I don't think Johnny Hodges made it to digital; he died in 1970.

On the other end of the spectrum, Yehudi Menuhin made it to digital and 
CDs, but began recording after the end of the acoustic era although he 
began performing in 1923.

Michael Shoshani
Chicago

On 11/28/2012 04:31 PM, Aaron Levinson wrote:
> I believe Johnny Hodges may have as well but I cannot be absolutely positive about that. Acoustical era to digital that is. Perhaps Eubie Blake did too...
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> AA
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Jon Samuels <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> The most ever recordings would be very difficult to measure.  Is a one sided, 78 recording equivalent to an opera, i. e, are they both considered to be one recording?
>> By the way, another artist who spanned acoustical to digital was the pianist Shura Cherkassky.
>> Jon Samuels
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>> --- On Wed, 11/28/12, Gray, Mike <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> From: Gray, Mike <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] truth or myth -- RCA claims about first digital recording
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 4:59 PM
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>> Don and others -
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>> I think Rich is right on this - but let's 'go to the records' to make sure.
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>> Mike
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