Recorded on this day ....

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February 24:

1949 - Chubby Jackson big band session for Columbia (Father Knickerbopper, Tiny's Blues, ...)

1951 - Lester Young at Birdland broadcast

1953 - Gerry Mulligan Quartet record session for Pacific Jazz

1956 - Sonny Criss quartet (with Sonny Clark) record session for Imperial (Go Man!)

1959 - Mal Waldron record session for Bethlehem, with Jackie McLean on one track (Left Alone)

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1955, René Urtreger - Joue Bud Powell (Barclay/JiParis)

1959, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh - Live at the Half Note (Verve)

1964, Yusef Lateef - 1984 (Impulse!)

1966, Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple (Blue Note)

[Gary]

1964

[MartyJazz]

February 24th. Recorded on this date:

1967, Hank Mobley Septet with Lee Morgan, James Spaulding, Sonny Greenwich,

Cedar Walton, Walter Booker & Billy Higgins - THIRD SEASON (Blue Note):

1992, Abbey Lincoln - DEVIL'S GOT YOUR TONGUE (completed 2/25, Verve):

[MartyJazz]

February 25th. Recorded on this date:

1954, Stan Kenton & Orchestra appear at the Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR

with special guests Charlie Parker & Lee Konitz

1958, Jimmy Smith 6 featuring Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks,

records "Lover Man", "Confirmation", "Au Privave",

"The Sermon", "Flamingo" for THE SERMON (Blue Note):

1963, Roland Kirk records REEDS & DEEDS (Mercury):

1964, Eric Dolphy 5 with Freddie Hubbard - OUT TO LUNCH (Blue Note):

1982, John Carter Octet featuring Bobby Bradford & James Newton

- DAUWHE (ends on 3/8, Black Saint):

1991, Abbey Lincoln with Stan Getz - YOU GOTTA PAY THE BAND (Verve):

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Recorded on February 25:

1955 - Quincy Jones All Stars date for Columbia which remains unissued (except for one title 'Grasshopper')

1957 - Quincy Jones All Stars date for ABC-Paramount (Go West Young Man)

1969 - Duke Pearson records for BN (Merry Ole Soul)

1983 - Lee Konitz records for Sunnyside (Doevtail)

[MartyJazz]

February 26th. Recorded on this date:

1949, Charlie Parker 5 plus guests Lucky Thompson, Milt Jackson, Dave

Lambert* at the 'Royal Roost', NYC (Savoy):

"Half Nelson", "A Night in Tunisia", "Scrapple from the Apple",

*"Deedle", "What's This".

1958, Jimmy Smith records 1st half of SOFTLY AS A SUMMER BREEZE (Blue Note):

1969, Archie Shepp 7 with Jimmy Owens, Grachan Moncur III, Charles Davis,

Dave Burrell, Walter Booker & Beaver Harris record (Impulse):

"New Africa", "Bakai" (appears on THE WAY AHEAD).

1986, Woody Shaw 4 with Geri Allen, Robert Hurst & Roy Brooks perform at

'Baker's Keyboard Lounge', Detroit - BEMSHA SWING (Blue Note):

1986, Jessica Williams Trio - NOTHIN' BUT THE TRUTH (Black Hawk or Bellaphon).

[B. Goren.]

February 26, 1963:

1963 Thelonious Monk (pno), Charlie Rouse (ts), John Ore (b), Frankie Dunlop (dms), Tea for Two , Criss-Cross.

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February 26:

1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band record session for Victor (Livery Stable Blues,DixieJass Band One Step)

THE START OF IT ALL First 'official' jazz record session ever!

1926 - Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five record for Okeh (Cornet Shop Suey, Heebie Jeebie, etc...)

1947 - Charlie Parker New Stars (Howard McGhee, Wardell Gray, Dodo Marmarosa, ...) session for Dial (Relaxin' at Camarillo, Cheers, Carvin' The Bird, Stupendous)

1967 - Albert Ayler at the Village Theater (Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village) concert releqsed on Impulse

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February 27:

1936 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Brunswick (Clarinet Lament, Echoes of Harlem...)

1963 - The Orchestra USA record for Colpix (Debut album)

1965 - Jimmy Giuffre (with Don Friedman and Barre Phillips) at the Paris Olympia (RTE Live album)

1967 - John Coltrane (with Marion Brown,Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali) record session for Impulse (still unissued)

1970 - Miles Davis record session for Columbia (Willie Nelson)

and Dexter Gordon was born that day in 1923.

Happy Birthday, Dex!

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February 25-27 2001:

Henry Threadgill - Everybody's Mouth's a Book (Pi)

February 26-27 1980:

Pete Jolly and his Westcoast Friends - Strik up the Band (Galaxy)

February 27:

1955: Gil Mellé records 4 tunes for Blue Note

1968: Giogrio Azzolini - Crucial Moment (Rearward)

[MartyJazz]

February 27th. Recorded on this date:

1950, Al Haig Trio with Tommy Potter & Roy Haynes record (Prestige):

"Liza", "Stars Fell on Alabama", "Stairway to the Stars", "Opus Caprice".

(available on PRESTIGE FIRST SESSIONS, VOL. 1)

1956, All Star Group of Conte Candoli, Kenny Drew, Phil Woods, Al Cohn,

Hank Jones, John Simmons & Kenny Clarke record BIRDLAND STARS 1956

(RCA Victor)

1957, Gigi Gryce, Donald Byrd, Wade Legge, Wendell Marshall & Art Taylor

begin recording GG & THE JAZZ LAB QUINTET (Riverside), completed 3/7/57:

1958, Max Roach & Oscar Pettiford record duet (Riverside):

"There Will Never be Another You" (available on REEDS & DEEDS)

1987, George Cables Trio with John Heard & Ralph Penland record a tribute

to George Gershwin - BY GEORGE (Contemporary):

1991 McCoy Tyner Trio with Avery Sharpe & Aaron Scott begin a tribute to

John Coltrane - REMEMBERING JOHN (ends on 2/28, Enja):

[Bill B]

1953-Erroll Garner Trio session for Columbia-records 13 extended tracks

[MartyJazz]

February 28th. Recorded on this date:

1955, Freddie Redd Trio with John Ore & Ron Jefferson record (Prestige):

"Debut", "The Things We Did Last Summer", "Lady J Blues", "Ready Freddie".

