Recently I realized that Michael Fitzgerald's excellent Philly Joe Jones Leader Entry lists the following unissued session:
Date: September 1963 Location: New York City Label: Dauntless
Philly Joe Jones (ldr), John Gilmore (ts), Tommy Turrentine (t), Charles Greenlee (tb), Elmo Hope (p), Larry Ridley (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)
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[unknown titles] (Composer Unknown)
Lord CDROM 8.0 lists this session with no further details.
I'm a huge fan of Philly Joe, Elmo Hope and John Gilmore, so this looks very interesting. There is an excellent recording called "Sounds from Rikers Island", also recorded in 1963 for Audio Fidelity (Dauntless' parent company?) by the similar personnel.
Does anybody know the whereabouts of Dauntless tape vault? Is there any possibility that the session tape survives?