Ron Carter: First record session (Don Ellis)

[Mark Stryker]

According to Tom Lord's "The Jazz Discography," Ron Carter's first recording session with a Feb 1960 date with Don Ellis on the Enrica label. A footnote says the company went out of business before the LP was released and remains unheard/unissued in the Ellis archives at UCLA. Does anybody know if this is still the case?

 

Don Ellis (tp) Jaki Byard (p) Ron Carter (b) Charlie Persip (d)

New York, February, 1960

	Roland rock	Enrica LP2003
	Up stream	-
	Debi	-
	Homeless	-
	Someplace else	-
	You got me way out chere	-
	Ballade	-
	Theme and variations	-
	Back to back	-

Note:

This set was apparently projected to be released as Enrica LP 2003, but Enrica went out of business before the album could be released. The tapes sit in the UCLA Don Ellis Collection, unused and unheard.

[rostasi]

Don Ellis Collection: 7″ Audio Tape Reels

[JSngry]

Enrica leaves a trail...

https://www.discogs.com/label/69894-Enrica

https://www.discogs.com/Bennie-Green-Bennie-Green-Swings-The-Blues/master/511428

https://www.discogs.com/Bennie-Green-Bennie-Green-Swings-The-Blues/release/3603502

https://www.discogs.com/label/147752-Mount-Vernon-Music

https://www.discogs.com/label/517819-Mount-Vernon-Music-Inc

https://www.discogs.com/label/82439-Vernon-Records

Enruca itself might have folded, but the parent company lived on for a while. I'll bet the owners just didn't like what they heard and gave the tapes bacl or something.

Label owners Teddy McRae

https://www.discogs.com/label/82439-Vernon-Records

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_McRae

and Eddie Wilcox

https://www.discogs.com/artist/313122-Edwin-Wilcox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Wilcox

Black musicians recording black music - and owning at least some of the labels!