Unfortunately it's not only it's not only the advance of technology 
that governs the making of recordings.  Radio stations used to make a 
lot of the live recordings.  The move away from broadcasting any 
music not interesting to the average 12 year old and copyright issues 
have severely limited this practice.  The last copyright law revision 
in particular, has caused almost as many problems for recording as 
for webcasting.

Bob Cham


><< a classical pianist once, when the man
>>  was in his 70's. Somehow we got on the subject of how he'd be remembered
>>  and he glumly noted that
>>  his recordings would stand far longer than the experience of seeing him in
>>  concert. Yet, he had
>>  spent thousands more hours performing in concert -- and he believed he had
>>  performed every single
>>  work he had done best in concert -- than in front of microphones making
>>  records. So you can see how
>>  this is the classic example of "sampling" first-person experiences and
>>  calling it history.   >>
>>
>Do we know definitively if some of these live performances were in some way
>recorded?   As electronic media advance, more and more recordings of
>events, communications and images will exist and many will hopefully get
>preserved.
>
>Best,
>
>Dave Radlauer
>www.JAZZHOTBigstep.com