The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991 est une incroyable collection mise a notre disposition gratuitement et légalement sur archive.org ,collection de 1 378 fichiers WAV de , 637 Go de musique qualité CD , ce qui fait plus de 1000 heures de jazz en concert joué par les plus grands artistes de Jazz . Une exceptionnelle collection d'enregistrements directs des concerts concernant les plus grands artistes de Jazz de tous les temps et de toutes les époques depuis les années 1920 jusqu'en 1991.Tous les morceaux de musique sont téléchargeables légalement directement et en plusieurs formats qualité CD sur le site archive.org . la qualité de certaines bandes est plus dégradé que d'autres. Ces fichiers sont des reproductions de qualité CD de ce qui était en l'état sur les bandes de l'année 2010 à 2011 .
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Henry "Red" Allen (trumpet)
Louis Armstrong 1 (cornet, trumpet, vocal)
Chet Baker 2 (trumpet, flugelhorn, vocal)
Sidney Bechet (clarinet)
Bix Beiderbecke (trumpet)
Chu Berry (tenor sax)
Clifford Brown (trumpet)
Lawrence Brown 3 (trombone)
Pete Brown (alto sax)
California Ramblers (big band)
Benny Carter 4 (arr., big band, alto sax, clar., trumpet)
Charlie Christian (guitar)
Buck Clayton 5 (trumpet, arranger)
Wild Bill Davison (cornet, trumpet)
Vic Dickenson (trombone)
Johnnie Dodds (clarinet)
Harry Edison (trumpet)
Roy Eldridge (trumpet)
Duke Ellington (piano, arr., big band)
Duke's Sidemen (piano, arr.)
Bill Evans (piano)
Bud Freeman (tenor sax)
Stan Getz (tenor sax)
Benny Goodman 6 (clarinet, big band)
Al Grey (trombone)
Bobby Hackett (cornet, trumpet, vocal)
Scott Hamilton (tenor sax)
Lionel Hampton (vibes)
Jimmy Harrison (trombone)
Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax)
Fletcher Henderson (arranger, big band)
J.C. Higginbotham (trombone)
Earl Hines (piano)
Johnny Hodges 7 (alto sax)
Billie Holiday (vocal)
J.J. Johnson (trombone)
James P. Johnson (piano)
Keg Johnson (trombone)
Barney Kessel (guitar)
Includes some Jack Teagarden (trombone).
Includes some Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax).
3 See also Duke Ellington (piano, arranger, big band).
4 Includes some Count Basie (piano, big band).
5 Includes some Count Basie (piano, big band).
6 Includes some Charlie Christian (guitar), Lionel Hampton (vibes),
Harry James (trumpet), Gene Krupa (drums), Teddy Wilson (piano).
See also Duke Ellington (piano, arranger, big band).
Andy Kirk Orchestra 8 (big band)
Tommy Ladnier (trumpet)
Eddie Lang (guitar) (same tapes as Joe Venuti)
McKinney's Cotton Pickers (big band)
Mid 40's All Stars (miscellaneous)
Mid 50's All Stars (miscellaneous)
Ernest "Punch" Miller (trumpet)
Thelonious Monk (piano)
Jelly Roll Morton (piano)
Jimmie Noone (clarinet)
Red Norvo (vibes)
Floyd O'Brien (trombone)
King Oliver (cornet, trumpet)
Kid Ory (trombone)
Charlie Parker (alto sax)
Joe Pass (guitar)
Oscar Peterson 9 (piano)
Bud Powell (piano)
Andre Previn (piano)
Django Reinhardt (guitar)
Gene Schroeder (piano)
Frank Sinatra (vocal)
Bessie Smith (vocal)
Willie "The Lion" Smith (piano)
Joe Sullivan (piano)
Art Tatum (piano)
Jack Teagarden (trombone)
Frank Teschemacher (clarinet)
Clark Terry 10 (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Frank Trumbauer (C-melody sax, clarinet, alto sax)
Joe Venuti (violin) (same tapes as Eddie Lang)
Fats Waller (piano)
Dinah Washington (vocal)
Chick Webb's Orchestra (big band)
Ben Webster 1112 (tenor sax)
Teddy Wilson 13 (piano)
Lester Young 14 (tenor sax)
Trummy Young (trombone)
Includes some Mary Lou Williams (piano, arranger).
