'Candlelights'--Jess Stacy (1939).

Discussions on Records, Recording, & Artists
Post Reply
User avatar
Viva-Tonal
Victor II
Posts: 399
Joined: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:00 pm
Location: Mountain Home, Arkansas USA

'Candlelights'--Jess Stacy (1939).

Post by Viva-Tonal »

Here's something I'd found at a used record shop for 50 cents in 1988: A Commodore 78 of pianist Jess Stacy playing one of the few pieces Bix Beiderbecke ever wrote. There are some small scratches on the record, but unfortunately it seems like Milt Gabler got the worst-quality pressings ARC could put out, for his Commodore records. Pity he couldn't have, or didn't, have ARC make them on laminated, top-quality Columbia-type pressings, as ARC still used them for what few Columbia items they were making.

Actually, this was recorded in the transition period between when CBS bought ARC (December 1938) and the launch of the red-label Columbia records (September 1939), on the first anniversary of Commodore's maiden recordings with Eddie Condon's Windy City Seven (on which sessions Stacy also participated), 18 January 1939.

Commodore 517, matrix P.23989-1.

Enjoy!

Post Reply