[78-L] Jess Stacy Question

david.diehl at hensteeth.com david.diehl at hensteeth.com
Fri Aug 28 16:03:31 PDT 2009


I imagine most jazz collectors would overlook Heidt ET's so there could well be something interesting lurking out there. 6 months would be a long dry spell for a popular outfit like HH to be completely unrecorded. Hindsight put out an LP "vol 2 1943-5" anybody got it? 
DJD

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From: Julian Vein [mailto:julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk]
> david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:>> Hi all>> I came across an article from April of 1944 reporting that Stacy's plans for a big band had fallen through and he had joined Horace Heidt.>> Has anybody out there found any airchecks of Heidt from this period with Jess on them?>> There's nothing in Lord online.>> Thanks,>> DJD>> Visit the Blue Pages: the Encyclopedic Guide to 78 RPM Party Records>> http://www.hensteeth.com>>>>> _______________________________________________On one of the Eddie Condon Town Hall concerts, Condon is heard to say during Stacy's playing: "Eat your heart out Horace Heidt!"In the notes to Aircheck #26 ("Jess Stacy on the air"), Derek Coller says: "...in April Stacy joined the Horace Heidt Orchestra...By August 1944 the Heidt show...had reached New York City...He left Horace Heidt during October to rehearse his own big band."Does this mean that there would be Horace Heidt Show transcriptions out there?Did Joyce do a Heidt discography? Julian Vein 




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