Includes some Ben Webster (tenor sax).
10 See also Duke Ellington (piano, arranger, big band).
11 See also Duke Ellington (piano, arranger, big band).
12 Includes some Bennie Moten (piano, big band).
13 Includes some Benny Goodman (clarinet, big band).
14 Includes some Count Basie (piano, big band).
An Early Jazz Recording Collection
by David W. Niven
My 20-year-old cousin introduced me to jazz when I
was 10. It was a 10" 78 RPM OK recording of "My
Heart" made in Chicago on November 12, 1925, by
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five with Kid Ory, trombone;
Johnny Dodds, clarinet; Lil Armstrong, piano; and
Johnny St. Cyr, banjo. On the reverse was "Cornet
Chop Suey."
My hip cousin then advised me to get some recordings
by another cornetist, Bix Beiderbecke, who started
recording for OK the same year (1925). I dug, again,
into my newspaper route money (35 cents) and bought
the October 5, 1927, recording of "At the Jazz Band
Ball," backed by "Jazz Me Blues" by "Bix and his
Gang": Bix on cornet; Bill Rank, trombone; Don
Murray, clarinet; Adrian Rollini, bass sax; Frank
Signorelli, piano; and Chauncey Morehouse, drums.
Over the next few years, I acquired every record Bix
made prior to his early death in 193 1 .
Encouraged by my interest in jazz recordings, my
cousin came up with a third suggestion for my
collection: Duke Ellington. One year prior to Louis'
and Bix's first recording, Duke and his six piece band
"The Washingtonians" with Bubber Miley, cornet;
Charlie Irvis, trombone; Otto Hardwicke, sax; Fred
Guy, banjo; Sonny Greer, drums; and Duke, piano, had
their initial commercial recording date in November
1924. I became the proud owner of every recording up
to the start of WWII and some 75% of his recordings
until his death in 1974, some 180 hours of the recorded
Duke Ellington.
Throughout the ten years prior to WWII, during my
high school and college years, my 78 RPM 10",
followed by 33 1/3 RPM LP, collection grew to the
thousands. All the big names of jazz, along with lesser
legends, were included, and I found myself with a first
class treasure of early jazz music. But I also found that
such a collection was a first-class burden when I was
moving through the post-war years with family,
financial, and other fidelity responsibilities taking
priority. I had always hoped that maybe at least one of
my kids would show an interest in my collection, so I
began making tapes that could include a chronological
compilation of my collection, along with commentary:
date and place of recording, personnel, soloists, etc.
The main reason for doing this rather major project
was to put my collection into some kind of
compendium form that would attract my children to
the music that had been of such significance in my life.
My collection amounted to over 10,000 15 hours of
tapes. I will list here most (but not all) of the Legends
included, along with the years of their recording and
the number of hours on the tapes.
No two people will agree with my selection of
Legends. I decided to choose from the years prior to
the BeBop period, i.e., before Gillespie, Bird, Monk,
Miles.
Archivist's Notes
by Kevin J. Powers
Origins
It appears, based on Mr. Niven's audio commentaries
referencing certain artists still being alive at the time of
the commentaries (for example, Buck Clayton, who
passed away in 1991, is living, and Johnny Hodges'
salary is compared to "1993 dollars"), that he put the
tape compilation together during a period of time
beginning somewhere in the mid to late 1980s and
ending somewhere in the early 1990s. His own
memory on this point is no longer clear. In my
conversations with Mr. Niven, he has indicated that the
materials in this selection of "Early Jazz Legends"
only represents about 40-50% of what he once had in
his jazz record collection. Other legends, such as
Bennie Moten and many, many others, were in his
collection did not make the "cut" for these tapes.
Mr. Niven contacted Steve Massey, Director of Music
for the Foxborough Public Schools and Director of the
Foxborough High School Jazz Program, in autumn of
2010 with an offer for the music program to
"download" the tapes for use by the students. Mr.
Niven was probably not aware of the fact that there is
no way to download cassette tapes as one would
download a CD or other digital medium to a computer.
