{"id":3585,"date":"2011-07-06T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2011-07-06T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:45:21","slug":"78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-the-manhattan-jazz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-the-manhattan-jazz-band\/","title":{"rendered":"78 rpm Records of Indian Music: The Manhattan Jazz Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a change of pace: a disc from the “Manhattan Jazz Band,” released on the Calcutta-based Zonophone label. My best guess is this was from some point in the 1920s or 30s; the music is what was called jazz at the time \u2014 by people who didn’t know what jazz was.<\/p>\n

In the late 1990s I picked up a great many 78s at a small store in Bombay’s Chor Bazaar. Among them were a few of these recordings of “English Music.” Apparently these were mostly recorded in England and released in India, for the enjoyment of the Brits. I had a brief fantasy that these were Indian musicians hired to play this repertoire, which would have been ethnomusicologically fascinating. Turns out that’s not what happened. Ah, well.<\/p>\n

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The amount of crud on the surface of the disc is beyond imagination.<\/p>\n

Enjoy “Everybody’s Jazzing Now”:<\/p>\n

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And here’s “That Big Jazz Band”:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a change of pace: a disc from the “Manhattan Jazz Band,” released on the Calcutta-based Zonophone label. My best guess is this was from some point in the 1920s or 30s; the music is what was called jazz at the time \u2014 by people who didn’t know what jazz was. In the late 1990s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,34,7,23,9],"tags":[946,953,954],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-india","category-indian-music","category-jazz","category-music","tag-78-rpm-discs","tag-early-jazz","tag-novelty-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}