Johnny Guarnieri

[hopkins]

Back to Guarnieri! Here is a very nice track from the "Echoes of Ellington" album: https://storage.googleapis.com/cloudplayer/samples/Johnny Guarnieri - Mississippi Moan.wav

And the original, recorded in 1929: https://storage.googleapis.com/cloudplayer/samples/Ellington - Mississippi Moan.wav

[hopkins]

An interesting bit of trivia, about that Guarnieri session (quoted from Tom Lord):

"The performances on this album were captured on a Stahnke Reproducing Piano, a normal piano fitted with a computerized recording/playback system. When a pianist plays on this piano, the movements of all the parts of the piano action -- keys, hammers, pedals, etc.-- are measured and stored digitally on tape. When this tape is played back, the piano itself plays a performance identical to the original. Johnny Guarnieri was not present when the performances were recorded onto the audio tapes which were used for the mastering of both LP and CD. This technology was used here for the first time under the supervision of its inventor, Wayne Stahnke."

More information in this NYT article: Technology; Ivories That Tickle Themselves https://nyti.ms/29jiabo

Pretty cool... 

 

Edited March 25, 2023 by hopkins

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