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Hemidemisemiquaver--Buried Treasures of the Raymond Scott Big Band

The Raymond Scott Big Band (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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THE REAL REAL GONE STORY

In 1993, two Ohio boys, Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana, both separately started businesses—Collectors' Choice Music and Hep Cat Records --that were to become two of the most important outlets for buyers and sellers of vintage music recordings. Now, 18 years later, they have joined forces to launch Real Gone Music, a reissue label dedicated to serving both the collector community and the casual music fan with a robust release schedule combining big-name artists with esoteric cult favorites.

Real Gone Music is a music company dedicated to combing the vaults for sounds that aren't just gone—they're REAL GONE.

What makes a piece of music real gone? It can be from any era, any genre, from superstar acts or the most overlooked artist—but if it's REAL GONE, it's an essential recording coming to you with excellent sound and packaging, designed to make you feel like you did the first time you bought an album or single at your local record store.

And, unique among American indie reissue labels, our release schedule is going to feature about ten titles per month. Because there is still a lot of music out there to rediscover, savor and celebrate.

"Get real gone…for a change!"

Track Listings

1	Carrier Pigeon
2	Four Beat Shuffle
3	The Beard
4	Hemi Demi Semi
5	In A Magic Garden
6	Mr Basie Goes To Washington
7	LimeHouse Blues
8	Toonerville Trolley
9	Section A
10	Enchanted Forest
11	Eight Letters In My Mailbox
12	Cozy Cole Drum Solo
13	Roxy Special
14	Naked City
15	Peanut Vendor
16	Casbah Blues
17	Section C
18	Tijuana
19	37th Secret
20	Jeep Jump
21	Get Happy
22	Break The
23	Carrier Pigeon (alt take)
24	Minuet In Jazz
25	Cozy Cole Drum Solo (alt take)
26	American In Russia

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Raymond Scott is best known as the composer of famous tunes that pop up throughout Warner Bros cartoons. In the late 'Thirties, his celebrated Raymond Scott Quintette was a huge commercial success, a singular ensemble playing a unique and unmistakable style of jazz, full of whimsy and bravura. By the late 'Forties, he had become an electronic music pioneer, both as an instrument inventor and composer. His music is everywhere these days, not just cartoons. For example, Lizzo's recent hit 'Tempo' samples (sips from?) his 'Nescafe,' and he is heard in the recent Netflix hit show Hollywood. The lost chapter between the Quintette and his electronic music was every bit as compelling, starting with the first multiracial radio big band, the 'CBS Big Band'whose ranks included legends Ben Webster, Cozy Cole, and Charlie Shavers. Not only did this unit swing hard, they could also execute the intricate passages for which he was so famous. Hemidemisemiquaver: Buried Treasures of the Raymond Scott Big Band collects 26 exciting cuts, mostly unreleased radio broadcasts recorded by Scott himself and restored by Gavin Ross at Steady Studio in Burbank, CA. The package features photos from the Scott family archive and extensive liner notes penned by Scott scholar Skip Heller, who co-produced this volume with Scott's son, Stan Warnow. Indispensable for Raymond Scott fans or any big band fan for that matter!

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.55 x 0.51 inches; 0.71 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Real Gone Music
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2020
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2020
Label ‏ : ‎ Real Gone Music
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08DSTHN6L
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Oscar Ruby

Good addition to my collection

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2021

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Tbone Monster

Incredible Music!

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021

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This is unexpectedly great music from someone whose name should be known by all - just as his music is!

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Karl Pearson

Disappointed!

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021

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Was really looking forward to this release. But the digital restoration work has been overdone. Too much noise reduction applied to the point that the high frequencies are lopped off and badly impacted. A real shame.

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PH-50

Sadly, the CD mastering sound quality compromises some great music

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020

Raymond Scott's 1940s big band is less celebrated than his 1930s "Quintette", but you can hear the big band on this CD, on "Toonerville Trolley", a 2005 release from Jasmine records, and on a couple of 1984 releases that can be bought as downloads, "The Uncollected: Raymond Scott and His Orchestra" (v.1&2).
Both this CD and "Toonerville Trolley" suffer from the "NoNoise mastering disease" that afflicted many CDs of historical recordings released in the 1980s, though this CD is a bit worse. The "Uncollected" albums do sound a bit livelier.
Very briefly, mastering engineers who suffer from NoNoise disease try to eliminate all the surface noise from source discs recorded in the pre-magnetic tape era (usually "metal masters", commercially-released 78s, or acetate discs). This is achieved either through fancy software, or through more old-fashioned equalization, but the end result is usually to remove a lot of high frequency sound (think cymbals, the overtones of brass and reed instruments, the sparkle of the piano's high register). Often at the same time they artificially boost the bass frequencies in an attempt to please modern ears used to bass-heavy recordings. The end result often sounds like you are listening to a recording through a pillow or wall, with the tone knob turned all the way over to the "bass" side. The alternative is, yes, to have a CD that sometimes sounds a bit more like a scratchy record, but that also sounds more "alive" and life-like. (To be fair, it's possible the source material for these recordings was poorly recorded and the recordings were intended to be ephemeral, to just be played once or twice over the radio and discarded. Maybe the original engineers in the 1940s used haphazard mic placement, maybe the original discs were lost and only degraded tape source remain--could be a lot of things at play here.)
I addition to the overall muffled sound here, there are, as another reviewer wrote, sonic artifacts due to the audio processing...certain frequencies briefly flare up in one channel or the other (even though these are not stereo recordings). To be clear, this isn't the worst sounding disc of historical recordings I've ever heard. It's listenable. You can hear what Scott was up to in these arrangements pretty well. You can hear some good Ben Webster tenor sax. It sounds better than most "air checks" (records recorded from radio broadcasts, typically where a band was playing live at a ballroom or club somewhere).

