#triviatuesday - What album is “widely believed to be the first Jazz LP ever released?”
Vinyl’s back, Baby!
If you’re a child of the ‘60s, ‘70s or well before, you probably grew up listening to long-playing, vinyl music albums (LPs) and their smaller kin, the 45 rpm records. Even the hardcover slips that encased LPs were works of art with their enchanting, often outlandish, but always creative, images.
You may have thought them all doomed to the dustbin of music history.
But, vinyl lovers, you would be wrong.
An apparent vinyl resurgence has taken over the country, according to news reports. Even the city of Middletown can boast of a music store that specializes in “new and vintage LPs, compact discs, cassettes and 8-track tapes” and more…” So popular has the store become that it plans to expand to a larger location.*
To celebrate the comeback of vinyl, we present our TriviaTuesday question with a nod to the book, “Goldmine’s Essential Guide to Record Collecting”:
Q : What album is “widely believed to be the first Jazz LP ever released?”
A : “Released in 1949, Charlie Parker’s ‘Bird Blows The Blues’ is widely believed to be the first jazz LP ever released...other jazz artists swiftly migrated, likewise, to the new format: by the end of 1949, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington all revolved at 33, taking advantage of the new format’s sonic versatility to expand their musical horizons far beyond the confines of the old 78…” **
Sources:
*From “Store outgrows downtown locale” by Ed Richter, Journal-News, March 31, 2019.
**From “Goldmine’s Essential Guide to Record Collecting” by Dave Thompson. Published in 2017 by F + W Media. Available for checkout at MidPointe Library.
Image of Charlie Parker, “Birdland” [New York City] from
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID%3Asiris_arc_283945&repo=DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)
Into record collecting?
Look no further than MidPointe Library! Use your free library card to also check out “Goldmine -- Record Album Price Guide, 10th Edition” (2019) by Dave Thompson, as well as the Goldmine guide mentioned above.
If you’re not a collector, but still love music, check out MidPointe’s diverse on-shelf and e-offerings representing numerous musical genres.
Go to: www.midpointelibrary.org > Catalog Search
Or…
www.midpointelibrary.org > eLibrary > Music.
