Recorded on this day ....

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November 26:

1924 - Red Onion Jazz Babies (Louis Armstrong, Aaron Thompson, Buster Bailey, Lil Hardin, Buddy Christian) record session for Gennett

1945 - Don Byas (Quintet Benny Harris, Jimmy Jones, John Levy, Fred Radcliffe) record session for Savoy

1945 - Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers (Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Sadik Hakim, Curley Russell, Max Roach) record session for Savoy ('Koko', 'Now's The Time', etc...)

1954 - Gene Ammons (Henderson Chambers, John Houston, George Brown, etc...) record session for Prestige

1954 - Eddie Shu Quartet (Bobby Scott, Vinnie Burke, Roy Haynes) record session for Bethlehem (The Eddie Shu Quartet

1956 - Art Pepper and Ted Brown (Warne Marsh, Ronnie Ball, George Tucker, Jeff Morton) record session for Contemporary (The Way It Was) and Vanguard (Free Wheeling)

1958 - Andre Previn and Friends (Red Mitchell, Frank Capp) record session for Contemporary (King Size!)

1960 - Grant Green (Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) record balance of 'First Session' album for BN

1960 (also Jan. 5 and 10, 1961) - Booker Ervin (Richard Williams, Horace Parlan, George Tucker, Dannie Richmond) record session for Savoy (Down in the Dumps)

1961 - Ike Quebec (Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton, Al Harewood) record session for BN (Heavy Soul!)

1962 - Charlie Rouse (Kenny Burrell, Lord Westbrook, Larry Gales, Willie Bobo, etc...) record session for BN (Bossa Nova Bacchanal)

1969 - Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet (Charles Moore, Leon Henderson, Ron Brooks, Danny Spencer) record session for BN (Multidiurection)

1971 - Miles Davis (Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett, Michael Henderson, etc...) concert at Lincoln Center, released on Session

1973 (also Nov. 27) - The Modern Jazz Quartet (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Connie Kay) record session for Atlantic (Blues on Bach)

1979 - Bill Evans Trio (Marc Johnson, Joe LaBarbera) concert at the Espace Cardin, released on Elektra (The Paris Concert, Edition One - Edition Two)

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November 27:

1926 - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (Henry Clarke, Johnny Dodds, Lil Armstrong, Johnny Saint-Cyr) record session for Okeh ('You Made Me Love You', 'Irish Black Bottom', etc...)

1933 - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (Shirley Clay, Jack Teagarden, Joe Sullivan, Gene Krupa, etc...) record session for Columbia ('Your Mother's Son In Law' with vocal by Billie Holiday, her recording debut!)

1939 - Benny Goodman Sextet (Lionel Hampton, Fletcher Henderson, Charlie Christian, Artie Bernstein, Nick Fatool) broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, released on MGM/Verve

1947 - Mutt Carey (James Archey, Edmund Hall, Cliff Jackson, Danny Barker, Pops Foster, Baby Dodds) record session for Savoy

1957 - Jackie McLean (Webster Young, Ray Draper, Gil Coggins, George Tucker, Larry Ritchie) record session for Jubilee (Fat Jazz)

1958 - Red Garland Trio (Paul Chambers, Art Taylor) record session for Prestige (All Kinds of Weather)

1959 (also Nov. 30) - Jimmy Heath (Nat Adderley, Curtis Fuller, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Albert Heath) record session for Riverside (The Thumper)

1963 (also Oct. 10) - Wes Montgomery Trio (Mel Rhyne, George Brown) record session for Riverside (Portrait of Wes)

1967 (also Nov. 30) - Roland Kirk (Ron Burton, Steve Novosel, Jimmy Hopps) record session for Atlantic (The Inflated Tear)

1968 - Miles Davis (Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Jack deJohnette) record session for Columbia (Directions)

1972 - McCoy Tyner (Sonny Fortune, Calvin Hill, Alphonse Mouzon) record session for Milestone (Song For My Lady)

1973 (also Nov. 27, 28, Dec. 4) - Paul Desmond (Bob James, Gene Bertoncini, Ron Carter, Jack deJohnette, Ralph McDonald) record session for CTI (Skylark)

1979 (also Nov. 28) - Johnny Griffin Quartet (Ronnie Mathews, Ray Drummond, Idris Muhammad) record session for Galaxy (To The Ladies)

1981 (also Nov. 28, 29) - Freddie Hubbard (Joe Henderson, Bobby hutcherson, Billy Childs, Larry Klein, Steve Houghton) at Keystone Korner, released on Fantasy (Keystone Bop)

1987 (also Nov. 28) - The Paris Reunion Band (Nat Adderley, Woody Shaw, Curtis Fuller, Joe Henderson, Nathan Davis, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Woode, Al Levitt) at Ronnie Scott's Club, released on Sonet (Hot Licks)

Edited November 27, 2005 by brownie

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November 28:

1944 - Jimmy Shirley solo guitar record session for BN (still unissued!)

