V-Disc Big Band Set Is Coming!!!

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, romualdo said:

Wonder if these are the same tracks I listened to at the Harlem Jazz Museum back in 2006 - I particularly searched for Lester & Charlie material on their computer (and most of it was with the Benny Goodman band/small groups)

Those are the ones.  IIRC there are no new songs with Christian but several unreleased performances. The jam session with Prez  that was done for a radio show is terrific.

[Lino22]

6 hours ago, medjuck said:

Those are the ones.  IIRC there are no new songs with Christian but several unreleased performances. The jam session with Prez  that was done for a radio show is terrific.

The jam session with Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Ben Heller, Sid Weiss, and Jo Jones is from the November 16, 1938 Martin Block’s Make Believe Ballroom broadcast. To me this is the Holy Grail of the Savory Collection. The tunes included, “Tea for Two,” “After You’ve Gone,” and “I Know that You Know.” The last one has been available in rather poor sound. In the attached program you can hear, at the beginning, part of Young’s “After You’ve Gone” solo and then within the program all of “Tea for Two” and “I Know that You Know” are included and in great sound. Hope spring eternal that one day these will see a wider release.