Billy Strayhorn - Out of the Shadow (Storyville)

[king ubu]

Making my way through this for the first time right now - and enjoying the sh*t out of it! However, I wonder about the contents ... several discs/sessions are licensed from other labels (the original material I assume is being treated as PD) but no infos about actual original releases are given, just labels.

I don't have time to piece it all together, but maybe someone has already done some closer investigation (or knows all the stuff included in the box inside out) and can help?

Below's a tracklist (partly found online only, amended by yours truly, hope it's correct) plus the discography listing from the Storyville site - I'm adding in italics the additional info from the booklet and some more I could quickly identify (just in case, I've not had time to really read Brian Priestley's liners, but from the parts I've read, there are no informations given on provenience of the recordings):

TRACKLISTING:

CD 1 - Billy Strayhorn: The Pianist & Composer
1 Passion Flower
2 Take the 'A' Train
3 Strange Feeling
4 Day Dream
5 Chelsea Bridge
6 Multi Colored Blue (Also Known As Violet Blue)
7 Something to Live For
8 A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
9 Tonk
10 Johnny Come Lately
11 In a Blue Summer Garden
12 Tonk (Pianistically Allied)
13 Drawing Room Blues
14 Tonk
15 Johnny Come Lately
16 Take the 'A' Train

CD 2 - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Play Billy Strayhorn Compositions
1 Something to Live For
2 Grievin‘
3 Johnny Come Lately
4 Take the „A“ Train
5 Mid-riff
6 My Little Brown Book
7 Day Dream
8 Bugle Breaks
9 Metronome All Out
10 I Don't Mind
11 After All
12 Kissin' Bug
13 Just A-sittin' and A-rockin'
14 Clementine
15 Paradise
16 Passion Flower
17 Satin Doll
18 Newport Up
19 What Else Can You Do With a Drum?
20 Blood Count

CD 3 - Various Groups Play Billy Strayhorn
1 Take the „A“ Train
2 Chelsea Bridge
3 Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
4 Lush Life
5 Isfahan
6 Just A-sittin' and A-rockin'
7 Satin Doll
8 Take the 'A' Train
9 Blood Count
10 Take the 'A' Train
11 Johnny Come Lately
12 Satin Doll
13 Chelsea Bridge
14 Take the 'A' Train

CD 4 - The Dutch Jazz Orchestra Plays Billy Strayhorn
1 Everything Is Copasetic
2 Hip
3 Blue House
4 Hipper-bug
5 Pretty Girl
6 Anatomy of a Murder
7 Swing Dance
8 Feet On the Beat
9 Matinee
10 Jo
11 Flame Indigo
12 Fol-de-rol-rol
13 Tiffany
14 Orson
15 Lozit
16 Pomegranate

CD 5 - Billy Strayhorn Played by Scandinavians
1 The Intimacy of the Blues
2 Paris Blues
3 The Star-Crossed Lovers
4 Chelsea Bridge
5 Portrait of a Silk Thread
6 Day Dream
7 Lotus Blossom
8 Blood Count
9 Upper Manhattan Medical Group
10 Chelsea Bridge/Star-Crossed Lovers/Day Dream
11 Passion Flower
12 Three and Six

CD 6 - Billy Strayhorn Played by Ken Peplowski, John Horler, Phil Lee, Alec Dankworth

1 No One Knows
2 Lotus Blossum
3 Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters
4 Rain Check
5 Snibor
6 Noir Bleu
7 The Star-Crossed Lovers
8 Something to Live For
9 After All
10 Multicolored Blue
11 Mid-riff
12 A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing

CD 7 - Billy Strayhorn Played by Harry Allen, Chris Flory, Keith Ingham, Dennis, Irwin, Chuck Riggs
1 Smada
2 Depk
3 Jazz Festival Jazz
4 Intimacy of the Blues
5 All Day Long
6 Balcony Serenade
7 Snibor
8 Strange Feeling
9 The Kissing Bug
10 Newport Up
11 My Little Brown Book
12 Mid-riff
13 I'm Checking Out, Goom Bye
14 Rain Check

DVD - Billy Strayhorn Played by Various Groups
1 Take the „A“ Train
2 Mid-riff
3 Chelsea Bridge
4 Passion Flower
5 Satin Doll
6 Medley: Lush Life/Solitude
7 Take the 'A' Train
8 Satin Doll
9 Take the a Train



