Post by alunsevern on Sept 22, 2016 12:20:20 GMT
This is a bit off-topic, but for anyone who enjoys stuff about record collecting in all its manifestations, you may like Nate Goyer's website, The Vinyl Guide. It's primarily a podcast website about just about all aspects of vinyl collecting. Be warned -- it barely touches jazz. However, the podcasts are very well done and genuinely instructive. I have just been listening to the two-part interview with collector/conservator-extraordinaire, John Tefteller, who has one of the largest -- and perhaps *the* largest -- collections of pre-war blues 78s in the world. Part One; Part Two.
Tefteller's story of how he unearthed two immense collections of texts, promotional materials, photographs, adverts and dealer brochures from the Paramount company, while not about records, is utterly fascinating. It included one of the only known images -- other than a head shot -- of blues giant, Charlie Patton. It was on the front of the only known copy of Paramount's 1929 dealer calendar -- and it was this which inspired Teftellet to curate an annual calendar of pre-war blues, with period adverts and digital transfers from some of the rarest restored/refurbished 78s.
Now, the weird thing is, I'm not even a blues enthusiast. I would even go as far as to say that listening to blues (even blues-based jazz!) bores me. But for some reason I found this particular two-part interviews with Tefteller compelling.
Like I said, it isn't jazz but I've no doubt it will wile away an hour or two for some here
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Tefteller's story of how he unearthed two immense collections of texts, promotional materials, photographs, adverts and dealer brochures from the Paramount company, while not about records, is utterly fascinating. It included one of the only known images -- other than a head shot -- of blues giant, Charlie Patton. It was on the front of the only known copy of Paramount's 1929 dealer calendar -- and it was this which inspired Teftellet to curate an annual calendar of pre-war blues, with period adverts and digital transfers from some of the rarest restored/refurbished 78s.
Now, the weird thing is, I'm not even a blues enthusiast. I would even go as far as to say that listening to blues (even blues-based jazz!) bores me. But for some reason I found this particular two-part interviews with Tefteller compelling.
Like I said, it isn't jazz but I've no doubt it will wile away an hour or two for some here
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