1947 - Red Norvo (Ray Linn, Jimmy Giuffre, Dexter Gordon, Barney Kessel, Red Callender, Jackie Mills) record session for Capitol

1950 - Charlie Parker and the Maurice Moufflard Orchestra (Roger Guérin, Georges Jouvin, André Paquinet, etc...) radio broadcast on Poste Parisien, released on various labels

1951 - Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra (Eddie Miller, Allan Reuss, Nick Fatool, etc...) record session for Decca ('When It's Sleepy Time Down South', 'Indian Love Call', etc...)

1952 - Lester Young (Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessell, Ray Brown, J.C. Heard) record session for Norgran (Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio)

1955 (also Nov. 29, 30) - Jackie Paris (Hal McKusick, Frank Socolow, Bill Triglia, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for Wing (Songs by Jackie Paris)

1955 - Chet Baker Quartet (Raymond Fol, Benoit Quersin, Jean-Louis Viale) record session for Barclay

1959 - Lou Donaldson (Blue Mitchell, Horace Parlan, Sam Jones, Al Harewoo) record session for BN (The Time Is Right)

1961 (also Dec. 18) - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Jymie Merritt) record session for BN (Buhai_na's Delight)

1961 - The Jazz Brothers (Chuck Mangione, Sal Nistico, Gap Mangione, Frank Pullara, Vinnie Ruggieri) record session for Riverside (The Jazz Brothers)

1961 - Gene Ammons (Joe Newman, Jack McDuff, Wendell Marshall, Walter Perkins, Ray Barretto) record session for Prestige (Twisting the Jug)

1962 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) concert at Graz, Austria, released on Unique Jazz and other labels

1962 - Etta Jones (Jerome Richardson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bobby Donaldson) record session for Prestige (Love Shout)

1966 (also Nov. 30) - Zoot Sims (Gary McFarland, strings, etc...) record session for Impulse (The Waiting Game

1966 - Richard Groove Holmes (Gene Edwards, Palo Landrum) record session for Prestige (Spicy)

1969 - Miles Davis (Benny Maupin, Steve Grossman, Larry Young, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, etc...) record one of the sessions for Columbia (The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions)

1974 (also Nov. 29) - Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie record duo session for Pablo (Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie)

1978 (also Nov. 30) - Zoot Sims and Rune Gustafsson (Bucky Pizzarelli, George Mraz, Peter Donald) record session for Pablo (The Sweetest Sound)

1978 (also Nov. 30) - Stanley Cowell (Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes) record session for Galaxy (Equipoise)

1983 - Chet Baker (Duke Jordan, Jesper Lundgaard) at the Jazz Cafe in Arnhem, released on Marshmallow (Star Eyes)

[Bill B]

1969-Bill Evans Trio (Gomez and Morell) record live @ RAI Building- Amsterdam released on various labels (Affinity, JHR)

Edited November 28, 2005 by Bill B

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November 29:

1926 - Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra record session for Vocalion ('East St.Louis Toodle Oo, ' Birmingham Breakdown')

1943 - Edmund Hall's Blue Note Jazzmen (Sidney de Paris, Vic Dickenson, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Shirley, Israel Crosby, Sidney Catlett) record session for BN

1945 - Chubby Jackson's Rhythm (Tony Aless, Billy Bauer, Shelly Manne) record session for Keynote

1948 - Fats Navarro Quintet (Don Lanphere, Linton Garner, Jimmy Johnson, Max Roach) record session for Dial,

1948 - Earl Coleman and his All Stars (the Fats Navarro Quintet) record session for Dial

1955 - Hank Jones (Joe Wilder, Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke) record session for Savoy (BlueBird)

1957 - Thelonious Monk Quartet (John Coltrane, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Shadow Wilson) concert at Carnegie Hall, released on BN and Mosaic (Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall)

1960 - Al Sears (Don Abney, Wally Richardson, Wendell Marshall, Joe Marshall) record session for Swingville (Swing's The Thing)

1960 - Steve Kuhn Trio (Scott LaFaro, Pete LaRoca Sims) private recording session, released on Polystar

1961 (also Dec. 18, 22) - Quincy Jones and his Orchestra (Joe Newman, Clark Terry, Billy Byers, Melba Lison, Julius Watkins, Phil Woods, Jerome Richardson, Bobby Scott, Buddy Catlett, Stu Martin, etc...) record session for Impulse (The Quintessence)

1963 (also Dec. 9) - Freddie Roach (Eddie Wright, Clarence Johnson) record session for BN (Good Move)

