This recording was transferred, digitally restored and kindly made available to me by Julian Dyer.
Jack Jackson started his career as a ‘hot’ trumpeter with Jack Hylton’s band, and founded his own band in 1933. He developed into a ‘personality’, initially as here a singer and in later years as a irreverent, jokey and highly influential radio disc jockey. His Dorchester Hotel band was characterised by a very precise and rhythmic style, one of the greats of the ‘golden age’.
| Composers | Clifford Grey (words) and Noel Gay (music) |
|---|---|
| Work | Jack o’Diamonds (from the 1935 London show of the same name) |
| Conductor | Jack Jackson |
| Vocalist | Jack Jackson |
| Date Recorded | 8th February 1935 |
| Recording Location | London |
| Date Restored | 30th October 2015 by Julian Dyer |
| Serial Number | HMV BD129 |
| Recording Cutter | Blumlein |
| Bandwidth | 60Hz to 6.5kHz |
| Transfer Stylus | 2.5mil truncated conical |
| Transfer Cartridge | Shure M75 |
| Transfer Turntable | Lenco L75 at 78RPM |
| Cutter Compensation | 375Hz first order lift |
| Click Reduction | ClickRepair, wavelet x3 mode, DeClick 40, pitch protection, reverse, stereo |
| Crackle Reduction | ClickRepair, DeCrackle, wavelet, 5 stereo passes |
| Low Frequency NR | DeNoise LF at 50 Hz |
| Wideband NR | DeNoise, auto, -12dB reduction |
| Limiting Filter | 48dB/octave Butterworth, at bandwidth limits |
This excellent transfer and restoration, originally listed on YouTube was completed by Julian Dyer using Brian Davies' restoration software. I have also applied a few of my own Butterworth bandwidth limiting filters to this work, along with some very mild peak limiting to bring the level up a bit.
With the permission of the original transfer engineer, I have made this work available for free download.
Vorbis is used for site downloads as it provides transparency at about a third of the file size compared to MP3. There isn't really much point for using FLAC as the final listening format (all processing is done losslessly, of course) as the quality of the recordings themselves is already rather limited given their age. The general consensus on HydrogenAudio is that Q5 is enough for transparency with modern recordings, so the downloads offered are encoded at a more than ample Q7. Vorbis is by far a superior codec to MP3, as transparency is obtained at almost half the file size.
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Julian Dyer and Michael Fearnley 2016