This would've been interesting to hear!

[ghost of miles]

Nabbed more Heps from an Allegro sale and they came yesterday, including Johnny Bothwell's STREET OF DREAMS 1946. In the liner notes Alastair Robertson writes:

The Down Beat issue of Nov. 1, 1945 carried a fascinating story that Bothwell was to lead a string section jazz orchestra in Chicago with arrangements originally written by Lennie Tristano for a rehearsal band led by Emmett Carls.  Evidently, Carls had demo recordings made, and these must be considered as some of the most intriguing lost discs of mid-40's jazz.  The actual Bothwell project went nowhere and he returned to New York.