78 RPM - Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men - St. Louis Blues / Jazz Me Blues - Climax - Germany

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men
Label:	Climax
Country:	Germany
Catalogue:	44
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Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men	St. Louis Blues	W. C. Handy	Rate
B	Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men	Jazz Me Blues	Tom Delaney	Rate

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A German-Climax Record of Sidney Bechets Blue Note Jazzmen classics. Climax-Records is the German equivalent to the US-Blue-Note-Records. Climax-Records was located in Cologne, Germany.
Recorded in December 1944, released during the 1950s decade.

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55bluesman 31st Dec 2013		Hi 78rpm-maniac, thanks for your research. Very interesting facts; I´ve uploaded a CLIMAX-EP, that is obviously from 1957 or a little bit later on 45cat (see here). The first 45 rpm vinyl- records in Germany are released in 1953.



78rpm-maniac 31st Dec 2013		I have new Information in case of the recordcompany CLIMAX: Founded in Cologne, Germany by a Company called Excelsior/Hocheder GmbH & Co.KG. The Company eleased 78rpm records and 45rpm records from 1951-1953, by using the US-Matrixes from Blue-Note under use of the original catalogue numbers from the US-Releases. Later on the Company Excelsior-Hocheder released LP-Albums with documentary-content, e.g. Politicans speeches.



78rpm-maniac 30th Dec 2013		Hi xiphophilos, yes the ODEON-Swing-Music Series is very desireable in very good condition. Sometime it is difficult to say when the records had been released in Germany accurately. After 1945 the German recordcomanies used the war or pre-war matrixes, and re-released old recorded material. If all Members of well known Jazzbands survived the second world war some started with the recording of new material. Just look at the catalouge-number e.g. Brunswick: the very first ones had three Digits, followed in the years with four Digits and the youngest records had 5 Digits as catalouge-nr. Sometimes you can only guess the release date. Sometimes the graphic-design of the Label had changed into new coloures or new writings before or after the war. A good discography - book about all recorded 78rpm records in Germany is the following one: Author: Horst-H. Lange, Die 78er Hot-Dance-Discography from 1908-1958. All records, who belonged to Ragtime or Jazz, wich had been released in Germany are listed in this book, with lable Information, recording-dates and band-members.



xiphophilos 30th Dec 2013		I've loved the Odeon Swing Music Series, in particular, ever since I was introduced to Jazz. My local library owned re-releases of this series on LP. Regarding the date question, my confusion stems from the fact that the Date field under Record Details is supposed to give the release date (which is, of course, often not easy to determine). The recording date should be mentioned in the Notes. I'd love to know when Climax actually issued these titles in Germany. I have a German Odeon (Harry James' "Trumpet Blues and Cantabile") where I am similarly unsure about the release date, but know it must have been post-war.



78rpm-maniac 29th Dec 2013		Hi 55bluesman and xiphophilos, the recording-date is mentioned and not the release-date of that record. Yes of course the climax-records had been released in the first half of the 1950s in Germany, but several record-companies released jazz-swing-Music during the Third-Reich-Administration, like Brunswick, ODEON, American-Lindström-Record, ODEON-Swing-Music-Series, Grammophon and Polydor-Records, especially Polydor for Export.



55bluesman 29th Dec 2013		I also think that this 78 is not released in 1944 (that´s unbelievable....war time, Hitler/Goebbels had not allowed to release this stuff in "Nazi-Germany"). This 78 is released in the 50´s.



xiphophilos 29th Dec 2013		Nice addition! How likely, though, is it that this record was released in Germany in Dec. 1944? December 20, 1944 is only the recording date.

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