Well, I guess that I should have been a bit more precise in my comments. While some of this information may have been lost at Blue Note, it wouldn't seem to be a major issue. We have exact recording dates for almost all the classic Blue Note sessions, even if a lot of this information wasn't included on the back cover of original EP and LP releases. From about the 1970s until the end of the century, we not only had precise discographical information included on reissues of classic earlier records but established jazz labels would generally include all of this information on new releases as well.
Now, the situation has significantly changed in that regard and, as I wrote above, I worry that a lot of discographical information is not being saved for posterity at all.