DISCOGRAPHY

CD 1
Tracks 1-10
Billy Strayhorn (p) Michel Gaudry (b on 2,3,8,9 & 10) Paris String Quartet (strings on 4 & 10) Paris Blue Notes (vo on 1,6 & 8)
Recorded in Paris, May 1961
LP: "The Peaceful Side" (United Artists)

Tracks 11,12&13
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (p) Joe Schulman (b)
Recorded in New York, November 1950
3 (out of 4! why omit one?) sides from the Mercer session, New York, November 1950

Track 14
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (p)
Recorded in Marshfield, Massachusetts, August 25 ,1945
prev. on DETS 11

Tracks 15&16
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (p)
Recorded in New York, January 10, 1946
New York session for RCA Victor (Studio 1), January 10, 1946

CD 2
Track 1
Cootie Williams,Rex Stewart,Wallace Jones (tp) Joe Nanton,Lawrence Brown,Juan Tizol (tb) Barney Bigard (cl) Otto Hardwick,Johnny Hodges (as) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington (p) Fred Guy (g) Billy Taylor (b) Sonny Greer (dr)
Recorded at Ritz Carlton,Boston, July 26,1939
on Jazz Unlimited "The Duke in Boston" (I guess part of the Storyville "Duke Box", but I didn't check yet)

Track 2
Cootie Williams,Rex Stewart,Wallace Jones (tp) Joe Nanton,Lawrence Brown,Juan Tizol (tb) Barney Bigard (cl) Johnny Hodges,Otto Hardwick (as) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington (p) Fred Guy (g) Jimmy Blanton (b) Sonny Greer (dr)
Recorded at Southland Café, Boston, January 9, 1940
as #1

Track 3
Ray Nance,Rex Stewart,Harold Baker,Wallace Jones (tp) Lawrence Brown,Joe Nanton,Juan Tizol (tb) Johnny Hodges,Sax Mallard (as) Chauncey Haughton (cl) Ben Webster (ts) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington (p) Fred Guy (g) Alvin “Junior” Raglin (b) Sonny Greer (dr)
Recorded at the Hurricane April 4, 1943
on Storyville "Duke Ellington at the Hurricane" (again, I assume also on the "Duke Box")

Tracks 4,13,14,15&16
Shelton Hemphill,Al Killian,Francis Williams,Harold Baker,Ray Nance (tp) Lawrence Brown,Tyree Glenn,Quentin Jackson (tb) Jimmy Hamilton (ts & cl) Ben Webster (ts) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (p) Wendell Marshall (b) Sonny Greer (dr)
Recorded “live” at the Empire Room, Hollywood, Los Angeles, February 1949
on Storyville "Duke Ellington at the Hollywood Empire" (and I guess on the "Duke Box", too)

Tracks 5&6
Rex Stewart,Taft Jordan,Shelton Hemphill,Cat Anderson,Ray Nance (tp & v) Joe Nanton,Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones (tb) Jimmy Hamilton,Al Sears (ts) Johnny Hodges,Otto Hardwick (as) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (p) Fred Guy (g) Alvin “Junior” Raglin (b) Sonny Greer (dr) Al Hibbler (vo)
Recorded at 400 Restaurant, NYC, April 28, 1945
something wrong about the attribution of #6 to this date (which - including #5 - can be foundon DETS 1), but there are takes of "My Little Brown Book" on DETS 2, 5, 7 and 8 from other 1945 dates (all recorded at other locations)

Track 7
Same as track 5 & 6 but recorded at Apollo Teatre NYC, June 30, 1945
DETS 7

Track 8 & 9
Same as track 5 & 6 but recorded at RKO Teatre, Boston, July 14, 1945
DETS 8

Track 10 & 11
Same as track 5 & 6 but recorded Fieldston Ballroom, Marshfield,Massachusetts, August 25, 1945, Marie Ellington (vo)
DETS 11

Track 12
Same as track 5 & 6 but recorded at the New Zanzibar, NYC, September 26, 1945, Joya Sherrill (vo)
DETS 10

Track17,18&19
Ray Nance,Clark Terry,Cat Anderson,Harold Baker (tp) Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman,John Sanders (tb) Jimmy Hamilton (ts & cl) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Johnny Hodges, Russel Procope (as) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Sam Woodyard (dr) Ozzie Bailey (vo)
Recorded live at Kongressaal, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, November 14, 1958
from Storyville's "The Duke in Munich"

Track 20
Cootie Williams,Cat Anderson,Herbie Jones,Mercer Ellington (tp) Buster Cooper,Lawrence Brown,Chuck Conners (tb) Jimmy Hamilton,Paul Gonsalves (ts) Johnny Hodges,Russel Procope (as) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington (p) John Lamb (b)
Recorded at RCA Studios, New York, June 23, 1967
the official RCA recording, either they forgot to mention licensing info or they bootlegged it ...

