Henri Renaud with Duke Jordan and George Wallington

[Big Beat Steve]

Reading an interview with Henri Renaud in the November, 1959, issue of Jazz Hot, I came across the following recollection by Renaud when he discussed the 5 LPs worth of material he recorded in the U.S. during his stay there in 1954:

"I also participated in a recording for Prestige that featured three pianists - Duke Jordan, George Wallington and me. It was never published for union reasons: The musicians' union confiscated the tapes."

Has this session ever been issued since?

I cannot find any mention of Henri Renaud in the musicians' index (and no trace of a collaboration of Jordan with Wallington) in "The Prestige Book" published by "Jazz Critique" (No. 3) in the 1990s in Japan.

An entry in the Jazz Profiles blog (August 14, 2017) mentions this session but this is a reprint from a 1957 feature in Jazz Monthly (UK) so is not any more up to date on on what may have happened with it later on.

So .... does anybody have any specific info on this?

Edited May 6, 2018 by Big Beat Steve

[brownie]

I remember that Henri Renaud interview. The three-piano session remains unissued. Unfortunately.