NEWS
After Midnight, featuring Ford Dabney’s Syncopated Orchestras, coming in May
Ford Dabney was a founding member of the all-Black Clef Club whose reputation grew through providing the syncopated dance sounds for Flo Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic. In 1917, he began making records, and our upcoming double-CD release, After Midnight lets you discover his artistry for yourself. Features 48 tracks remastered by Grammy-winning audio engineer Richard Martin and and a 36-page booklet with notes and scholarship by Grammy-nominated author Tim Brooks. Learn more and reserve your copy today!
A Grammy nomination for The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922
The Moaninest Moan of Them All has received a Grammy nomination for Best Historical Album! Big congratulations to Team Mac, including our co-producer and co-nominee Colin Hancock, as well as Mark Berresford, who co-authored the notes. This is Archeophone’s 24th nomination overall and 9th in this category, and we’re honored that the art of Loren McMurray is being recognized. Learn more and reserve your copy today!
The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922 now available
The Moaninest Moan of Them All shines a spotlight on Loren McMurray, the singular talent who redefined the sound of saxophone on record and bridged the gap from the polite sax in the 1910s to the genre-shaping sounds of Tram, Hawk, Coltrane, Rollins, and Parker. The 2-CD set features 50 tracks remastered by Grammy-winning audio engineer Richard Martin and comes in a deluxe digipack with 80-pages of notes by Grammy-nominated authors Colin Hancock and Mark Berresford. Learn more and reserve your copy today!
TODAY IN ACOUSTIC HISTORY
- 1871 — Blanche Ring was born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1911 — Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth recorded Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man
- 1911 — Nora Bayes recorded Strawberries
- 1913 — Heidelberg Quintet recorded You're a Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby
- 1913 — Heidelberg Quintet recorded Give Me Your Hand
PRAISE FOR ARCHEOPHONE
- “In the digital age, when liner notes have been reduced to a song name scrolling across a streaming playlist, the husband-and-wife team of [Richard] Martin and Meagan Hennessey are an anomaly. They gather rarities from the earliest era of recordings, research the music and put out entire books of analysis alongside the music.”Geoff EdgersWashington Post
- “Truly epochal reissues, which unearth completely forgotten chapters of musical history. The tiny Illinois-based Archeophone label has been doing that kind of archaeology for several years now, almost single-handedly championing the popular music of the acoustic recording era.”Jody RosenSlate.com
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