[78-L] Jack Sheedy

[Han Enderman]

I wrote about the various Coronet labels in Names & Numbers 60 (the Christmas 2011 = Jan 2012 issue).
Personnels are on the Coronet labels, and Desmond is on Koronet 109 (pictured).
Koronet 110 has not been seen, but reportedly and likely is from the same session as 109.
Desmond thus not on Coronet 105/106 (no J-prefixes here), which simply are another 4-title session.
Desmond went in 1950 to NYC, and thus c.1951 is too late.

han enderman
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>>> From Lord 10.0:
Jack Sheedy's Dixieland Jazz Band:
Jack Minger (cnt) Jack Sheedy (cnt,vcl) Vince Cattolica (cl) Paul 
Desmond (as-1, cl-2) Bill Erickson (p) Norman Bates (b) Cuz Cousineau (d)
San Francisco, CA, January, 1950
     Royal garden blues    Coronet J105
     A good man is hard to find           -
     Blues in the night            J106
     Muskrat ramble           -
     The man I love (1)    Philology (It)W72-2 [CD]
     Down in honky tonk town (1)             -
Note: Philology (It)W72-2 [CD] titled "Paul Desmond - Sweet Paul, Vol. 
1"; rest of CD by Dave Brubeck. "Down in honky tonk town" should be 
marked (2).

I have the Philology issue with the last two titles, which claims they 
are Desmond's first recorded solos, though not necessarily his first 
recordings.

"The Man I Love" is played as a slow mood piece (with Cousineau on vibes 
according to Philology)--a bit like Red Norvo's version for Keynote. 
"Down in honky tonk town" is played as expected in New Orleans style. I 
don't recall another example of a band playing in such contrasting 
styles at the same session.

Phllology also claim it's Norman Bates on piano and brother Bob on bass.

Coronet was Sheedy's label, but were the last two titles recorded for 
the label? "Down in honky tonk town" is faded down at the end--perhaps 
the reason for non-issue or was it because the disc used for transfer 
was damaged towards the end?

I also have Coronet 1105, but there's no Desmond there.

Does Desmond solo on this session:

Jack Sheedy
Jack Minger (cnt) Jack Sheedy (tb,vcl) Paul Desmond (cl) Norman Bates 
(p) Bob Bates (b) Cuz Cousineau (d)
c. 1951
     How long, baby, how long (pt 1)    Coronet J109
     How long, baby, how long (pt 2)           -


      Julian Vein
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