1966 - Lee Morgan (Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (The Rajah)

1967 (one of several sessions) - Carmen McRae (Conte Candoli, Freddy Hill, Frank Rosolino, Lou Blackburn, Frank Strozier, Buddy Collette, Norman Simmons, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne, Oliver Nelson, etc...) record session for Atlantic (Portrait of Carmen)

1976 (also Nov. 30) - Jo Jones (Harry Edison, Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickenson, Eddie Davis, Tommy Flanagan, Freddie Green, Sam Jones) record session for Pablo (The Main Man)

1977 (also Nov. 30, Dec. 1) - Philly Joe Jones (Nat Adderley, Dexter Gordon, Ira Sullivan, George Cables, Ron Carter) record session for Galaxy (Philly Mignon)

1981 (also Nov. 30) - Art Farmer (Sahib Shihab, Kenny Drew, Mads Vinding, Ed Thigpen) record session for Soul Note (Manhattan)

[Bill B]

1972- Johnny Hartman records session in Tokyo for Toshiba-EMI.Releaed onJapanese Capital.

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November 30:

1940 (also Dec. 2) - Jay McShann and his Orchestra (Buddy Anderson, Charlie Parker, Gene Ramey, Gus Johnson, etc...) broadcast from the Trocadero Ballroom, Wichita, released on Spotlite

1947 - Louis Armstrong and the All Stars (Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Dick Cary, Arvell Shaw, Sidney Catlett, Velma Middleton) in concert at Boston's Symphony Hall, released on Decca (Satchmo at Symphony Hall)

1948 - John Hardee Quartet (Al Haig, Clyde Lombardi, Tiny Kahn) record session for Castle

1949 - Charlie Parker with Strings (Mitch Miller, Stan Freeman, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich, etc...) record session for Mercury (Charlie Parker With Strings)

1949 - Carl Perkins Trio (Edwin Perkins, Herb Williams) record session for Savoy

1953 - Paul Bley Trio (Charles Mingus, Art Blakey) record session for Debut (Introducing Paul Bley)

1953 - Lionel Hampton (Mezz Mezzrow, Andre Persiany, Buddy Banks, Curley Hamner, Kansas Fields) record session for Barclay (Crazy Hamp)

1954 - Joe Puma Quintet (Don Elliott, Barry Galbraith, Vinnie Burke, Teddy Sommers) record session for Bethlehem (East Coast Jazz 3)

1956 - Tadd Dameron Quartet (John Coltrane, John Simmons, Philly Joe Jones) record session for Prestige (Mating Call)

1957 - René Urtreger (Miles Davis, Barney Wilen, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke) recorded at the Olympia, released on Carlyne (Collection Privée 1957-1981)

1961 - Red Garland Trio (Larry Ridley, Frank Gant) record session for Jazzland (The Nearness of You)

1961 - Leonard Gaskin All Stars (Yank Lawson, Doc Cheatham, Cutty Cutshall, Vid Dickenson, Edmund Hall, Buster Bailey, Dick Wellstood, Herbie Lovelle) record session for Swingville (At the Jaz Band Ball)

1962 - Grant Green (Herbie Hancock, Reggie Workman, Billy Higgins) record sesion for BN (Goin' West)

1964 - Joe Henderson Quartet (Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw, Elvin Jones) record session for BN (Inner Urge)

1966 - Cecil Taylor Unit (Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille) concert at Maison de l'ORTF, released on Byg Japan and other labels (Paris Concert)

1966 (also Dec. 2, 5) - J.J. Johnson (Art Farmer, Snooky Young, Benny Powell, Jerome Richardson, Hank Jones, Ron Carter, Grady Tate, etc...) record session for RCA (The Total J.J. Johnson)

1971 - Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy (Kent Carter, Noel McGhie) record session for Victor Japan (Journey Without End)

1978 - Chet Baker Quartet (Phil Markowitz, Scott Lee, Jeff Brillinger) at Nick's Jazz Cafe in Laren, released on CrissCross (Live at Nick's)

1981 - Milt Jackson Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Grady Tate) record session for Pablo (Ain't Nothin' But a Few of Us Left)

1982 (also Dec. 1) - Tommy Flanagan Trio (George Mraz, Art Taylor) record session for Enja (Thelonica)

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[Bill B]

1966- Chick Corea records "Inner Space" session for Atlantic.(Woody Shaw,Joe Farrell Steve Swallow and Joe Chambers) Session completes 1 Dec.

