TRUMPET BLUES played by Donald Lindley, 15 Jan 1926.

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NOT BIX! There were American jazz virtuosi in the 1920s whose name was not Beiderbecke (!), and the forgotten DONALD LINDLEY was one of the best of the New York trumpet soloists, with several tutorial booklets on jazz to his credit, as well as recording for Edison and Columbia. This is one of his earliest and most interesting jazz experiments, recorded by the pre-electric process for Edison on 15th January 1926 - a significant date. Old Tom Edison was renowned for hating jazz, and he interfered endlessly with the musical output of his own recording company, right back to its earliest efforts in 1889. Finally, in 1925, at the age of 78, Thomas Edison retired from direct involvement in recording, leaving the hiring jobs to his sons Charles and Theodore. They seem to have scoured New York's night spots of the Prohibition age for available talent in the last four years of the Edison company's recording activity - 1925 to 1929. These four minutes of extended jazz trumpet invention by Don Lindley with pianist Arthur Schutt and drummer Dave Grupp (also playing a kazoo, or maybe a 'duck call') was one of the first results of the Edison company's more serious foray into jazz. The limitations of the pre-electric process are evident on the disc - the drums are somewhat distant and the muted trumpet a little too close, but there was no 'microphone mixing' possible with acoustic recording, other than the placement of the instruments with respect to the sound-collecting recorder horns. One of the oddest and most musically interesting jazz recordings ever issued on the Edison label, in my humble opinion. I have been unhappy with all previous remasterings of this, so I've done my own, here... I used an audio spectrum "waterfall" graph of the recording's acoustic content, then tried to match that to a modern spectral analysis of a similar recorded instrumental combination, using digital graphic and parametric equalisers to do the matching.