Bird Lives - Continental Records

[Brad]

Anyone familiar with this record, https://www.discogs.com/release/5309567-Charlie-Parker-And-The-Jazz-All-Stars-With-Sarah-Vaughan-Bird-Lives

If you are, is it just a compilation from other sources. Also, any comments on sound quality. Thanks. 

[JSngry]

A compilation of Continental 78s. Originals were good enough SQ. The music itself is wonderful, singers doing that early post-WWII singer thing with  Bird/Diz/Etc, providing accompaniment.

I don't know that I would call this music "common", at least not in any "formal" way. It's the stuff of off-brand labels. But didn't Storyvill do a Continental disc or two? Or not?

[sonnymax]

Clyde Hart's All Stars

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Trummy Young, trombone, vocal; Charlie Parker, alto sax; Don Byas, tenor sax; Clyde Hart, piano; Mike Bryan, guitar; Al Hall, bass; Specs Powell, drums; Rubberlegs Williams, vocal. NYC, January 4, 1945.

What's The Matter Now; I Want Every Bit Of It; That's The Blues; G.I. Blues (as 4-F Blues); Dream Of You; Seventh Avenue; Sorta Kinda; Ooh Ooh, My My, Ooh Ooh

* Continental 6013   Clyde Hart - What's The Matter Now / That's The Blues
* Continental 6020   Clyde Hart - I Want Every Bit Of It / G.I. Blues
* Continental 6060   Clyde Hart - Dream Of You / Ooh Ooh, My My, Ooh Ooh
* Continental 6005   Clyde Hart - Seventh Avenue / Sorta Kinda

 

Sarah Vaughan With Dizzy Gillespie Septet

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Charlie Parker, alto sax; Flip Phillips, tenor sax; Nat Jaffe, piano #1,3; Tadd Dameron, piano #2; Bill DeArango, guitar; Curly Russell, bass; Max Roach, drums; Sarah Vaughan, vocal. NYC, May 25, 1945.

What More Can A Woman Do; I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A Dream; Mean To Me

* Continental 6008   Sarah Vaughan - What More Can A Woman Do / I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A Dream
* Continental 6024   Sarah Vaughan - Signing Off / Mean To Me

Edited May 12, 2022 by sonnymax

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

A compilation of Continental 78s. Originals were good enough SQ. The music itself is wonderful, singers doing that early post-WWII singer thing with  Bird/Diz/Etc, providing accompaniment.

I don't know that I would call this music "common", at least not in any "formal" way. It's the stuff of off-brand labels. But didn't Storyvill do a Continental disc or two? Or not?

These sides were on a 2 Lp Spotlite set called Every Little Bit of it that had other  (all?) Bird appearances from 1945. 

[JSngry]

Storyville has a Continental project on Bandcamp, at least.

https://storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-continental-sessions-vol-1

https://storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-continental-sessions-vol-2

https://storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/continental-sessions-vol-3

So it's out there. Three volumes.

 

[Brad]

Thanks for the replies.  Here’s one of the Storyville CDs, https://www.discogs.com/release/15247465-Various-The-Continental-Sessions-Volume-1

Volume 2, https://www.discogs.com/release/15389978-Various-The-Continental-Sessions-Volume-2-

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Brad

[JSngry]

Continental material had a way of turning up on Onyx collections, fwiw. But those are long gone. Those Storyville releases seem to be the most thorough collection to date.

[Brad]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Continental material had a way of turning up on Onyx collections, fwiw. But those are long gone. Those Storyville releases seem to be the most thorough collection to date.

Yes, that does seem the way.