So, is the sound bad enough that you shouldn't buy the disc? Depends if you are a serious Raymond Scott collector or just dipping your toe in the water. If you are a collector, you probably have most of the CDs on the market that don't suffer from poor mastering, and your choice is to hear a bit of previously unknown music or have nothing at all. It's probably a no-brainer for collectors to get this disc. The booklet is nice, with great liner notes (clearly the project was a labor of love, and thus it pains me to write anything critical of it).

If you are newer to Raymond Scott, this shouldn't be in your "top 5 Raymond Scott purchases" list. Start with the essential "Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights" disc. I'd also recommend getting the modern big band recordings by the Metropole Orchestra ("The Chesterfield Arrangements" and "Kodachrome"), and "Microphone Music", which is more good stuff by the 1930s Quintette. Then seek out "Toonerville Trolley", the "Uncollected" sets, and this disc.

For historical recordings like this, very often there is only one shot at producing a CD to make the music available for future generations (aside from exceptional artists like Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington). It's a big disappointment when the mastering tries to cater to casual listeners' first impressions and robs the music of its vitality. After all, listeners can always turn down the treble frequencies themselves if they are really so offended by surface noise. This may well be the only version of these tracks that ever appear on streaming services, and people in 80 years could be listening to these dead-sounding masters and going 'meh'.
Let's hope not. Maybe we'll get lucky and these recordings can be better mastered, and will appear in a better edition someday. With the decline of physical media, I can imagine the Raymond Scott archive offering multiple masterings of these recordings as downloads, giving listeners the choice.

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Allan Perry

Welcome addition

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2020

This album collects mostly unissued airchecks from Scott’s personal archive, produced by his son, Stan Warnow and Skip Heller. It highlights his work as a leader of a big band and as such is not quite as idiosyncratic as the later Quintette. Dates from late Thirties to early Fifties. Sound is about what one would expect from airchecks from that time. There are a few songs he did not write, so we get to hear him as an arranger, and what that means to a piece like “Peanut Vendor.”
A welcome addition to the body of work of Mr. Scott.

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E.A. McInerney

Rare gems

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2020

This unearthed musical treasure trove is a wonderful discovery for seasoned Raymond Scott followers and neophytes alike. Together producers’ Skip Heller and Stan Warnow (also Scott’s son) along with the steerage and support of sound engineer Gavin Ross, and record label Real Gone Music, have created a wonderfully comprehensive and complete anthology album spanning Scott’s big band radio performances during the 1940’s. Also with an amazing line up of musicians like tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, and drummer Cozy Cole this compilation has much to offer for many jazz listeners of varying tastes.

It is difficult to single out any particular songs on this album however ‘Enchanted Forest’ and ‘Naked City’ are favorites of mine, listening to them makes me reminiscent of the era when one would still be hearing this music on the radio for the first time.

There has been criticism regarding the sound quality of this recording, and I am in no way a qualified audiophile and do not possess the capacity to make such comparisons, but I actually appreciated hearing this album in a more raw, less filtered way, as though I was listening to it from my grandfather’s old Philco Radio.

Lastly, a major tip of the hat to Skip Heller for such meticulous and adept liner notes. Reading along while listening to ‘Hemi Demi Semi Quaver’ nearly feels the equivalent to taking a MasterClass on Raymond Scott. Also looking thru the amazing archival photos of Scott in action brings this embodiment of work together in one very thoughtful and well-rounded package.

I highly recommend it for all ages, and Raymond Scott fans at whatever level you might be, from soup to nuts, this is a must have for any music collection.

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David B. Greenberger

The ongoing pleasure of Raymond Scott!

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020

What a pleasure this is. I'm glad to be able to fill in missing chapters of Raymond Scott's ensembles. While this may not be a starting point for anyone coming to Scott for the first time, it is an important addition to his catalog and full of delights, some expected and some out of the blue.

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Julian Vein

Poor sound!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2020

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I was looking forward to this issue because I really enjoy the Scott big bands, more than I do the Quintette. Sadly, it is badly let down by the sound quality. There is a lot of manipulation, causing artefacts, compression. fluctuating volumes, and a most unsettling feeling to the music.

As explained in the notes, because of the Covid-19 situation the producers were unable to gain access to access to documentation, so the CD only contains titles and nothing else. The disc contains two Cozy Cole drum solos—why? I remember many years ago Philips in the UK brought out an EP called “The Big Big Bands”, and included the Scott Quintette’s “Toy Trumpet”! That’s what you call coming full circle! Surely the producers could have found a couple more band titles (not that it matters much)? They haven’t included playing times, which might have made it easier to trace the sources, which makes it pretty much useless as a research tool.

One or two performances sound familiar, but due to the poor sound, I can’t be sure. Because of the low production values I'm not prepared to comment on the musical quality. It’s ironic that Scott himself was a stickler for good sound quality.

I must add that the sleeve notes by Skip Heller are exemplary, although they make no specific reference to the compilation.

It really saddens me to give this product such a low rating.

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