[78-L] Need Help Identifying A Label

[David Lennick]

That may have been in the "New American Jazz" album.

dl

On 11/8/2010 8:59 PM, Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> I have a very battered Capitol 78 of "Stormy Weather" with her taking a vocal.It
> had Benny Carter,Coleman Hawkins,Bill Coleman and Nat King Cole.It was issued by
> them in the early
> '70s on LP as part of a series that also included Capitol recordings by Benny
> Carter's 1943-
> 46 big band,Cootie Williams' 1945-46 band and Woody Herman's 1948-50 big band.I
> wo-
> nder if this album set was similar to a "jazz history" album that came out in 78
> many years ear-
> lier;I had the 78 album jackets less the records.This particular album had four
> records in the set.
> The aforementioned Kay Starr Capitol I have was by the "Capitol International
> Jazzmen".Many
> years ago,the late Al Hendrickson's wife Patti once referred to Capitol as the
> "round building that
> made square records".I used to have a number of those(either)black or purple
> label Capitol rec-
> ordings by either the "Capitol Jazzmen" or the "Capitol International Jazzmen".I
> once purchased,
> via ebay,a Melodie Jazz Classics CD of Teagarden's 1941 big band(that recorded
> for Decca)
> plus several tracks dating from 1943 which included Teagarden singing
> "Casanova's Lament" and
> a fairly good rendering of "Solitude" by the Capitol Jazzmen featuring Dave
> Matthews on tenor.The
> master on the CD was different than the original 78 I have of it in my
> collection which I've owned
> since 1971.
>