The Fabulous Forties Volume 2 1944/47

Media Condition:  Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    Denmark  
Released:  1977
Genre:       Jazz
Style:         Swing, Big Band

Comments:
EXCELLENT RECORD
 

Notes:

Tracks A1 to A6: May  10, 1947, WNEW New York City.
Tracks A7 to A9 and B1, B2: July 1947, Ciro's Restaurant, Hollywood, California.
Tracks B4 to B6: December 19, 1944 Carnegie Hall, New York City.

This unofficial release copies the mistake on other similar LPs by listing Eddie Barefield on trumpet, he played alto saxophone and clarinet in Duke Ellington's band. 

Johnny Hodges is listed as playing soprano saxophone on the 1947 selections, but everything I have read says he gave up the instrument after 1940. I am listing it anyway until I get a chance to hear this LP again. Hodges is omitted from the credits to the 1944 Carnegie Hall concert, though he is listed on the Prestige 2 LP set of that same concert. None of the selections on this Rarities LP appear on the Prestige LP. Since his sound is so distinctive, it is unlikely that he is not present on these tracks.

Personnel listed for tracks A1 to A6 differ significantly from published discographies.  There is consensus that only Ellington, Taft Jordan, Ray Nance, Lawrence Brown, Johnny Hodges, Al Sears, Harry Carney, Oscar Pettiford and Sonny Greer appeared on "Saturday Night Swing Session" in a "Twentieth Anniversary Salute to Duke Ellington", which is the WNEW broadcast from which these tracks derive.  Absent from this date were Shelton Hemphill, Francis Williams, Harold Baker, Eddie Barefield, Claude Jones, Wilbur de Paris, Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope and Fred Guy.  Moreover, on "Moon Mist" (track A6), the piano player is [a258464 and he's accompanied only by Ray Nance on this selection.

Personnel listed for tracks A7 to B2 also differ from published sources.  Notably, [a749721 (trumpet) and [a325855 (trombone) were present, whereas Eddie Barefield is not listed in these discographies.

Personnel listed for the Carnegie Hall date (tracks B3 to B6) align with those in published discographies.

 

A1. C Jam Blues
A2. Sophisticated Lady
A3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
A4. It Don't Mean A Thing
A5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
A6. Moon Mist
A7. Thme & Intro
A8. Happy Go Lucky Local
A9. The Beautiful Indians - Minehaha
B1. The Beautiful Indians - Hiawatha
B2. Warm Valley
B3. Frustration
B4. Air Conditioned Jungle
B5. Frantic Fantasy
B6. Medley
B6a. In A Sentimental Mood
B6b. Mood Indigo
B6c. Sophisticated Lady
B6d. Caravan
B6e. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

 

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