[78-L] Birdland label

[Bill McClung]

I finally thought to go to my bookshelf and in Donald Maggin's Stan Getz A
Life in Jazz it says that the Junior Parker who performed on this session
was born Arthur Daniels and was a protege of Charlie Parker.  No connection
to the other Junior Parker.

And in Dave Gelly's Stan Getz Nobody Else But Me it says Getz participated
in a Prestige (no mention of Birdland) recording session on January 6, 1950
in NYC that produced the songs for the Birdland sides.  It also says
Birdland was owned in part by Morris Levy and it was Levy who set up the
sessions.  So I'm thinking Birdland Records was founded in Chicago and was
moved to NYC as it got into financial difficulty.




On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:14 PM, eugene hayhoe <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> There is another - I just recently picked up a jazz set from the early '60s
> with Junior Parker singing one song, and it was definitely not Herman. Now,
> if I can just remember who the leader was! Will figure it out if someone
> else doesn't get it out there first.
>
> Gene
>
> --- On Mon, 1/4/10, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Birdland label
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:42 AM
>
>
> Thanks, Julian
> Not very many releases.  And, of course, it leads to another question.
>
> Was the Junior Parker who did the vocal on the Getz Star Dust the same
> Junior Parker who recorded for Modern, Sun, and Duke?
>
> I only found one web source that says he was the same. Everyone else starts
> Parker's recording career in 1952. But how did a 17-year-old West Memphis
> kid wind up a vocalist with the Stan Getz Quartet in 1949 presumably in
> NYC?  Please no heroin jokes.
>
> Is there another Junior Parker?  One that was well known that caused Parker
> to bill himself as Little Junior Parker when he recorded for Sun?
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> >wrote:
>
> >  Bill McClung wrote:
> > > Anyone have any information on the Birdland label?  Or how many 78s
> were
> > > released?
> > >
> > > Indie Labels doesn't list it and ARLD just says New York City (50?).
> > >
> > > I'm guessing there is a relationship with Prestige only because there
> is
> > an
> > > overlap of musicians and there is a resemblance in the way the labels
> are
> > > designed.
> > >
> > > The two I have are
> > >
> > > Birdland 6001  I've Got You Under My Skin/There's a Small Hotel
> > > Stan Getz Quartet
> > > Al Haig piano
> > > Tommy Potter bass
> > > Roy Haynes drums
> > > Stan Getz tenor
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > Birdland 6005  Blues Up and Down/You Can Depend On Me
> > > Gene Ammons tenor
> > > Sonny Stitt tenor
> > > Duke Jordan piano
> > > Tommy Potter bass
> > > Jo Jones drums
> > > _______________________________________________
> > Found these in Lord 10.0:
> >
> > Stan Getz Quartet:
> > Stan Getz (ts) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Roy Haynes (d) Junior Parker
> > (vcl)
> > New York, January 6, 1950
> > BL1200-C    Star dust (jp vcl)    Birdland 6002,
> > BL1202-C    There's a small hotel (*)    Birdland 6001,
> > BL1204-B    I've got you under my skin (alt take)    Birdland 6001
> > Note: Birdland 6002 issued as by "Junior Parker with the Stan Getz
> > Quartet".
> >
> > Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts) Wynton Kelly (p) Al Casey (g) Frank Skeete
> > (b) Lee Abrams (d) Carl Davis (vcl)
> > New York, February 7, 1950
> > BL1206    I'm gonna eat you with a spoon (cd vcl)    Birdland 6003
> > BL1207    Little Rock [Sweet and lovely] (1)    Birdland 6004, Prest 866,
> > BL1209    The Lock (2)    Birdland 6004,
> > Note: Birdland 6003 released as "Carl Davis with Eddie Davis and his
> Band".
> >
> >
> > Sonny Stitt
> > New York, January 26, 1950
> > JRC1007A    Fine and dandy          Birdland 9002
> >
> >      Julian Vein
> >
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