Saturday, September 17, 2011

Brevity is the soul of wit

 Sometimes I buy LPs from Discogs. There are a few times when it feels like I payed an arm and a leg for something that's not even worth the bandwidth it took to view the listing but, overall I enjoy it.
Another thing I do is use archive.org for public domain jazz music from the very early part of the 20th century.
Most of the time the ID3 tags are completely screwed up but whatever, it's not the end all and be all of the world.
Once in a while I'll hear something I feel is exceptionally great, from a musician with a career so brief, I can't help but wonder what else they could of came up with.

Case in point: Mildred Hunt was a Hungarian actress, her real was Hermin Solti.
If she had continued with music I can imagine a sort of Ziegfeld Follies spectacle, sort of.
I think the song is cute, typical of flapper-jazz-vampire types.
















And at the other end of the twentieth century, these guys made three albums.
Two of them I bought off Discogs, the other one was apparently damaged so I didn't.
They weren't around very long, but managed to have a music video.


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