What is the oldest original artist recording in your collection?

Jimi Hendrix. Are you Experienced?

 

According to my Itunes, it's The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold as Love, from 1967.

But i have stuff By Django Reinhardt, which must be older, they just have no date on them.

 

With The Beatles 1963

 

miles davis birth of the cool - 1949

50's i have sam cooke and johnny cash

 

Blind Willie Johnson - 1927 (discography linked here)

there's a chance that I have some classical music that's even older, I'd have to check the dates.

 

Original "Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings" by Mississippi John Hurt. Great stuff!

 

Carter Family and other recordings from Bristol from the twenties. I probably have some old time recordings from before then.

 

I have the 6 LP set of the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz.

I guess the oldest recording on that would be Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag taken from a piano roll made in 1919 by Scott Joplin.


http://www.discogs.com/Various-Smithsonian-Collection-Of-Classic-Jazz/release/969390

 

I have some Sinatra from the 40's.

 

Django Reinhardt from the 30´s.

 

Discounting the classical stuff, there is the Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert and a Son House recording likley from the 20's.

All on vinyl btw.

 

What is the oldest Original recording ever?

 

I uploaded a Jascha Heifetz vinyl to my itunes that's from sometime in the early 30s. He's one of my FAVORITE violinists ever. Here's a video of him playing one of my FAVORITE pieces ever (Paganini's Caprice No. 24).. DOUBLE SWEET!

*at 3:49 your mind will explode

 

I've got a CD somewhere which is Mahler plays Mahler from 1903 in stereo!!

This might sound impossible - but what it is, is a stereo audio recording of a piano roll made by the great composer Gustav Mahler. So it was a paper system for "recording" what was played by the pianist exactly - inflections, dynamics etc.

It sounds great by the way - Hi Fi quality sound !

 

The Complete Recordings of Rachmaninoff

 

I need to own this. I LOVE Mahler, especially after playing some of his amazing bass parts on Tuba.

 

I've got a vinyl record set from the 70's of all of Glenn Miller's albums. So those recordings are late 30's/early 40's.

 

It's available on UK Amazon :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Play...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249160188&sr=8-3