Johnny Ringer Baby Aristocrats Champion 15308 Swamp Blues Territory Jazz 78 V+E-

$

157

ARTIST:  Johnny Ringer's Rosemont Orch (Wally Spencer) / Baby Aristocrats Band (Palmetto NC Orch)
LABEL:   Champion 15308
TITLES:  Swamp Blues / Darktown Shuffle
CONDITION:  V+E-, repaired tight edge hairline crack (~3/4")
DESCRIPTION: Two great hot territory jazz sides recorded late spring / early summer 1927. Johnny Ringer's Rosemont Ballroom band out of Brooklyn masquerades as Wally Spencer's Collegians for "Swamp Blues".  The Minneapolis territory band of Eddie Carlew's Baby Aristocrats goes under the name of The Palmetto Night Club Orchestra.   Light rubbing and scuffing with no serious groove wear.  Music loud and clear with very minor background noise mostly masked by volume of music.

For the foreseeable future, I will be listing great items from my own personal collection of 1920s classic jazz. 
78 GRADING:  We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted,  eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).  

E+

Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear.  N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.

E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black. 

E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.

V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.

V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.

V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.

P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.