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by lipi » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:22 pm
Editorial comments about the practice of speeding up recordings for performances aside, it's the 1945 V-Disc recording, indeed sped up some.
NYC, 1945-05-14
Clayton, Edison, George, Killian, Lewis (tp), Donnelly, Johnson, Robinson, Wells (tb), Powell, Warren (as), Tate, Thompson (ts), Rutherford (bs, cl), CB (p), Green (g), Richardson (b), Wilson (d), Jimmy Rushing (vcl)
It sounds way better on CD than it does in that video. Some combination of having edited the track, playing it over that sound system, and, likely most to blame, an on-camera mic muffled it.
You can find it on Jazz Archives 76, "The Golden Years, Vol. 4: 1944/45 (The V-Discs)." That whole series of four or five CDs is worth getting. There's an old thread somewhere on this forum where Matthew waxes prosaic about these CDs at some length, IIRC.