CD 3
Track 1
Clark Terry (tp) Johnny O’Neal (p) Dewey Sampson (b) James Martin (dr)
Live at E.J.’s, Atlanta, Georgia, December 18, 1981

Track 2
Ben Webster (ts) Camille de Ceunynck (p) Tony Vaes (b) Charlie Pauvels (dr)
Live at Antwerp Jazz Club,Belgien, June 16, 1967

Track 3
Art Tatum (p)
Recorded in Los Angeles, c. 1948

Track 4
Duke Jordan (p)
Recorded in Copenhagen, October 6, 1993

Track 5
Johnny Griffin (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Jens Melgaard (b) Ole Streenberg (dr)
Recorded live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Tivoli, Copenhagen July 15, 1989

from "Catharsis!" (also included in the little Griffin box reissuing his Storyville recordings - and adding some DVD, I think?)

Track 6
Delta Rhythm Boys (vo), Recorded 1945

Track 7
Roy Eldridge (tp) Vic Dickenson (tb) Budd Johnson (ts) Tommy Flanagan (p) Major Holley (b) Eddie Locke (dr)
Recorded at St. Peter’s Church, New York City, May 20, 1978

Track 8
Delta Rhythm Boys (vo) Recorded 1941

Track 9
Horace Parlan (p)
Recorded in Copenhagen, January 14, 1999

Track 10
James Spaulding (as) Cedar Walton (p) Steve Nelson (vib) Sam Jones (b) Billy Higgins (dr)
Recorded in NYC, December 1, 1976

Track 11
Ben Webster (ts) Kenny Drew (p) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) Al Heath (dr)
Recorded at Pori Jazz Festival, Finland, July 14, 1967

Track 12
Mary Lou Williams (p) Milton Suggs (b) Drashear Khalid (dr)
Recorded at Rick’s Café Americain, Chicago, November 14, 1979

Track 13
Jesper Thilo (ts) Hank Jones (p) Dough Raney (g) Hugo Rasmussen (b) Svend-Erik Nørregaard (dr)
Recorded in Copenhagen, March 17, 1991

Track14
Teddy Wilson (p) Hugo Rasmussen (b) Ed Thigpen (dr)
Recorded live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen, May 21, 1979

I guess most of these tracks appeared on Storyville discs ... no time to check it all, just wanted to know for sure about the Griffin track - so no, it's not new ...


CD 4
Tracks 1-5
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Jerry van Rooijen (leader) Ack van Rooijen (tp & flgh) Jan Oosthof, Ruud Breuls,Peter van Soest,Erik Veldkamp,Mike Booth (tp) Martijn Sohier, Ilja Reijngoud,Hansjørg Fink (tb) Albert Beltman (as & cl) Hans Meijdam (as) John Ruocco (ts & cl) Toon Roos,Ab Schaap (ts) Nils van Haften (bs) Rob van Bavel (p) Frans van Hoeven (b on track 3 & 5) Jan Voogd (b on track 1,2,4, Erik Ineke (dr)
Recorded Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Holland, October 13-17,1997; October 28, 1999 and January 31, 2002
Tracks 6-16
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra Jerry van Rooijen (leader) Ack van Rooijen (tp & flgh) Jan Oosthof, Ruud Breuls,Peter van Soest,Erik Veldkamp,Mike Booth,Jan Hollander (tp) Martjin Sohier,Ilja Reijngoud,Hansjørg Fink,Ben van Dijk (tb) Albert Beltman (as & cl) Hans Meijdam (as) John Ruoccu (ts & cl) Toon Roos, Ab Schaap (ts) Nils van Haften (bs & cl) Rob van Bavel (p) Rob Madna (p on 10 &15) Frans van Hoeven (b on 2,6,8,9,12,13,14 &16) Jan Voogd (b on 10 & 15) Erik Ineke (dr)
Recorded Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Holland, October 13 – 17 1997 and October 28, 1999

licenced from Challenge Records B.V. (not sure if that relates just to the entry for 6-16 or to the entire disc - crappy layout as usual) ... I guess it's all taken from these So This Is Love, Portrait of a Silk Thread, Something to Live For and You Go to My Head.