(available on PIANO EAST-PIANO WEST, along with Hampton Hawes 1952 session):

1959, Thelonious MonK - ORCHESTRA AT TOWN HALL (Riverside):

1962, Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet with Grachan Moncur III, Harold

Mabern, Herbie Lewis & Roy McCurdy - HERE & NOW

(completed on 3/2, Mercury):

1977, Bill Evans Trio plus Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh - CROSS-CURRENTS

(completed on 3/2, Fantasy):

Edited February 28, 2005 by MartyJazz

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1945 - Dizzy Gillespie (and Charlie Parker) record session for Guild (Groovin' High, All the Things You Are, Dizzy Atmosphere)

1955 - Chet Baker record session for Pacific Jazz (Grey December)

1961 - Cannonball Adderley record session for Riverside (African Waltz)

1972 - Count Basie and his Orchestra and Bing Crosby record session for Daybreak (Have a Nice Day)

[Bill B]

Feb 29-Erroll Garner Solo Session for Columbia-1952

[MartyJazz]

March 1st. Recorded on this date:

1960 Max Roach 5 with Stanley & Tommy Turrentine, Julian Priester &

Bob Boswell - PARISIAN SKETCHES (Mercury/Verve):

1961, Oliver Nelson 5 featuring Eric Dolphy, with Richard Wyands,

George Duvivier & Roy Haynes (Prestige New Jazz):

1963, Jackie McLean 5 featuring Grachan Moncur III - ONE STEP BEYOND

(Blue Note):

1991, David Murray with Don Pullen - SHAKILL'S WARRIOR (ends on 3/2, Columbia):

1993, MINGUS BIG BAND 1993 (Dreyfus):

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March 1st:

1926 - Sippie Wallace (with Louis Armstrong) record session for Okeh

1928 -The Jungle Band (Duke Ellington) record session for Brunswick (Rent Party Blues, Harlem Flat Blues, ...)

1940 - Count Basie and his Orchestra broadcast from the Southland Theater, Boston

1947 - Howard McGhee's Quintet (with Charlie Parker) appears at the Hi de Ho club in LA. Dean Benedetti records the proceedings

1962 - Grant Green records 'Born To Be Blue' for BN

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1951, Stan Getz records for Roost

1979, Ulrich Gumpert Workshop Band (Amiga). First of three recording days.

[Bill B]

1961 March 1-2 Ellington"Piano in the Foreground"

[Gary]

March 1st.  Recorded on this date:

1963, Jackie McLean 5 featuring Grachan Moncur III - ONE STEP BEYOND

(Blue Note):

Marty , is this another sleevenote error?

The select set has-

(A) Jackie McLean, alto saxophone; Grachan Moncur III, trombone; Bobby Hutcherson, vibes; Eddie Kahn, bass; Tony Williams, drums.

Recorded on April 30, 1963.

Originally issued as ONE STEP BEYOND by Jackie McLean (Blue Note BST 84137). The alternate take of "Saturday And Sunday" was originally issued on the CD version of the album (CDP 7-46821-2)

[couw]

my 1987 CD has the same info (March 1) on the back

[MartyJazz]

Mea culpa. The Jackie McLean discography available online confirms the April 30th date. My old Blue Note LP has the April 30th date that I pasted on it some 30+ years ago when I acquired it, however the problem is that my CD copy (Blue Note CDP7 46821 2) lists an erroneous March 1st recording date. Since I consult my CD database for recording dates when posting here, that's how the error occurred.

[MartyJazz]

March 2nd. Recorded on this date:

1953, Dave Brubeck Quartet - live performance, JAZZ AT OBERLIN (Fantasy):

1956, Lucky Thompson group with Martial Solal begin recording ballads &

standards session originally released on the Dawn label, now

available on the COMPLETE VOGUE RECORDINGS, VOL. 1 and on Fresh Sound:

1959, Miles Davis with Coltrane, Adderley, et al enter Columbia studio for

1st day of recording KIND OF BLUE ("Freddie Freeloader", "So What",

"Blue in Green"):

1959, Lester Young 5 with Rene Urtreger, Jimmy Gourley, George Joyner

(aka Jamil Nasser), Kenny Clarke record LESTER YOUNG IN PARIS (available on

THE COMPLETE STUDIO SESSIONS box set, Verve).

1965, Thelonious Monk Trio with Larry Gales, Ben Riley record (Columbia):

"Ruby, My Dear", "Honeysuckle Rose", "Darn That Dream", "Introspection".

1972, Stan Getz 4 with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams plus Airto Moreira - CAPTAIN MARVEL (Verve LP, Columbia CD):

1995, Charles McPherson 4 with Mulgrew Miller - COME PLAY WITH ME

(Arabesque):

Edited March 2, 2005 by MartyJazz

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March 2nd:

1935 - Coleman Hawkins avec Michel Warlop et son Orchestre (with Django Reinhardt) record session in Paris

1947 - The Howard McGhee Quintet (with Charlie Parker) performs at the Club Hi de Ho in Los Angeles. Dean Benedetti continues to record

1961 - Tina Brooks records session for BN (The Waiting Game)

1961 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (Love You Madly and others)