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Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol conceived the melody to "Caravan" in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico, where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up. This "inversion" technique led to a modal sound throughout Tizol's work - wikipedia entry for "modal jazz"

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Offline Vermonter

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digitizing the Boston Public Library Collection
« on: October 27, 2017, 10:12:48 AM »
Anybody know anything more about this? Any possibility of some blues discoveries? Looks like we'll have to live a while longer to find out.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/boston-public-library-vinyl-digitization?
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Offline oddenda

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Re: digitizing the Boston Public Library Collection
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2017, 05:47:21 PM »
I would not get too excited - this sounds like a collection of commercial recordings only... no field recordings. That's my initial response!

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Re: digitizing the Boston Public Library Collection
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2017, 04:34:49 PM »
The chances of finding something previously unknown, but that we're interested in, are pretty slim as Peter says. However, it's certainly a worthy endeavor that will preserve an important part of social and cultural history. And one never knows what is hidden in the archives.

There was a short piece on TV out here about something tangential:

http://crosscut.com/2017/08/record-collection-japanese-immigrants-music-jccw/

https://kcts9.org/programs/borders-heritage-local-stories/records-history-music-collection-early-japanese-immigrant

One thing mentioned that I hadn't been aware of was that some of the records were pressed with only one side having music. The other side was blank.
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