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Any relation with this IAJRC release?:

Oscar Pettiford: First Bass

Rare Recordings and Concert Dates, 1953-1960

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From IAJRC website:

Product Details:

Audio CD: Released 1995

Material Recording Dates: 1953 - 1960

Material Recording Locations: Los Angeles, NYC, Hamburg, Manchester, Stockholm

Source Material: tape, LP

Label: IAJRC

Catalog Number: CD-1010

Total Playing Time: 73:45

Track listing: 

1. Words (Too Marvelous for Words)

2. Monti Cello

3. In a Cello Mood

4. Blues in the Closet

5. Over the Rainbow 

6. Take the "A" Train 

7. Willow Weep for Me 

8. Yardbird Suite 

9. Bohemia After Dark 

10. The Laverne Walk 

11. Stardust 

12. All the Things You Are 

13. Interview/The Nearness of You 

14. Why Not, That's What 

Collective personnel: Lee Konitz, Zoot Sims, Lucky Thompson, Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Cleveland, Phineas Newborn, Harry Babasin, Kenny Clarke and others.

Coover Gazdar's Oscar Pettiford discography, also titled First Bass, and the CD are offered at a combined price of US$16.95 (postpaid in USA and Canada. Add US $4.00 for surface; US $6.00 for air shipment to other countries. Offer is valid only as long as the current stock of discographies lasts. CD alone is available at the standard member price. Discography alone has been selling at US $16.95.

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I have that one - some of the material is extremely rare, especially the 4 tracks from the Imperial EP with Harry Babasin (I used one of them in my BFT). Sound quality is okay for vintage material.

Can anybody with a registration at dimeadozen post a tracklist? The do nor accept any new signups at the time ... :(

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JAM SESSIONS AT CHRISTY'S

'50 winter - '51 spring. Christy's Restaurant. Framingham, MA. Jam Session

Howard McGhee, unk - trumpet

Bob Wilber - clarinet

Gigi Gryce - alto sax, piano

Joe Roland - vibes

Oscar Pettiford - bass, cello

Tommy Potter - bass

Duke Jordan, Nat Pierce - piano

drummer unidentified

Eddie Curran - mc

1. Rockin' in Rhythm

2. Imagination

3. Perdido

4. Swingi' 'til the Girls Come Home

5. Anthropology

6. I'll Remember April

7. Indiana

8. Stardust

9. Perdido

10. Lady Be Good

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This is more exciting - REALLY un-issued !

One of the torrents currently downloadable is:

50 winter - 51 spring. Christy's Restaurant. Framingham, MA. Jam Session. Collective personnel: Howard McGhee, unknown tp, Bob Wilber cl, Gigi Gryce as, p, Joe Roland vib, Duke Jordan, Nat Pierce p, Oscar Pettiford cello, b, Tommy Potter b, unknown d, Eddie Curran mc.

Blues (theme uses phrases from Rockin' In Rhythm & Jumpin' With Symphony Sid)

Imagination

Perdido

Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home

Anthropology

I'll Remember April

Indiana

Star Dust

Perdido

Lady Be Good

Jam Sessions at Christy's, Vol. 2. Zim Records ZM-1010 (unreleased). - Art Zimmerman is in possession of the tapes. Pete Bainbridge writes: "It is interesting that the Christy's Jam session was ready for production on Zim records in the mid-1980s. With the advent of cds, Artie Zimmerman concluded that its release was not economically feasible, and so he shelved the project." - Cf. Noal Cohen & Michael Fitzgerald: Rat Race Blues. The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce, p. 376.

Another torrent collated by Pete as "Ellingtonia" includes these:

570423 NYC. NBC TV broadcast. Duke Ellington Group. Duke Ellington p, Johnny Hodges as, Harry Carney bs, Oscar Pettiford b, Max Roach d.

Take The "A" Train (unissued)

Things Ain't What They Used To Be (unissued)

Perdido (unissued)

Duke Ellington Interview with Ben Gross (unissued)

The show was called "Tonight! America After Dark".

plus

580704 Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island, set 1. Rex Stewart and the Ellington Alumni All-Stars. Willis Conover as emcee. Rex Stewart co, Cootie Williams tp, Hilton Jefferson as, Tyree Glenn tb, Ben Webster ts, Billy Strayhorn p, Oscar Pettiford b, Sonny Greer d.

Speech by Senator Theodore Green

East St. Louis Toodle-oo

Rockin' In Rhythm

Concerto For Cootie

C Jam Blues

Boy Meets Horn

Chelsea Bridge

Le Grande Romp

Unpublished. Tape in: Voice of America Music Library Collection (Library of Congress).

See details here http://themenschmidt.de/don.htm

I am currently listening to these - and I am amazed !

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I've had the good fortune to know very generous friends who have provided me with a lot of this kind of material. With their blessing, I have decided to try to pass some of that material along to other enthusiasts by way of DaD.

I'm glad you are enjoying the material. Like most people, I have restrictions in my time and in my computing resources, but as time permits I will continue to post more such items to DaD.

I'm find it interesting that you identify it as Oscar Pettiford material. This is indeed the primary reason that I have collected it - as some of you know, I am attempting to be a completist of OP material.

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