Charley Christian Jazz Immortal 1941 live at Mintons Playhouse Monroes Uptown House Charlie
Swing to Bop (Topsy) Stompin at the Savoy Up on Teddy s Hill Guy s Got to Go Lips Flips. A Columbia University student, Jerry Newman, made most of these afterhours recordings on a portable disk recorder in 1941 at Minton s Playhouse in the Hotel Cecil, 210 West 118th Street in Harlem. This technology let him record significantly longer takes than current 78 rpm technology would allow. (There were then no commonly available magnetic tape recorders although one from AEG, called the Magnetophon K1,
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