Many
a jazz recording was also made at the Cafe Society in New York.
The Continental catalogue contained recordings made from 1944 on and
names like those of trumpet players Louis Armstrong and Harry James;
violinist Enoch Light; humming bass player Leroy "Slam"
Stewart; famous singer Ethel Waters; drummer William "Cozy"
Cole; young Sarah Vaughan; pianists Dorothy Donegan, Clarence Williams,
Clyde Hart, Johnny Guarnieri, Hank Jones.
And there was pianist(!) Leonard Feather. Feather, who came from Great
Britain, started out as a reviewer and as a jazz musician before he
gave the world his "Encyclopedia of Jazz" - and did not
write an entry on himself in the book but only on the jacket of this
fantastic compendium.
Maybe the list
of the Continental records is not at all complete. But the following
reference numbers were compiled from catalogs and publications.
#CR-1001: Louis
Armstrong - The Night before Christmas + When the Saints go Marching
in.
#C 1175: Enoch
Light and his Orchestra; Loren Becker - Laughing on the Outside +
Got a Date with a Disc
#C 10000: Slam
Stewart Quintet - Mood to be Stewed + Slammin' the Gate
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In
the category "sepia swing" the Slam Stewart
Quintet - Slam Stewart (singing bass), Red Norvo (vibraharp),
Johnny Guarnieri (piano), Morey Feld (drums), and Chuck Wayne
(guitar):
TALKING BACK (Red Norvo) and THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY(Leonard Feather)
- Continental C-10005. The label is of a Dutch Continental
release, Made in Holland.
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#C 10001: Slam
Stewart Quintet - The Voice of the Turtle + Time on My Hands
#C 10002: Slam
Stewart Quintet - A Bell for Norvo + On the Upside Looking Down
#C 10003: Slam
Stewart Quintet - Jingle Bells + Honeysuckle Rose
#C 10004: Slam
Stewart Quintet - Haw haw + Dozin'
#C 10005: Slam
Stewart Quintet - Talkin' back + The One that Got Away
#C 10006: Ethel
Waters; J.C. Heard Orchestra - Taking a Chance on Love + Cabin in
the Sky
#C 10007: Ethel
Waters; J.C. Heard Orchestra - Dinah + Man Wanted
#C 10008: Ethel
Waters; J.C. Heard Orchestra - Am I Blue? + You took My Man
#S 3284: Cozy
Cole's All Stars - Memories of You + Comes the Don
#C 3009: Harry
James and his Orchestra - Swanee River + El Rancho Grande
#6000: Cozy Cole's
All Stars - Look Here + I don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
#6001: Cozy Cole's
All Stars - Take it on Back + Willow Weep for Me.
#C 6002: Hot Lips
Page and his Orchestra with Lucky Thompson (sax), Hot Lips Page (trumpet),
Vick Dickenson (trombone), Hank Jones (piano), Sam Allen (guitar),
Jessie Price (drums), Carl "Flat top" Wilson (bass): - Gee
Baby, ain't I Good to You + The Lady in Bed
#6003: Hot Lips
Page and his Orchestra - Big "D" blues + It ain't Like That
#C 6004: Cozy
Cole's All Stars - Comes the Don + Memories of You
#C 6007A: Leonard
Feather, Dan Burley; with Tiny Grimes (guitar), Morey Feld (drums):
Part 1 - A Suite in Four Comfortable Quarters (bedroom, living room,
kitchen, bath) - Part 2: Kitchen Connipt + A suite in Four Comfortable
Quarters ... - Pt. 4: Bathroom Boogie
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Leonard
Feather
(Picture taken from the jacket of The Encyclopedia
of Jazz - Bonanza Books, New York, 1955/1960)
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#C 6008: Sara
Vaughan - What More Can a Woman do + I'd Rather Have a Memory than
a Dream
#6009: Leonard
Feather and his All Stars - Esquire Jump and Esquire Stomp.
