[78-L] Dizzy Discs

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Mar 4 01:44:24 PST 2009


David Lennick wrote:
> What do I have here, folks? I picked up two twelve-inch lacquers with partial 
> labels, apparently from a Dizzy Gillespie big band concert in the Salle Pleyel. 
> Very nicely recorded, possibly dubbed from other discs (some SN is evident in 
> one side and it has that dubbed sound). They play "Round About Midnight" on two 
> sides, "Yesterdays" and "I Can't Get Started". Writing on one of the sleeves 
> says "Them There Eyes" and "Honeysuckle Rose" but that's probably another disc. 
> There are some numbers..No. 8A (CD 1077), 8B (CD 1072), 9A (CD 1013), and that 
> part of the label missing from what is probably 9B. The 10xx numbers are in a 
> different colour ink from the other hand written info.
> 
> dl
> _______________________________________________
Presumably it's from this concert:

Dizzy Gillespie
Concert, "Salle Pleyel", Paris, February 28, 1948
     'Round midnight    Swing M33301, Vogue (F)LD651-30, Prest PR7818
     Algo bueno [Woody'n you]         -             -                  -
     I can't get started         -             -                  -
     Ool-ya-koo (dg,kh vcl)         -             -                  -
     Afro-Cubano suite         -             -                  -
     Things to come         -             -                  -
     Oop-pop-a-da (dg,kh vcl)                       -                  -
     Two bass hit                       -                  -
     Good bait                       -                  -
Note: All titles also on Vogue (F)DP18, 400018DP.

      Julian Vein




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