Rare & rare-ish Era music broadcasts/outtakes/soundboards

[davidraphael]

I'm a collector of radio broadcasts (and acetates), studio outtakes, mixing desk/soundboard feeds, and generally any Era music (mostly jazz) that is either rare and only circulated amongst collectors, or hasn't even been released (and if it has then only unofficially by bootleg companies). I thought I'd start compiling a list of pre-1965 recordings here.
Needless to say, the further one goes back in time the harder it is to find recordings, especially before 1950.

The details of some aren't clear and it would be great if anyone out there with any information could fill in the missing jigsaw pieces:

(note: these are all digital lossless (ie, uncompressed for preservation purposes). In many cases, for example the acetates and radio station disks, there are only single copies in existence)


-- Benny Goodman. Complete 1937 "Madhattan Room" Broadcasts. Hotel Pennsylvania New York, NY 1937.10.13 - 1937.12.22 (12 broadcasts)

-- Benny Goodman Small Groups. Radio airchecks 1939-41

-- Duke Ellington Orchestra. Alu Palast in Hamburg, Germany, June 10, 1950. (acetate from the BFN (British Forces Network))

-- Nat King Cole trio. Live in Los Angeles 1944.xx.xx (?)

-- Frank Sinatra w/Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, CA XX.XX.1940 (? - potentially 1945-09-11)

-- "Frank And Dean's Hollywood Party" The Share Inc. Boom Town Show. Hollywood, CA May 14, 1959

-- The Rat Pack. Villa Venice Night Club Chicago, Il. 1962.11.26

-- Louis Armstrong. Deutsches Museum, Munich Germany, 1962-10-XX (?)

-- Louis Armstrong. University of North Carolina Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC. May 8, 1954

-- Lionel Hampton All Stars. Sportpalast in Berlin, Germany, October 04, 1953

-- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk. Atlantic Studios. NY, NY May 14 & 15, 1957

-- Sonny Rollins Trio. Live in Zürich, Switzerland, March 05, 1959

-- Ben Webster with the Modern Jazz Quartet. Birdland, New York, NY February 21, 1953 & February 28, 1953

-- Louis Jordan (and the Tympany 5). World War II AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Jubilee Radio Shows. 1943-1945

-- Billie Holiday. Just Jazz w/Ed Beach. Early 60s (?)

-- Charles Mingus. Odd Fellow Palæet Copenhagen Denmark 4-14-1964

-- The Count Basie Orchestra, Newport Jazz Festival Newport, Rhode Island/USA, 2nd July 1959

-- Gerry Mulligan. TBS Concert Hall, Tokyo 3 July 1964

-- Kenny Burrell At the Kool New Port Jazz Festival, New Port, RI (?) July 1959

-- Miles Davis. WNYC Studio, New York February 18, 1950

-- Miles Davis Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Concertgebouw. December 8, 1957

-- Miles Davis. Spotlite Lounge Radio Broadcasts. 1958 (?)

-- Miles Davis Quintet. Live At The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK 1960 (?)

-- Miles Davis All Stars. Featuring John Coltrane. 1958-59 (?)

-- Miles Davis.'Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival', Antibes, France. July 28, 1963

-- Miles Davis Studio Sessions & Outtakes: Kind of Blue Sessions March 2, 1959 & April 22, 1959

-- Miles Davis. Studio Sessions & Outtakes: "Round About Midnight" 1955, 1956 (?)

-- Miles Davis. Radio Broadcasts. NYC (Birdland January 3/August 25) & Chicago (Chicago Stadium, August 7), 1959

.......That's all for now, folks!...Lots more to come!


Update #1:

-- Oscar Peterson Trio. Newport July 3rd, 1959

-- Oscar Peterson Trio. Bremen. 1964-05-11

-- Oscar Peterson Trio. Slovenska filharmonija. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia July 29, 1964

-- Dave Brubeck. Basel, Switzerland 1963-09-28

-- John Coltrane. Birdland New York, NY, USA 1951 Radio broadcasts (6 Jan, 13 Jan, 3 Feb, 17 March)

-- John Coltrane. Falkonerteatret Copenhagen, DK 1961-11-20

-- Ella Fitzgerald Concertgebouw Amsterdam 1961.01.19, 1961.02.18.

-- Miles Davis. w/ Charlie Parker Quintet Finale Club, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles CA Unknown Radio Broadcast. Early March 1946

-- The Thelonious Monk Quartet. NYC. February 16, 1948, (WNYC "Festival of American Music" broadcast)

-- Red Norvo Trio. Unknown studio(s) Hollywood, CA. 1949 - 1950 (Standard Transcriptions disc)

-- Stan Getz. The Woodhouse, Stockholm 1955-09-05

-- Benny Goodman backup band. Rehearsal session. NYC 1941-03-13 (a very rare 16" acetate!)

Lots more to come!

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Goodman 1937 remotes were recorded originally by Bill Savory, a CBS technician and jazz enthusiast who recorded hundreds of band remotes for his own purposes between the mid-thirties and early forties -- a few years ago the National Jazz Museum acquired the bulk of the Savory collection and is in the process of having the discs preserved. The Madhattan Room broadcasts were released in the early 70s on a series of LPs put out on the Sunbeam label, and these LPs are the source material for all the different versions that have circulated since, including a boxed set of CDs on the Viper's Nest label, a bootleg operation that eventually got busted for failure to pay mechanical royalties.

 

[davidraphael]

Thanks. I think my copies of Madhattan probably come from the Viper's Nest release.

 

[davidraphael]

Latest acquisition:

-- Howlin' Wolf. Outtakes, demos and alternate takes. Chess Records 1948-1968