, which yielded much better sound, but the recording was still being made directly to wax. Therefore there is surface noise audible all throughout, which originates not from this vinyl pressing, but from the original master discs. Tape recording only began in the late 1940′s, many many years after theses discs were recorded. Now, I’m sure most of you knew this already, but I thought it was worth mentioning for the uninitiated.
The original discs were then transferred onto tape for this 1959 LP release and they did a great job at it. The original frequency range is all there (including the surface noise) and the usual adding of reverb is kept to a minimum or non-existent. The music has unbelievable presence.