#C 6013: Clyde
Hart's All Stars - What's the Matter Now + That's the Blues
#C 6014: Cozy
Cole's All Stars - When Day is Done + The Beat
#6015: Hot Lips
Page and his orchestra - The Lady in Bed + Sunset Blues
#C 6016: Leonard
Feather and his All Stars - Scram + Thanks For the Memory
#C 6017: Hot Lips
Page and his orchestra - They raided the joint + Florida Blues
#C 6018: Edmond
Hall and his Cafe Society Orchestra - Continental Blues + Face
#C 6021: Mary
Osborne; with Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars - (She's) He's Funny That
Way.
#C 6022: J.C.
Heard & His Cafe Society Orchestra - The Walk + Heard But Not
Seen D.D.T.
#C 6024: Sarah
Vaughan; with Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra - Mean to Me + Signing
Off
#C 6025B: Hot
Lips Page and his Orchestra - Corsicana + Race Horse Mama Blues
# C 6027B: J.C.
Heard and his Cafe Society Orchestra (J.C.Heard, drums, Budd Johnson)
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Remington
REP-35: Interlude, East of the Sun, Signing Off, No Smokes Blues.
Titles recorded December 31, 1944, New York. Sarah Vaughan (vocals),
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, and in East of the Sun and No Smokes
on piano), Aron Sachs (clarinet), Georgie Auld (tenor sax),
Leonard Feather (piano in Interlude and Signing Off), Chuck
Wayne (guitar), Jack Lesberg (bas), Morey Feld-drums.
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#C 6031B: Sarah
Vaughan; Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra - Interlude (= A Night
In Tunisia; 31st December, 1944 ) + East of the sun (George Treadwell,
sax) - Azure + Bouncing for Barney + Continental Blues
#C 6033B: Dorothy
Donegan (piano), Oliver Coleman (drums), Rail Wilson (bass) - Yesterday
+ Dorothy's Boogie Woogie
#6034: Dorothy
Donegan (piano), Oliver Coleman (drums), Rail Wilson (bass) - Limehouse
Blues, Tiger Rag
#6051: Dorothy
Donegan (piano) - Little Girl from St. Louis (boogie woogie); Jumping
Jack
#6056: Dorothy
Donegan (piano) - Some of These Days; Kilroy Was Here
#6057: Dorothy
Donegan (piano) - How High the Moon ; Schubert's Boogie Woogie
#6058: Dorothy
Donegan (piano) - Two Loves Wuz One Too Many for me + The Man I Love
#6061: Sarah Vaughan
- No Smokes-blues + Willie Mae Willow Foot Special (boogie woogie)
#8479: Clarence
Williams ( piano) and Pinewood Tom (guitar) - Black Gal + Milk Cow
Blues
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Remington
issue 1024 still with the Continental prefix CLP
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1025
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These recordings
were transferred to Lp and issued on the Continental label and later
cleverly reissued on Remington long playing records in all sorts of
combinations. Originally seven ten inch Remington LPs were released:
R-1024
Hot Jazz With Sarah Vaughan
With Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Charlie Parker (alto sax), Flip Phillips
(tenor sax), Bill de Arango (guitar), Max Roach (drums), (released
in the fall of 1950, that was the time when Sarah Vaughan still was
listed in the section "popular music").
R-1025
Ethel Waters in Shades of Blue
Taking A Chance On Love, Honey In A Hurry, You Took My Man, Cabin
In The Sky, I Shoulda Quit, Man Wanted, Am I Blue, Dinah
(released in the fall of 1950; dubbings of C 10006, 10007, 10008 plus
2 other songs).
R-1031 The Birth of Bebop and Blues.
On SIDE 1:
Heard But Not Seen, The Beat Bouncy, What's The Matter Now
(performed by Roy Eldridge (tr), Slam Stewart (b), Cozy Cole (dr),
Red Norvo (vibes), Clyde Hart (p), J.C. Heard (dr), Clyde Hart and
Timme Rosenkrantz Orchestras)
On SIDE 2:
That's The Blues, I Want Every Bit Of It, 4 F Blues - performed by
Dizzy Gillespie (tr), Charlie Parker (alto), Don Byas (tenor), Trummy
Young (tr), Clyde Hart (pi), Mike Bryan (guitar), Al Hall (cl), Specs
Powell (dr), "Rubberlegs" Williams Orchestra.
