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20. Aug. 2016 · Melancholy Blues, recorded by Meade "Lux" Lewis on Jan. 6th, 1939. It was the very first issue of a 'Blue Note Record'. Visual background - the actress Joan Crawford. ...more.
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Blue Note 1-A (444-11)WMGM Radio Station, New York, January 6, 1939
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- Hot Jazz 78rpms
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- The Origins of Boogie-Woogie
- The Recording of Blue Note’s First Record
- Marketing Blue Note’s Debut Release
- Blue Note’s Next Steps
Lion was certainly excited: he loved the boogie-woogie and blues piano that the two men played, and he was not alone. Boogie-woogie was all the rage. Typically the form is twelve-bar blues with a consistent bass pattern played with the left hand, while the right hand carries the melody. Most significantly, the rhythm makes it impossible not to tap ...
To record Blue Note’s debut release, Lion booked studio time for January 6, 1939, at a location thought to have been radio station WMGM on the West Side of Manhattan. Besides the pianists and the engineer, it seems likely that Lion was the only other person present. Having brought whiskey to lubricate the pianists’ fingers, Lion, in his role as “pr...
March 3, 1939 was the release date for the first two Blue Note recordings. On Blue Note 1 were two slow blues tunes, “Melancholy” and “Solitude” that were takes 11 and 12 performed by Lewis. Blue Note 2consisted of two numbers by Ammons with a quicker tempo, “Boogie Woogie Stomp” and “Boogie Woogie Blues.” With no real distribution in place, Lion o...
Two releases do not make a record label. Five weeks after their first two records came out, Lion was back in the studio for Blue Note’s second session. This one was a full-blown affair, led by trumpeter Frankie Newton and trombonist J. C. Higginbotham. Albert Ammons played piano, Teddy Bunn guitar, Johnny Williams was on bass, and “Big Sid,” Sidney...
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