Jazz Articles about Jimmy Blythe

Jimmy Blythe: Messin' Around Blues

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 23, 2011

I rulli per pianoforte meccanico rappresentano un affascinante punto d'incontro fra le prassi musicali di Ottocento e Novecento. Vi ritroviamo un'epoca basata sulla pratica amatoriale casalinga, raccolta attorno al pianoforte (dove si eseguivano i cosiddetti light classic ma anche i nuovi ragtime freschi di stampa) e l'era della musica riprodotta, ascoltata più volte seduti in poltrona. Tramite i rulli, prima incisi a mano, poi durante esecuzioni reali, possiamo ascoltare Scott Joplin, arricchire la conoscenza di George Gershwin, J.P. Johnson, addirittura ...

Jimmy Blythe: Messin' Around Blues

by Nic Jones
March 22, 2008

The more time passes the sharper the light it shines on this music. Audio restoration has enhanced the quality of these pianola rolls made by a musician who was in right at the very beginnings of jazz. He was recording in Chicago before the end of 1927 in the company of clarinetist Johnny Dodds and others, and his feel for and innate understanding of the music is abundantly obvious here.

An ethical debate could rage over the enhancement of the ...