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Early Networking: Intercontinental Jam Session

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Regular readers of this blog may know that I collect records – “vinyl,” “LPs,” “33s”, “78s,” “45s” – I even have Edison disks and cylinders (and the related players).

Mine is a formal record library, with sections for Rock, Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, early Country, Classical, Folk – maybe a few other genres…

Recently I stumbled across a most interesting jazz album, recorded and released in 1959, entitled “One World Jazz.”  It involves 15 leading jazzmen – but don’t mistake it for “Big Band” – it’s in the pocket of that nice late-‘50s/early’60s progressive jazz, of which I’m particularly fond.

But here’s the amazing thing:  This session bridged three continents, and the cities are New York, Stockholm, Paris, and London – with musicians on one laying down tracks, with subsequent shipment of tapes to the second continent and addition of additional musicians, and then to the third continent, and… you get the idea.

Of course, today this would be a small feat:  digital files can be swapped around the world almost immediately, for contributions and additions of all sorts.  In fact, soon – if not already – it will be possible to be jammin’ live, in real time, with any number of people, dispersed around the globe.  Imagine:  Sitting in a room, either alone or with a few other players, and having some video and speaker monitors in the room – your intercontinental friends are in the band in a “virtual” sense, and you collaborate and lay down tracks.  Pretty powerful.

For those interested, the LP is on Columbia, with catalog number WL 162.  Musicians are:

In New York:  J.J. Johnson, trombone; Ben Webster, tenor saxophone,Clark Terry, trumpet;  Hank Jones; piano; Kenny Burrell, guitar; George Duvivier, bass; Jo Jones, drums.

In Stockholm:  Ake Persson, trombone.

In Paris:  Stephane Grappelly, violin; Martial Solal, piano; Roger Guerin, trumpet; Bob Garcia, tenor saxophone.

In London:  Ronnie Ross, baritone saxophone; George Chisholm, trombone; Roy East, alto saxophone.

NP:  One World Jazz, Columbia, WL 162


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