R-1032
Cafe Society Swing.
Timme Rosenkrantz, Cozy Cole, and Sabby Lewis orchestras: Bouncing
For Barney, Timme Time, DDT, Cafe Society Blues, Look Here, Comes
The Don, Are You Coming Home John, Boston Bounce.
R-1033
Modern American Musicians
Red Norvo, Johnny Guarnieri, Morey Feld, Chuck Wayne, Eddie South
Trio.
R-1035
Moods in Blues
With Edmond Hall, Timme Rosenkrantz, "Hot Lips" Page
Orchestra: Continental Blues, Blues At Dawn, Big Trees Blues, Florida
Blues, Big D Blues, It Ain't Like That, Race Horse Mama Blues.
R-1037
Sax Appeal
With Morris Lane and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis.
Eventually several
titles were issued simultaneously on the Remington and on the Plymouth
label.
Side One of Remington RJ 500 features Sarah Vaughan singing
at her first, own record session on December 31st, 1944, produced
by Leonard Feather.
REMINGTON RJ-500
On SIDE 1:
What More Can A Woman Do (P. Lee - D. Barbour), I'd Rather Have A
Memory Than A Dream (L. Feather - J. Russel), Mean To Me (R.Turk -
F. Ahlert), Signing Off (L. Feather - J. Russel), East Of The Sun
(B. Bowman)
Interlude (D. Gillespie - Paparelli - Leveen)
On SIDE
2:
Bouncy (Rosenkrantz - Jones - Cavanaugh), What's The Matter Now (Clyde
Hart), Continental Blues (E. Hall), Heard But Not Seen (B. Johnson
- J.C. Heard), Bouncing For Barney (G. Treadwell - J.C. Heard)
Bouncy and Blues At Dawn also appear on Side 2 of Plymouth P-12-155.
REMINGTON
RJ-504
On SIDE 1: Ethel Waters with the J.C. Heard Orchestra:
Taking a Chance on Love, Cabin in the Sky, Dinah, Man Wanted, A I
Blue?, You Took My Man.
On SIDE 2: Selections performed by various artists:
Boston Bounce (Society Swing Orchestra)
Edna (Sabby Lewis Orchestra), Jumping Jack (Dorothy Donegan), Special
(Dorothy Donegan), Little Girl from Saint Louis (Dorothy Donegan),
Schubert's Boogie Woogie (Dorothy Donegan), The beat (Cozy Cole).
And there
were several Plymouth releases following the same strategy so you
never were sure if you did already own a certain performance. It just
could have been another take or the same one. Some where also released
on Pontiac, not listed in the Schwann and Long Player catalogs.
PLYMOUTH
P-12-122
On SIDE 1:
Am I Blue (Ethel Waters), It Ain't Like That (Hotlips Page), They
Raided The Joint (Hot Lips Page), Heard But Not Seen (J.C. Heard),
Edna (Sabby Lewis)
Jumping Jack Special (Dorothy Donogan)
On SIDE
2:
Bell For Norvo (Red Norvo), Willie Mae Willow Foot (Hot Lips Page),
House Rocking (Frank Culley), Talking Back (Red Norvo), Schubert's
Boogie (Dorothy Donogan), Ready For Action (Frank Culley), Lockjaw's
Bounce (Eddie Davis)
PLYMOUTH
P-12-155
On
SIDE 1:
This release lists on SIDE 1:
Look Here (Cole - Thomas - Hart), Take It Back ( Cole - Thomas - Hart),
Comes The Don (Thomas - Cole - Byas), Bouncy (Rosenkrantz - Jones
- Cavanaugh), Blues At Dawn (Rosenkrantz - Jones - Cavanaugh), The
Drag (Thomas - Cole - Byas)
On SIDE
2:
Saul (H. Sandy), Squint Look (H. Sandy), Diggin' Chick (H. Sandy),
Stick Around (H. Sandy), Fand And Sand (H. Sandy), Black Rose Blues
(Carels - Fennis)
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Masterseal
MSLP 5013: Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Red Norvo, Cozy Cole,
Charlie Ventura, Dorothy Donegan, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas.
