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Dizzy Gillespie – Chicago, IL (xx/xx/48)

Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (W/ Miles Davis)
XX-XX-1948
Pershing Ballroom
Chicago, Illinois

Project ID – LL99

Source: Aud
Lineage: Audience recording > ?? > Philology Volume 13 (W 843), Volume 41 (W 872) >
ripped with soundforge > ?? > cd (Peter Losin’s Archive) >
cd duplicated (burner to burner) > eac > flac ( lvl 8 )

J.B. “Dizzy” Gillespie (tpt, leader); Miles Davis (tpt); Dave Burns (tpt);
Willie Cook (tpt); Elmon Wright (tpt); Jesse Tarrant (tb); Andy Duryea (tb);
Charlie Parker (as); John Brown (as); Ernie Henry (as); Joe Gayles (ts);
James Moody (ts); Cecil Payne (bs); James Foreman, Jr. (p); Nelson Boyd (b);
Teddy Stewart (d); Chano Pozo (cga)

disc 1

d1t01. Yesterdays
d1t02. ‘Round Midnight
d1t03. Algo Bueno
d1t04. Manteca
d1t05. Ool Ya Koo
d1t06. Lover Man
d1t07. Good Bait
d1t08. Good Bait
d1t09. Unknown Title
d1t10. All the Things You Are
d1t11. Ornithology
d1t12. Groovin’ High
d1t13. Ool Ya Koo
d1t14. I Can’t Get Started
d1t15. Don’t Blame Me
d1t16. Cool Breeze
d1t17. Things to Come
d1t18. Oo Bop Sh’Bam
d1t19. A Night in Tunisia
d1t20. What is This Thing Called Love?
d1t21. Half Nelson

Notes:

  • * ALL tracks are fragmented.
  • This recording is very lacking in sound quality. The sound, when audible over
    the flaws, is very muffled and distorted. If you take the time to concentrate through
    the flaws, this sounds as though it was a fantastic show. I would have to mark this for
    very enthusiastic completists only.
  • Thanks to Peter Losin for the source!
  • “In the notes to Philology W 843 Robert Bregman claims that “Miles was on the bill
    [this] night but our tapes do not have him and Bird together.” Philology W 843 gives
    “possibly August or Fall, 1948” as the date for this session. This raises difficulties,
    however, since Davis (as a member of the Parker Quintet) was booked in various New York
    venues throughout July, spent the month of August rehearsing his Nonet, and spent most
    of September in the Royal Roost with both groups. All of this is well documented on
    recordings. And by December Parker was back at the Roost for a four month gig that
    extended through March 1949. Despite these difficulties, Ken Vail (Bird’s Diary)
    places the Pershing Hotel Gillespie Big Band show on September 26. He makes no mention
    of Davis.”- Credit to Peter Losin,http://www.plosin.com/
  • “A Davis-like trumpet is certainly present on the three titles indicated; it’s hard
    to tell whether he plays on the rest of the titles. And given the schedule alluded to
    above, I’m very skeptical that Davis is present at all.” – Credit to Peter Losin,
    //www.plosin.com/
  • “There is also a Parker quintet item (“Groovin’ High,” 1:21) usually placed at
    the Pershing on or around this date. There’s no trumpet solo on this fragment,
    so it’s impossible to tell if Davis is present. My guess is that he’s not.”
  • Credit to Peter Losin,http://www.plosin.com/
  • QC done by Bgreen