On its second album the group didn't simply sample old recordings; it wrote passages for orchestra, recorded them and turned them back into samples to be manipulated.
As a result, thanks to the national library's collection of 350,000 pre-1938 recorditgs, it was possible to digitize the same records as those missing from 1912.
When you listen to the recordings, it sounds like they could have been recorded today.
As with most of his recordings, it appears that a second take of the song was recorded and assigned a reference number.
MR: You show the essence of the song with these recordings, it doesn't rely on technology or production values for its level of quality.
If you're waiting for James Brown's final recordings, it may be a while.
Because Oliver made recordings, it is here, in 1923, that we first hear Armstrong play.
This optimism is perhaps best summed up by one of the voice recordings it carries.
Unlike recordings, it isn't identical to the previous performance or the next one.
On the recordings, it sounds like the Velvets performed in front of dozens of people at most.
If the Met really had an interest in these recordings, it would work with the unions to make more of them available at decent prices.
