Birdland All-Stars
06-30-1950
Birdland
New York, New York

Project ID – 84

Source: Audience Recording

Lineage: Audience Recording > ?? > cd (Peter Losin’s Archive) >
cd duplicated (burner to burner) > eac > wave > flac (lvl 8 )

Miles Davis (tpt); Theodore “Fats” Navarro (tpt); J.J. Johnson (tb);
Charlie Parker (as); Milton “Brew” Moore (ts); Tadd Dameron (p);
Walter Bishop, Jr. (p); Dillon “Curly” Russell (b); Art Blakey (d);
Roy Haynes (d); Chubby Newsome (voc); Pee Wee Marquette (ann)

disc 1

d1t01. Band warming up
d1t02. Wee
d1t03. Ow/
d1t04. Band warming up
d1t05. September in the Rain
d1t06. Embraceable You
d1t07. Introduction
d1t08. Chubby’s Blues
d1t09. For You My Love

disc 2

d2t01. Band warming up
d2t02. Max is Making Wax
d2t03. /Hot House
d2t04. 52nd Street Theme
d2t05. Conception/Deception
d2t06. Eronel
d2t07. 52nd Street Theme/

Notes:

• d1t03 is cut at the beginning of the track
• d2t04 is a short teaser of 52nd street theme
• d2t07 is cut at he end of the track.
• The quality is what you would expect from an audience recording from 1950. It is plauged
  with static and distortion is definetly present, especially up to d1t03. It
  improves on/after d1t03.There is another step up in quality on/after d1t06. The sound
  on/after d1t06 is very pleasing.
• “Parker plays only on the closing chorus of “Conception.”- Credit to Peter Losin,
  http://www.plosin.com/
• “There is a lot of uncertainty about the dating of this music. The Miles Davis-Stan
  Getz Sextet was booked at Birdland for a week in February (Feb 9-16), and some
  broadcast recordings have been issued.” – Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
• “Davis’s own sextet, with Brew Moore replacing Getz and occasionally joined by
  vocalist “Little” Jimmy Scott, remained at Birdland (opposite Ella Fitzgerald and the
  Bud Powell Trio) through July 6th.” – Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
• “In the notes to the JMY CD, Enrico Merlin argues that these tunes are all from a
  single night, June 30. Ken Vail (Miles’ Diary) claims that broadcast recordings were
  made over several nights during this period:
  • May 17 (Wed): Max is Making Wax; Chubby’s Blues; Conception/Deception
  • May 18 (Thu): Hot House; 52nd Street Theme (Davis was in Columbia’s 30th Street
    Studios with Sarah Vaughan and the Jimmy Jones Octet for sessions on May 18 and 19.)
  • May 20 (Sat): ‘Round Midnight; Embraceable You; Wee
  • May 21 (Sun): Ow; For Now My Love [sic]; September in the Rain; Eronel; 52nd
    Street Theme
  • May 29 (Mon): 52nd Street Theme
  • May 30 (Tue): Wee; Chubby’s Blues
  • June 30 (Fri): Hot House; Embraceable You; Eronel; 52nd Street Theme
    (Walter Bishop, Jr. replaces Tadd Dameron)

Vail’s source is probably Boris Rose’s “log,” which lists many of these tunes with the
titles under which they were first issued — “Poobah,” “Moo,” “Mile’s Midnight Breakaway,”” “Overturia,” “Rambunctious Rambling,” etc.

• Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
• “A second trumpet is audible on several tunes — “Hot House,” “Conception/Deception,”
  “Eronel,” and the long “52nd Street Theme” — and this is usually identified as Fats
  Navarro, who died of tuberculosis on July 7. He’s in sad shape here, and seems especially
  lost on “Conception/Deception.”” – Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
• “”In favor of the June 30 date, however unlikely it may seem given Navarro’s death on
  July 7, Dan Morgenstern writes in the Columbia liner notes that “Ira Gitler, who saw
  Fats at Birdland in 1950, recalls him as a shrunken, pitiful figure, racked by coughing
  and playing feebly. But available clues have been checked and rechecked, and June 30 is
  the date that comes up.” On the other hand, writing about some other recordings of Navarro,
  Gitler remarked, “I question the May 1950 dating of records made of his broadcasts from
  CafÈ Society… His playing seems… too alive for the man who would be dead of
  tuberculosis on July 7″ (Jazz Masters of the Forties, p. 101.” – Credit to Peter Losin,
  http://www.plosin.com/
• QC done by Bgreen