The Complete Pathe Recordings

The Complete Pathe Recordings

Between 1926 and 1928 Jimmy Lytell recorded some eighteen solo titles for PathÃ©, usually accompanied by piano and banjo or guitar. They show steady development, keeping pace with the increasingly sophisticated harmonic and melodic vocabulary of the time, while remaining curiously inert rhythmically. His phrasing is quite foursquare, tidy patterns that always conform to the two - and four-bar phrases of the songs and invariably land on the downbeat of a bar. Its effect is comparable, perhaps, to that of a prose passage constructed entirely of declarative sentences in subject-predicate-object order. There are moments when the ear longs for a subordinate clause, alternation of phrase lengths, anything asymmetrical. No one at PathÃ© could have expected that these records would have scholars like Richard Sudhalter waxing eloquent nearly 75 years later. Nor were they created as limited editions for collectors. Like almost everything else from the Twenties that we now enshrine in discographies and on our shelves as genuine 'Jazz,' Jimmy Lytell's clarinet solos were musical inventory, produced because PathÃ© calculated that the records might sell.
Country USA
Manufacturer Jazz Oracle
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber unknown
ReleaseDate 2013-02-19
UnitCount 1
UPCs 620588806926
EANs 0620588806926

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