Instead, cassette tapes, to be converted to a digital
format, must be played back in their entirety into a
15 Archivist's note: The actual figure is "over 1,000 hours of
tapes," a still very remarkable collection.
computer sound card and recorded in real-time — just
as creating a new cassette from another cassette
requires playing the entire source cassette while
recording into the copy cassette. In other words, while
a CD can be downloaded to digital audio in a minute or
so, a 90-minute cassette requires 90 minutes in order to
be converted to digital audio; a 110-minute cassette
requires 110 minutes in order to be converted to digital
audio, and so forth.
Equipment & Process
For this project, I used a TEAC AD-500 cassette deck,
a desktop computer with a modern SoundBlaster sound
card, and the audio recording program GoldWave.
Each cassette was recorded to a single WAV-format file
at 44100 kHz, 16-bit quality, to match the quality of
CD-audio. Each resulting WAV file was split at the
division between Side A and Side B of the cassette, in
order to make it possible for each WAV file to fit on a
single 80-minute CD.
I did not have the time (though perhaps someone else
will in the future) to cut the WAV files into shorter
segments for each individual tune. To have done so
would have delayed this project many years. At any
rate, much of the joy involved in listening to these
tapes is having Mr. Niven's insightful commentary as a
guide. Especially for a generation of listeners who
have grown up pulling individual MP3 files for
specific tunes off of the Internet, it is a beneficial
experience to have a jazz expert (as Mr. Niven most
definitely is) guide the listener through the life and
times of the most illustrious figures in jazz — and, in
the process, introduce the listener to numerous
recordings with which he is doubtless unfamiliar.
Although MP3 files are more common than WAV files,
only WAV files, while much larger, are complete,
uncompressed reproductions of the sound recorded by
the computer. The compression process involved in
producing an MP3 removes portions of sound.
Therefore, while this project will ultimately include a
corresponding set of high-quality MP3 files, the WAV
files will remain as a fully accurate reproduction of the
tapes.
At Steve Massey's request, I began archiving these
cassettes in November of 2010. The project was
completed in October of 201 1 . We started with Benny
Goodman Tape 1 , and we ended the initial run with the
final recordings of Duke Ellington And His Orchestra.
We then made corrected copies of about 60 tapes that
appeared to have had gaps in their initial run copies.
Liner Cards
In order to create a complete copy of all of Mr. Niven's
liner cards, I scanned each card at 400 dpi resolution.
The JPEG images that resulted are as legible as the
original liner cards. Until I or someone else type up all
of the liner card listings, we have a complete copy of
the cards.
Each card lists artist, tape number, years, and tunes.
Below the tunes is a key to the numbers next to each
tune, which indicate the source recordings. For
example "1 Cottontail" and "1 : RCA Victor LP In A
Mellotone" indicates that the recording of "Cottontail"
is from RCA Victor LP "In a Mellotone."
Condition of the Tapes
Many, if not most, of these tapes are in terrific shape,
but others are in mediocre or even poor condition. I
have rigorously and regularly cleaned, maintained, and
tested (with known excellent-condition cassettes) the
heads of the cassette deck used for this project. All
defects heard here are on the tapes themselves rather
than the deck used to play the tapes back.
Final Thoughts
This is an extraordinary collection. It has been Mr.
Niven's life's work. It represents the very finest
American music of the twentieth century, and because
Mr. Niven took the time and care to record these
commentaries, he has produced a library that is
accessible to everyone from jazz aficionados to jazz
novices. For the Foxborough High School Jazz
Program, which has enriched the lives of so many
students, this remarkable compendium of jazz
recordings should similarly enrich the program itself.
This is all made even more remarkable by the fact that,
had Mr. Niven not had the foresight to contact Steve
Massey in 2010, this entire collection may have
disappeared. How many collections of jazz like this
get junked after estate sales every year?
Thank you, David — your devotion to jazz will enrich
the musical education of hundreds of students!
