"Jazz Band"

[ghost of miles]

I've been reading BECOMING SOMETHING, a biography of the athlete/activist/actor Canada Lee, and came across this passage on pg. 258:

Canada also got a little recording gig narrating "Jazz Band," produced by Young Peoples Records to introduce kids to jazz.  The band featured Buck Clayton on trumpet, Edmund Hall on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Sid Weiss on bass, Jimmy Crawford on drums, and Kenneth Spencer on vocals.  "In music and text, you follow the story of jazz from its birth among African slaves to its fusion with New Orleans cafe music and its travels up the Mississippi, and eventually throughout the country," noted Saul Pett, reviewing the album for the Associated Press.

This was 1948, so I'm assuming the "album" was a folio of 78s. Has this material ever been re-issued, on either LP or CD?

[EKE BBB]

Lord has two (apparently) redundant and contradictory entries:

1947/11/19

[J2080-4] Jazz Band

Buck Clayton (tp) Edmond Hall (cl) Teddy Wilson (p) Sid Weiss (b) Jimmy Crawford (d) Canada Lee (narration) Kenneth Spencer (vcl-1)

New York, November 19, 1947

YPR410A Jazz band (ks vcl, cl narr only) (1) Young Peoples Records 410

YPR410B Jazz band (cl narr) Young Peoples Records 410

1947/11/19

[L2212-4] Canada Lee

Canada Lee (vcl,narration) Kenneth Spencer (vcl) acc by Jimmy Crawford (d)

New York, November 19, 1947

410A Jazz band (pt 1) Young People's Record YPR410

410B Jazz band (pt 2) -

[Stereojack]

I've been reading BECOMING SOMETHING, a biography of the athlete/activist/actor Canada Lee, and came across this passage on pg. 258:

Canada also got a little recording gig narrating "Jazz Band," produced by Young Peoples Records to introduce kids to jazz.  The band featured Buck Clayton on trumpet, Edmund Hall on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Sid Weiss on bass, Jimmy Crawford on drums, and Kenneth Spencer on vocals.  "In music and text, you follow the story of jazz from its birth among African slaves to its fusion with New Orleans cafe music and its travels up the Mississippi, and eventually throughout the country," noted Saul Pett, reviewing the album for the Associated Press.

This was 1948, so I'm assuming the "album" was a folio of 78s. Has this material ever been re-issued, on either LP or CD?

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I have the record. It is a single 78rpm record with a printed sleeve. The term "album" is inaccurate. Not aware of any reissue.

[ghost of miles]

I've been reading BECOMING SOMETHING, a biography of the athlete/activist/actor Canada Lee, and came across this passage on pg. 258:

Canada also got a little recording gig narrating "Jazz Band," produced by Young Peoples Records to introduce kids to jazz.  The band featured Buck Clayton on trumpet, Edmund Hall on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Sid Weiss on bass, Jimmy Crawford on drums, and Kenneth Spencer on vocals.  "In music and text, you follow the story of jazz from its birth among African slaves to its fusion with New Orleans cafe music and its travels up the Mississippi, and eventually throughout the country," noted Saul Pett, reviewing the album for the Associated Press.

This was 1948, so I'm assuming the "album" was a folio of 78s. Has this material ever been re-issued, on either LP or CD?

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I have the record. It is a single 78rpm record with a printed sleeve. The term "album" is inaccurate. Not aware of any reissue.

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Thanks for the info, SJ.

[Brownian Motion]

This has been reissued on Classics under Buck's name, 1945-1947.

[ghost of miles]

This has been reissued on Classics under Buck's name, 1945-1947.

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Excellent! I'll have to track that down--thinking about doing a radio program on Lee.