The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records Volumes 1 and 2 - Mint Condition
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New and not played two volume set of The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records by Revenant Records. Purchased in April of 2016 and just now opened shipping boxes and cabinet/cases to take pictures. Both volumes are in pristine and unused condition. Volume one wood cabinet has one slight mar on the edge of the lid that was there upon opening of the styrofoam form and box.
Volume 1 - Limited Edition #1670 of 5000, 1917 - 1927
Volume 2 - Limited Edition #4898 of 5000, 1928 - 1932
If you enjoy Jazz or are just now getting into it this set is a beautiful representation of the early days of Jazz. A one-of-a kind collection that is just as beautiful to see as it is to listen to.
From Third Man Records website:
Volume One contains the following:
- 6 x 180-gram vinyl LPs pressed on burled chestnut colored vinyl with hand-engraved, blind-embossed gold-leaf labels housed in a laser-etched white birch LP folio
- 800 newly-remastered digital tracks, representing 172 artists and accessible via a first-of-its-kind music and image player app that allows user management of all tracks and ads, housed on a custom-designed USB drive
- 250-page large-format, clothbound hardcover art book
- 360-page encyclopedia-style softcover field guide containing artist portraits and full Paramount discography
- 200+ fully-restored original 1920s ads and images
- Handcrafted quarter-sawn oak cabinet with sage velvet upholstery and custom-forged metal hardware
How did a Wisconsin chair company, producing records on the cheap and run by men with little knowledge of their audience or the music business, build one of the greatest musical rosters ever assembled under one roof? The answer lies in The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932, an epic, two-volume omnibus of art, words, and music housed in limited-edition, hand-sculpted “Cabinets of Wonder,” jointly released by Jack White’s Third Man Records and John Fahey’s Revenant Records. Volume One covers the label’s improbable rise from 1917-1927.
Paramount Records was founded on a modest proposition: produce records as cheaply as possible, recording whatever talent was available. Over its lifetime, the label would become a “race records” powerhouse, its sound and fortunes directly linked to the Great Migration. By the time Paramount ceased operations in 1932, it had compiled a dizzying array of performers still unrivaled to this day, spanning early jazz titans (Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller), blues masters (Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Skip James), American divas (Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters), gospel (Norfolk Jubilee Quartette), vaudeville (Papa Charlie Jackson), and the indefinable “other” (Geeshie Wiley, Elvie Thomas). Paramount would also directly influence the style of Robert Crumb and countless other 20th century artists and illustrators through a series of hand-drawn ads promoting its releases in the pages of the Chicago Defender.
The 'Rise and Fall’ wonder-cabinet gives equal status to page-turning narrative and new scholarship, original and newly created graphic art, industrial design, and compelling analog and digital music experiences.
By 1928, after launching the recording careers of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson, King Oliver, Alberta Hunter, Ma Rainey and Blind Blake, Paramount was entitled to a breather. But just as it seemed the label might be losing steam, it began a second act that threatened to dwarf its first.
From 1928-32, the label embarked on a furious run for the ages, birthing the entire genre of Mississippi Delta blues recordings and issuing some of the most coveted 78s in the history of wax, by the likes of: Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Willie Brown, King Solomon Hill, Rube Lacy, Ishman Bracey, Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas, The Mississippi Sheiks, and hundreds of others.
Paramount simply killed. But more than that, it changed how America thought of itself. It was the first and most comprehensive chronicler of what America really sounded like - on its street corners, at its fish fries and country suppers, in its nightclubs and dance halls and showtents. In the process, it was profit-minded Paramount - not a preservationist body like the Library of Congress - that created the richest repository of this young nation's greatest art form.
Six LPs, 800 digital tracks on a custom USB drive, two definitive large-format books. All housed in a vintage velvet-upholstered, polished aluminum case evoking the era's high art deco stylings, the National metal-bodied guitar, and America's own Machine Age modernism.
* 800 newly-remastered digital tracks, representing 175 artists
* 90+ fully-restored original 1920s-30s Paramount ads from Chicago Defender
* 6 x 180g LPs pressed on label-less alabaster-white vinyl, each side with its own hand-etched numeral and hand-scratched holographic image
* 250 pg. large-format clothbound hardcover book featuring original Paramount art and the label's curious tale
* 400 pg. encyclopedia-style softcover field guide containing artist bios & portraits and full Paramount discography
* First-of-its-kind music and image player app containing all tracks and ads, housed on streamline moderne USB drive
* Polished aluminum and stainless steel cabinet, evoking 1930s high art deco stylings and America's Machine Age take on modernist design
Will ship sets in their original shipping boxes with styrofoam formed inserts, inside new shipping boxes for added protection to continental US only.
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