Legend
David W. Niven
Collection of Legends of Jazz on 90-Minute Tapes 16
Years Recordings Made Total Hours
Trumpets
Louis Armstrong
Roy Eldridge
Bix Beiderbecke
Henry "Red" Allen
Tommy Ladnier
Bobby Hackett
Wild Bill Davison
Buck Clayton
Harry Edison
Clifford Brown
Chet Baker
Clark Terry
Ernest "Punch" Miller
1923-1972
1935-1977
1924-1930
1929-1965
1923-1938
1938-1975
1943-1980
1937-1960
1938-1978
1953-1956
1963-1965
1952-1990
1925-1930
54 hours
7.5 hours
7.5 hours
9 hours
1.5 hours
1 5 hours
12 hours
8 hours
6 hours
16.5 hours
10.5 hours
1 5 hours
1.5 hours
Trombones
KidOry
J.C. Higginbotham
Vic Dickinson
J.J. Johnson
Jack Teagarden
Lawrence Brown
Jimmy Harrison
Keg Johnson
Floyd O'Brien
Trummy Young
Big Bands
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Duke's Sidemen
Fletcher Henderson
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
California Ramblers
Andy Kirk Orchestra
Chick Webb's Orchestra
Benny Goodman
1925-1956
1928-1966
1938-1982
1946-1980
1928-1962
1930-1962
1927-1930
1933-1940
1933-?
1934-1961
1929-1972
1936-1951
1924-1937
1928-1930
1922-1926
1924-1942
1929-1939
1926-1986
7.5 hours
9 hours
7.5 hours
6 hours
1 8 hours
25.25 hours
0.75 hours
0.75 hours
1.5 hours
5 hours
192 hours
10.5 hours
9 hours
2 hours
1 hour
1.5 hours
6 hours
50 hours
Although the majority of tapes in this collection are 90-minute tapes, a large number are 60-minute tapes, 100-minute tapes, 110-
minute tapes, and 120-minute tapes.
Clarinets and Alto Saxes
Benny Carter
Johnny Hodges
Frankie Trumbauer
Pete Brown
Charlie Parker
1927-1988
1928-1970
1926-1936
1938-1957
1940-1954
21.5 hours
58.5 hours
6 hours
3 hours
14 hours
Soprano Saxes
Sydney Bechet
Clarinets
1923-1958
9 hours
Jimmie Noone
Johnnie Dodds
Frank Teschemacher
1923-1944
1923-1940
1927-1930
1.5 hours
10.5 hours
3 hours
Tenor Saxes
Coleman Hawkins
Chu Berry
Ben Webster
Bud Freeman
Lester Young
Stan Getz
Scott Hamilton
1923-1968
1933-1941
1932-1959
1927-1976
1936-1956
1945-1981
1977-1981
24 hours
7.5 hours
13.5 hours
1 5 hours
1 5 hours
1 5 hours
9.5 hours
Pianos
James P. Johnson
Thomas "Fats" Waller
Willie "The Lion" Smith
Jelly Roll Morton
Art Tatum
Teddy Wilson
Earl Hines
Joe Sullivan
Gene Schroeder
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Bill Evans
Oscar Peterson
Andre Previn
1921-1947
1922-1943
1934
1923-1938
1933-1956
1953-1980
1927-1974
1927-1961
1948-1952
1947-1971
1946-1960
1956-1979
1945-1979
1945-1958
3 hours
12 hours
1.5 hours
9 hours
12 hours
21 hours
1 5 hours
4.5 hours
4.5 hours
10.5 hours
7.5 hours
9 hours
16.5 hours
1.5 hours
Vibraphones/Xylophones
Lionel Hampton
Red Norvo
1930-1991
1933-1975
10 hours
10.5 hours
Guitars
Eddie Lang
Django Reinhardt
Charlie Christian
Joe Pass
Barney Kessel
1926-1946
1935-1953
1939-1991
1963-1983
1952-1958
6 hours
3 hours
1.5 hours
6 hours
1.75 hours
Violin
Joe Venuti
1926-1977
7.5 hours
Female Vocalists
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Dinah Washington
1923-1933
1933-1959
1954-1955
4.5 hours
12 hours
1.5 hours
Male Vocalists
Louis Armstrong
Frank Sinatra
1923-1972
1940-1978
54 hours
12 hours
Miscellaneous
Mid 40's All Stars
Mid 50's All Stars
1940s
1950s
1 hour
3 hours
