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Thread #68933   Message #1164708
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
18-Apr-04 - 07:30 PM
Thread Name: Sharp and tunes
Subject: RE: Sharp and tunes
The Stephen Baldwin LP is another "bulmerised" one, unfortunately (Leader LED 2068 1976) and unlikely to re-appear. When recorded in 1954 he was elderly and rather out of practice, and sounds quite rough to begin with (not helped by his having to play in a small room at the local primary school, crammed in with 15 other people; he didn't have electricity for the recording gear at home); though with a bit of listening you can tell that he must have been a strong and very capable player in his prime. Peter Kennedy's 1952 recordings of him can still be got:

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