Trumbology - Frank Trumbauer Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - New York, NY February 4, 1927

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Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra
Trumbology (mx 80391-C)
New York, NY February 4, 1927
Okeh 40871
78.26 RPM

Frank Trumbauer, Cm, dir: Bix Beiderbecke, c / Bill Rank, tb / Jimmy Dorsey, cl, as / Paul Mertz, p, a / Howdy Quicksell, bj / Chauncey Morehouse, d.

The first side recorded during the much-written-about Singin' The Blues session was a Frank Trumbauer showpiece.

Something I hadn't really noticed before was that the Okeh recording equipment must have been a bit out of calibration or the engineer was a bit careless that day, because there is a really distorted passage at 2:30. I fixed it to the extent possible, but the distortion is really buried in the music. There's a similarly-distorted passage in Clarinet Marmalade in the piano solo about a minute in.