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Miles Davis
January 17, 1949 (4 items, 15:26)
WPIX Studio, New York
WPIX broadcast
All-Star jam session

Source: WPIX broadcast
Lineage: Broadcast > unknown transfer > "Rare Miles Vol. 1" bootleg > wav > shn


Miles Davis (tpt); Kai Winding (tb); Buddy DeFranco (cl);
Eli "Lucky" Thompson (ts); Charlie Ventura (ts, bs); Al Haig (p);
Oscar Pettiford (b); Shelly Manne (d)

d1t01. The Squirrel (T. Dameron) 4:23
d1t02. Fine and Dandy (P. James-K. Swift) 2:21
d1t03. Anthropology (D. Gillespie-C. Parker) 3:43
d1t04. Body and Soul (J. Green-E. Heyman-R. Sour-F. Eyton) 4:59


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Notes:
- A fine recording for its age, continuous with no breaks through the
first three tracks. Slight hiss in the background. Occasional
light crackle belies phonograph disc recording in the lineage.

- d1t01. Voiceover 0:26-1:33: "Well, good evening, music lovers, and
welcome once again to another WPIX jazz concert. We're kinda
happy to have you with us this time, because, ah, we're
observing some very, very conspicuous firsts -- our first
readings of bebop, and a little while later during the program
itself, two awards made by Metronome magazine. Our guests this
evening, the lovely Carol Bruce, from the very successful musical
Along Fifth Avenue, and the gentleman to her right is Mr. George
Simon, the editor of Metronome magazine. More about them in just a
moment, but right now I'd like to, ah, bring to your attention some
of our personnel: there's Miles Davis on trumpet over there, and
Lucky Thompson on sax. Buddy DeFranco'll be playing the clarinet
this evening, Kai Winding on 'trambone', and Oscar Pettiford
himself is up there on the bass. Rattling the skins is Shelly Manne,
and the fella with the built-in hairdo is, ah, Al Haig on the piano.
And they're doing things to a little item called 'The Squirrel',
I'll have you know."

- d1t02. Continues from last track. Announcer Introduction:
"...Suite 88, with a little thing called 'Fine and Dandy', willya?"
Voiceover at end of track ""Wonderful, Kenny,..."

- d1t03. Continues from previous track. Announcers talking before music
starts at track beginning "...Wonderful". "Jack?" "Yeah?"
"Jack!" "Yeah" "The very charming Miles guy over there, Miles Davis,
with, ah, a tune called 'Anthropology'. This is bebop!"

- d1t04. Clapping from previous track continues briefly, then there is a
cut in the continuity of the show at 0.68 s. Track cuts out abruptly with
announcer saying , "Wonderful, kids, wonderful".

- Announcer transcriptions courtesy Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/

- This version missing final track "How High the Moon (N. Hamilton-M. Lewis) 3:41",
according to Losin.

- Historically this show has been listed as an "WPIX Radio broadcast", however,
WPIX was a television station established in NYC in June 15, 1948 (Channel 11),
owned New York Daily News (the "PIX" in WPIX is shorthand for "pictures").
The radio station WPIX-FM was established in 1966 after the New York Daily News
purchased WBFM and changed the call letters. The call letters for WPIX-FM were
changed to WQCD in 1988.

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