Old Time Southern Dream

Old Time Southern Dream

Old Time Southern Dream

Track Listings
 
1. Not Just Another Fad
2. Guns and Guns and Guns
3. Old Time Southern Dream
4. Catskill Mountain Sugar Maple Queen
5. You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley
6. Lee the Weaver
7. Rakestraw Wood
8. For My Dad
9. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
10. Death of the Old Sequoia
11. There But for Fortune
12. Seed of Life

Old Time Southern Dream,Sammy Walker,Brambus,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Pop
Herbert L. Clarke: Original Recordings 1907-21
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Brilliant playing transcending primitive recording technique
  • The Master of the Cornet
  • Clarke is the cornet master!
  • heartbreaking music from a bygone era
  • Be careful
 Herbert L. Clarke: Original Recordings 1907-21

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003J4O
Release Date: 1996-10-01

Tracks:

  1. Bride Of The Waves
  2. The Holy City
  3. Sounds From The Hudson (Valse Brilliante)
  4. Killarney
  5. Caprice Brilliante (The Debutante)
  6. Perhaps Love's Dream Will Last Forever
  7. Carnival Of Venice
  8. Ah Cupid
  9. Bride Of The Waves
  10. Once Upon A Time
  11. Rondo Caprice (From The Shores Of The Mighty Pacific)
  12. Aloha Oe (Farewell) (Hawaiian Love Song)
  13. Russian Fantasie
  14. The Palms
  15. La Veta Caprice (Lillian)
  16. Berceuse From Jocelyn
  17. Sounds From The Hudson (Valse Brilliante)
  18. Twilight Dreams Waltz-Intermezzo
  19. Southern Cross
  20. Love's Old Sweet Song
  21. Showers Of Gold Scherzo
  22. Macushla
  23. Caprice Brilliante (The Debutante)
  24. Killarney
  25. Carnival Of Venice
  26. Stars In A Velvety Sky

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These 26 selections, recorded from 1904 to 1922, document the work of an important American player and band composer. Despite the trivial nature of most of the music, one can't help listening to Herbert Clarke's playing with respect and growing affection. He was a most elegant player, with a beautiful tone that comes across even in the earliest of these recordings. The showiest pieces, which can be quite dazzling, are still performed with taste and musicianship. This disc is an important sound document, and the transfers from even the earliest of the recordings are surprisingly listenable. Highly recommended to all brass and nostalgia lovers. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant playing transcending primitive recording technique.......2001-01-11

Hearing this CD -- despite the distracting surface noise from the primative acoustic recordings from which this CD was remastered -- I appreciate for the first time the greatness of Clarke as a cornet soloist. If he is not the greatest to date, he is surely one of the giants upon whose shoulders modern virtuosi of the trumpet (which has pretty much replaced the cornet) stand.

Clarke's sheer artistry in both composition and performance still dazzle and his interpretive ability brings to life some of the 'tear jerkers' of the golden age of popular brass music in a way no modern performance comes close to.

Although on first hearing one could be very much distracted by the primitive recordings, the brass player soon focuses on Clarke's playing so completely that the the surface noise disappears.

Every trumpet player and cornetist, more, every brass player and lover of band music, should own a copy.

5 out of 5 stars The Master of the Cornet.......2001-01-04

God bless Crystal Records for taking the time to re-issue these extremely rare and valuable recordings from an unfortunately neglected giant in American musical history. Most people today don't realise how famous and influential Mr. Clarke and his peers (Sousa, Pryor et. al.)were on the American musical scene at the beginning of the Twentieth century. It is very important that these recordings (and others from this period, the birth of sound recording) be preserved for future generations.

As for those who could not stand the "hiss" on these recordings, how spoiled can you be? You simply miss the point of all this. We all know that these records were made during the infancy of the recording industry, and that they didn't have the technology we now have. I find it thrilling to listen to them just as they are. Recorded sound is the closest we have to time travel, and I find it fascinating to listen to these recordings as though I was there when they were first made. And most of all, through the marvel of recorded sound (Mr. Sousa notwithstanding) I can listen today to the greatest cornetist who ever lived, even though he passed away over 50 years ago.

Hopefully Crystal Records will someday put out an anthology of original Sousa and Pryor Band recordings.

5 out of 5 stars Clarke is the cornet master!.......2000-08-03

Herbert Clarke is the finest cornetist the planet has ever seen. The technical brilliance on Carnival is just breathtaking. The sound quality of the recording is little hinderance on the true genius behind this man's playing. Don't let the hiss bother you!!!

5 out of 5 stars heartbreaking music from a bygone era.......2000-03-22

These vintage recordings would have been otherwise lost to us--and a great loss at that. Clarke plays so beautifully, esp. those pieces that he wrote. It's notall oom-paa-paa, but music that is deeply affecting and stirring.This is the effect that Wynton Marsalis was going for in his "Carneval." While Marsalis's album is a wonderful tribute, this is the original. A must-have for any serious trumpet player.

1 out of 5 stars Be careful.......1999-09-14

Watch out if you want to buy this cd! It's a good cd with Herbert Clarke playing some of his own pieces the way they should be played...but the recording is TERRIBLE! Naturally, it's a 1904 recording! But the hiss for the first half of the cd is almost painful. It's NOT something you can just ignore, so don't be caught unawares.
Old Time Southern Dream
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Sammy's still out there
 Old Time Southern Dream
Sammy Walker
Manufacturer: Brambus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
Traditional FolkTraditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008RH33
Release Date: 2003-04-15

Tracks:

  1. Not Just Another Fad
  2. Guns and Guns and Guns
  3. Old Time Southern Dream
  4. Catskill Mountain Sugar Maple Queen
  5. You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley
  6. Lee the Weaver
  7. Rakestraw Wood
  8. For My Dad
  9. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
  10. Death of the Old Sequoia
  11. There But for Fortune
  12. Seed of Life

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Sammy's still out there.......2005-12-03

From North Carolina to you, Phil Ochs' protege proves his worth again by marrying tradition and topical in a quiet civil ceremony. Walker plays instruments he builds himself, and this recording has the nice informal feel of a good home recording. It would be great to see him at the Woody Guthrie festival in Okemah Oklahoma, because he would be the star attraction.

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