James P. Johnson "acetates"
pardon my lack of knowledge about jazz music but i have ten acetates from james p. johnson that are from 1928 and have no idea what to do with them, i do know he is the father of stride piano and i am sure these are of some sort of importance but what should i do with them?
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my old professor, david baker, is the conductor of the smithsonian jazz masterworks orchestra, and so is close with gunther schuller and many others who have studied those early stride recordings very closely.
if you wanted to donate them to the smithsonian, or to a jazz historian like david baker (or another), i'm sure you could end up with a very great transfer of the acetates (better than you could ever make yourself) on cd that will always sound pristine, and, if they're unreleased acetates (as recordings made on that format sometimes are) you would be contributing immensely to the body of knowledge we have about both james p. johnson and early jazz! especially because james p. johnson's rhythmic approach
i have another friend, brent, who is the jazz specialist for the smithsonian, and he does all the transcribing, research and catalog work there (he did all the work with the smithsonian's ellington archives in the 90s and 00s). if you wanted to, i could put you in touch with either of those people, and maybe they could give you a better idea of what you can do with your acetates.
other than that, i guess you could put them on ebay, or something, and maybe a collector would want them. i'm not sure, i'm not really much of a collector. i mean, i like to have a large music collection, but anything rare and historic i come across i leave to the researchers, who can use it to contribute to a wider body of human knowledge, or to the nutcases (collectors!).
hm
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