CD 5
Tracks 1-7
Rolf Ericson (tp & flgh) Lennart Åberg (ts.ss &flute) Bobo Stenson (p) Gøran Klinghagen (el-g track 7) and Max Schultz (g track 7) Rose-Marie Åberg (vo track 6 ) Dan Berglund (b) Egil Johansen (dr) Recorded January 25 & 26, 1995 at Swedish Broadcasting Corporation

licensed from Naxos Denmark ApS - I guess taken from Ellington & Strayhorn by Ericson & Aberg (omitting the five non-Strays tracks)

Track 8
Hans Ulrik (bs) Kjeld Lauritsen (Hammond org.) Per Gade (g) Esben Bach (dr)
Recorded at Sun Studio, Copenhagen, Spring 2007

licensed from Kjeld Lauritsen

Tracks 9-11
Jesper Lundgaard (b) Bob Rockwell (ts & ss) Jacob Fisher (g) Keith Copeland (dr)
Recorded at Vestbirk Højskole, November 22, 1997 (track 10)
Jazzbar Bent J, November 26, 1997 (track 11)
Copenhagen Jazz House, November 29, 1997 (track 9)

licensed from Jesper Lundgaard

Track12
Erik Nordström (ts) Jan Zirk (p) Kjell Jansson (b) Magnus Gran (dr)
Recorded at Studio 12, The Swedish Radio, Gothenburg, June 20-21 1999

licensed from Dragon Records AB - taken from Kjell Jansson/Jan Zirk's Chelsea Bridge

CD 6
Track 1-4
Ken Peplowski (cl) John Horler (p track 3&4) Phil Lee (g track 1&2)
Track 5-12
Ken Peplowski (ts & cl) John Horler (p) PhilLee (g) Alec Dankworth (b)
Recorded in London,September 2006 & May 2007

licensed from Mainstem Productions (MCD0021 & MSTCD0047)

confused here - it's not quite Remembering Billy Strayhorn by Peplowski, seems to be another mix of two (as what I assume are catalogue numbers in the bracket suggest), four tracks are form somewhere else (and four from that disc omitted), it seems

CD 7
Harry Allen (ts) Chris Flory (g) Keith Ingham (p) Dennis Irwin (b) Chuck Riggs(dr)
Recorded at Kampo Studio, New York City, March 12-14, 1993

licensed from Jazzology Records - taken from Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of The Harry Allen/Keith Ingham Quintet, I assume

DVD
Track 1-4
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra Cootie Williams,Herb Jones,Cat Anderson,Mercer Ellington, Ray Nance (tp) Lawrence Brown,Buster Cooper,Chuck Conners (tb) Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Hamilton (ts),Johnny Hodges,Russell Procope, (as) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington,Billy Strayhorn *(p) John Lamb (b) Sam Woodyard (dr)
Recorded at Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, January 31, 1965

Track 5
Clark Terry (tp) Duke Jordan (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Svend-Erik Nørregaard (dr)
Recorded live at Montmartre April 7, 1985

Track 6
Duke Jordan (p) Jesper Lundgaard (b) Aage Tanggaard (dr)
Recorded live at Montmartre April 7, 1985

Track 7
The Delta Rhythm Boys: Carl Jones,Traverse Crawford, Kelsey Pharr,Lee Gaines (vo) unknown orchestra.
Recorded 1951

Track 8 & 9
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra: Ray Nance,Shorty Baker,Cat Anderson,Bill Berry,Ed Mullens (tp) Lawrence Brown,Leon Cox,Chuck Connors (tb) Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges (as)Paul Gonsalves (ts) Jimmy Hamilton (ts & cl) Harry Carney (bs) Duke Ellington (p) Aaron Bell (b) Sam Woodyard (dr)
Recorded in New York,January 9,1962

source for the discography:
http://www.storyvillerecords.com/products/billy-strayhorn-out-of-the-shadows-1088614