New Year's Day Recordings

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

Want to know what New Year's Day sounded like over the years? The following are studio recordings made on January 1 [Photo above of boys blowing horns on New York's Bleecker St. on New Year's Day in 1943]:

Here's the Varsity Eight's TNT recorded on Jan. 1, 1926...

Here are the Blue Mountaineers with Fit as a Fiddle and Taboo Taboo, both recorded in London on Jan. 1, 1933....

Here's Lizzie Miles recording Careless Love on Jan. 1, 1952...

Here's Teddy Wilson with Milt Hinton (b) and Jo Jones (b) recording If I Had You on Jan. 1, 1955...

Here's Chet Baker recording Chetty's Lullaby in Rome on Jan. 1, 1962 with Ennio Morricone conducting...

And here's James Brown recording Ain't That a Groove on Jan. 1, 1966...

Used with permission by Marc Myers