[78-L] Kansas City Jazz (Decca DL-8044) 78 rpm set info?

[David Lennick]

On 10/8/2010 10:49 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Anybody got Dexter's book handy? I had a copy but it disappeared
>>> years ago, so I'm relying on faulty memory (as Dexter might have been). dl
>
> I have the book but it also is not handy.  Since Avakian did not do
> anything for Decca after this -- and he had gone on to Columbia --
> perhaps Dexter was involved in the Gems of Jazz series and some of the
> others.  When did he go on to Capitol?  Perhaps it was the jazz
> anthology series at Capitol he was talking about?
>
> But I really think you might be confusing Dexter's story for Avakian,
> because he was the one who was a kid when proposing the album series --
> and he has even claimed to have been in high school when he wrote the
> letter to Brunswick that eventually got him the job at Columbia at the
> time the Chicago Decca album came out.
>
> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com

Entirely possible..it's been 30 years since I saw Dexter's book.

dl

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>
> On 10/8/2010 10:33 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> One of many great anthology albums Decca issued in the early 40s. Dave Dexter
>>> Jr wrote about instigating that series when he was still too young to vote. dl
>>
>> If he said this, he lied. The series of Decca jazz anthologies based on
>> cities was proposed in 1938 and started in 1939 by George Avakian.
>> Avakian was at Yale when when he thought of the idea and suggested it in
>> a letter to Decca as they began their album series. He started
>> producing the Chicago Jazz album in the summer of 1939 and it was
>> finished and issued in the Spring of 1940. He was too busy at school
>> for the other two and suggested that Steve Smith should produce the New
>> Orleans set and Dave Dexter do the Kansas City set which was the THIRD
>> one.
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