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Masterseal
MSLP 55: Sarah Vaughan with some of the selections from Masterseal
MS-5013 and Remington RJ-500.
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MASTERSEAL
MSLP 5013
On SIDE 1:
Mean To Me (R.Turk - F. Ahlert), Bouncy (Rosenkrantz - Jones - Cavanaugh),
Blues At Dawn (Rosenkrantz - Jones - Cavanaugh), What (Don Byas),
Every Bit (Dizzy Gillespie), Rose Noir (H. Carels)
On SIDE
2:
Comes The Don (Thomas - Cole - Byas), Beat Bounce (Red Norvo), Cravin'
(Hen Gates), Kilroy Was Here (Dorothy Donegan), Edna (Sabby Lewis),
Swinging the Blue (Eddie South).
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Gabor
issued the same titles on different labels and in different
combinations. These were not necessarily different takes. Adding
some reverberation to the signal could give the listener the
idea that a different recording was used. The same material
from MSLP 5013 was issued on the Paris label.
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MUSIC
APPRECIATION LIBRARY VOLUME 10 (Paris Label - The World of Living
Music - Notes by Joseph P. Muranyi)
On SIDE 1:
Mean To Me (R.Turk - F. Ahlert), Bouncy (Rosenkrantz - Jones - Cavanaugh),
Blues At Dawn (Rosenkrantz - Jones - Cavanaugh), What's The Matter
Now (Don Byas), I Want Every Bit (Dizzy Gillespie), Rose Noir (H.
Carels).
On SIDE 2:
Comes The Don (Thomas - Cole - Byas), Beat Bounce (Red Norvo), Cravin'
(Hen Gates), Kilroy Was Here (Dorothy Donegan), Edna (Sabby Lewis),
Swinging the Blue (Eddie South).
MASTERSEAL
MS-55
"Sarah Vaughan Sings Sweet and Sultry", a later Masterseal
release.
On SIDE 1
Mean To Me - Sarah Vaughan with Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Dizzy
Gillespie, Bill De Aranzo, Max Roach, Curley Russell, Nat Jaffe.
Bouncy - Red Norvo, Timme Rosenkrantz, Charlie Ventura, Harry Carney,
Johnny Bothwell, Otto Hardwick, Jimmy Jones, Specs Powell and John
Levy.
Blues At Dawn - (the same group).
What - Henry Rubberlegs Williams singing in the old tradition of Bessie
Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Don Byas, Trummie Young,
Every Bit - (same group)
Rose Noire - H. Carel's combo.
On SIDE
2:
Comes The Don - Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Hank D'Amico, Charlie Shavers,
Tiny Grimes, Slam Stewart, Johnny Garnieri, Cozy Cole
Beat Bounce - Same artists as for Bouncy and Blues at Down
Cravin' - Hen Gates' Combo
Kilroy Was Here - Dorothy Donegan
Edna - Sabby Lewis Band
Swinging The Blues - Eddie South, Hank Jones, Leonard Garkin.
MASTERSEAL
MS-75
This was another compiltaion with reshuffled songs.
On SIDE 1
Sarah Vaughan: East Of The Sun, Mean To Me - Sarah Vaughan
A Bell For Norvo, Time On My Hands - Red Norvo
Blues At Mary Lou's, D.D.T. - Mary Lou Williams
On SIDE 2
Little Girl From St. Louis, Kilroy Was Here - Dorothy Donogan
Thanks For The Memory, Esquire Jump - Coleman Hawkins
I Want Every Bit, That's The Blues - Trummie Young