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My Prez discography ("Lestorian Notes" by Piet Koster and Harm Mobach, published in 1998, so I don't know if this one or the one by Jan Evensmo is more up to date) lists the session of 25 April 1952 like this: I then tried to narrow down the recordings to the line-up given by Feather, and according to the musician index Earl Knight only appeared once with Pres - on the session hereafter of 4 August 1951: But Earl Knight and Lee Abrams together at one and the same session apparently never happened - at least not on any known recordings. So ...? Like Niko said, the 25 April 1952 date is the most likely candidate, but the line-up announced by Feather then would be incorrect. If all this is what you already arrived at as well, Medjuck, then sorry - but I tried.

Norgran Records MG N -1029 (Japan 1992) - " Interpretations By Stan The Stan Getz Quintet # 3 " - rec. 1953

Mysterious! Looking at the discography (Evensmo), it seems that Destination Moon is the track that wasn't recorded often... and which points to 25 April 1952 where the other tracks were recorded as well. For this, the Evensmo-lineup is what you have but with Wynton Kelly, Aaron Bell and Jo Jones sitting in for Abrams on some tracks... Now it seems unlikely to me that this Jazz Club USA epsiode was forgotten in all the discographies... And even if the tracks came from different nights with different lineups, that wouldn't make Feather's announcement correct... So my tentative conclusion is 25 April 1952 and Feather was announcing a lineup he'd maybe received in advance.... Also possible that Feather is right about the lineup and discographies are wrong. The first step would be to compare the music from 25 April to the radio show...

Norgran Records MG N-1065 (Japan 1993) - An Evening Of Jazz (Various Groups) - rec 1949

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August 23 Bobby Watson - 1953

I posted this to a jazz research list serve and got no response. Maybe someone here knows. On a Jazz Club USA broadcast from (I believe) 1952 devoted to Arnett Cobb and Lester Young, Leonard Feather announces that Prez was recorded at Birdland and that his band consists of Jesse Drake, Earl Knight, Lee Abrams and Gene Ramey. However though all these players were in the band around the same period , neither of the 2 Prez discographies I own show them all in the band at the same time. The numbers played on the broadcast are standard for Prez at that time: "Neenah", "Ghost of a Chance", "Lester Leaps in" and "Destination Moon". Does anyone know when this performance took place and who the players were? (It is possible that the Jazz Club USA broadcast used numbers from more than one night, with different members of the band on separate nights.)

Right, this is a reissue of a Music Masters cd.

Got mine today. Very excited to see 2 photos and one track (Doktor Pitt) from April 12, 1981 at the Great American Music Hall in SF. I was there👍

Those guys have a good show. The problem for me is that they’re very vinyl-focused and I don’t buy vinyl any more.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only The Lonely (Capitol, 1958)

PM on The Ligeti Project (5 CDS)- EX/EX $12

Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - All Blues (MPS, 1969)

https://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz/2010/Duke_Ellington_NI2736.htm This new CD contains 15 such recordings made between 1965 and 1972. They are said to be "previously unissued" but they were actually first released in 1991 by the MusicMasters label. That's a very good record too.

Congratulate me boys! Davis Sanchez has responded to one of my posts!

Yes, "Hejira" has a fascinating aura about it, and the story-telling seems so true and vivid, in a way that the stories in "Blood on the Tracks" seem so real and experienced. I do not believe that the "stockpile" material in the Nimbus disc appears in any of the "Private Collection."

One more by Jimmy Heath: Picture of Heath (Xanadu, 1975)

Jaco's crowning achievement imo. I'm not really a big fan of his, but Joni taned that beast.

Disc 2: Hard Art My favorite Joni album as well! Something so spell-like about it, and filled with gorgeous songs and stories. Also strikes me as a haunting coda to the Rolling Thunder Revue in all its white-line glory. Re the Ellington, has the private collection material on that Nimbus been issued before, as part of the 10-CD series that came out on Atlantic (iirc) at one point?

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

After spinning a couple of his LPs, I'm now listening to this Jimmy Heath CD: The Time and the Place (Landmark, rel. 1994) with Curtis Fuller, Pat Martino, Stanley Cowell, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins & Mtume Recorded in 1974, this music sat on the shelf for twenty years (!) before getting released.

PM on -John Surman- Glancing Backwards- The Dawn Anthology- 3 CD (back of case cracked- hole punch in UPC) VG+/Ex $12