[78-L] Artie Shaw

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

I’m pleased to hear Red Norvo’s charts are safe. I had forgotten to add 
in what you say about Horace Henderson’s involvement with certain of 
Fletcher’s arrangements. Horace was a stellar arranger. We can hear 
this in the fine batch of recordings he made in 1933 for English 
Parlophone (later reissued in Decca’s Gems of Jazz album  series; in 
his own band recordings for Okeh, and on the very hard to find sides on 
Jamboree supervised by Harry Lim). In addition to supervising sessions 
for Keynote and Jamboree, I believe (but have no proof) that Lim also 
supervised jazz sessions for Seeco that featured Stan Getz and Wardell 
Gray along with personnel that would also make four sides for Lim’s own 
HL 78 imprint and serve as part of the famous Stan Getz Quintet that 
recorded for Roost.
Geoffrey Wheeler.