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December 1:

1927 - Thomas Morris and his Hot Babies (Tom Morris, Jimmy Archey, Fats Waller, etc...) record session for Victor

1947 - Gene Ammons (Gail Brockmann, Junior Mance, Gene Wright, etc...) record session for Mercury

1949 - Tommy Turk (Leonard Hawkins, Frank Rosolino, Flip Phillips, Cecil Payne, Mickey Crane, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich) record session for Mercury

1949 - Artie Shaw and his Orchestra (Don Fagerquist, Herbie Stewart, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Jimmy Raney, Irv Kugler, etc...)record session for Thesaurus radio transcriptions, released on Solid Sender and other labels

1956 - Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra (Lee Morgan, Al Grey, Rod Levitt, Ernie Henry, Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly, etc...) at Birdland, released on Fanfare

1957 - Curtis Fuller (Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker, Louis Hayes) record session for BN (Curtis Fuller, vol. 3)

1959 - Jimmy Scott (Howard Biggs, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lloyd Trottman, Bunny Shawker) record session for Savoy

1961 - Jack McDuff (Harold Vick, Eddie Diehl, Joe Dukes) record session for Prestige (On With It!)

1961 - Eric Dolphy (McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, Mel Lewis) at jam session in Munich, released on Unique Jazz and other labels

1964 (also Dec. 3) - Buddy de Franco (Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Victor Feldman, Victor Sproles, Art Blakey) record session for Vee-Jay (Blues Bag)

1965 (also Nov. 16, 18) - Bernard Peiffer Trio (Johnny Coates, Gus Nemeth record session for Polydor (Prelude, Fugue & Trio)

1967 - McCoy Tyner (Lee Morgan, Julian Priester, Bob Northern, Howard Johnson, James Spaulding, Benny Maupin, Herbie Lewis, Joe Chambers) record session for BN (Tender Moments)

1970 (also Dec. 2, 3) - Brother Jack McDuff (Randy Brecker, Dick Griffin, Joe Beck, Mike Maineri, etc...) record session for BN (Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring)

1978 (also Dec. 2) - Art Pepper (Stanley Cowell, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes) record session for Galaxy (Art Pepper Today)

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More December 1st-

1944: Duke Ellington records for Victor

1945: Lionel Hampton records for Decca

1973: Duke Ellington recorded in Eastbourne, UK for RCA

1992: Michael Musillami- Glass Art (aka Mars Bars) (Evidence)

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December 2:

1924 - Sippie Wallace acc. by Clarence Williams Trio (Sidney Bechet, Buddy Christian) record session for Okeh ('Off and On Blues', etc...)

1941 - Lee and Lester Young's Band (Bumps Myers, Jimmy Rowles, Red Callender, etc...) broadcast from the Capri Club in LA, released on Everybody's

1955 - Sonny Rollins Quartet (Ray Bryant, George Morrow, Max Roach) record session for Prestige (Worktime)

1955 - Donald Byrd (Joe Gordon, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey) record session for Transition (Byrd's Eye View)

1956 - Lee Morgan Sextet (Kenny Rohers, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Paul Chambers, Charles Persip) record session for BN (Lee Morgan, vol. 3)

1957 (also Oct.14) - Bud Powell Trio (George Duvivier, Art Taylor) record session for Roulette (Bud Plays Bird)

1958 - Eddie Davis (Jerome Richardson, Shirley Scott, George Duvivier, Arthur Edgehill) record session for Prestige (Smokin')

1959 (also Dec. 3) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (Blues In Orbit)

1960 - Budd Johnson (Keg Johnson, Tommy Flanagan, George Duvivier, Charles Persip) record session for Swingville (Let's Swing)

1960 - Elmer Snowden (Cliff Jackson, Tommy Bryant, Jimmy Crawford) record session for Riverside (Harlem Banjo)

1965 - Frank Foster (Virgil Jones, Al Dailey, Bob Cunningham, Alan Dawson) record session for Prestige (Fearless Frank)

1966 (also Dec. 8) - Stan Getz (Herbie Hancock, Hank Jones, Jim Hall, Claud Ogerman, etc...) record session for Verve (Voices)

1968 (also Dec. 3) - Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Orchestra (Benny Bailey, Jimmy Deuchar, Ake Persson, Johnny Griffin, Sahib Shihab, etc...) record session for MPS/Saba (Fellini 7 1/2)

1973 - Duke Jordan Trio (Mads Vinding, Ed Thigpen) record session for SteepleChase (Flight to Denmark - Two Loves)

1974 - Count Basie and Oscar Peterson (Freddie Green, Ray Brown, louis Bellson) record session for Pablo (Satch and Josh)

1977 - Red Garland (Nat Adderley, Ira Sullivan, Harold Land, Ron Carter, Frank Butler) record session for Galaxy (Red Alert)

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Also December 2:

1927: Johnny Dodds records for Okeh

1940: Jay McShann (with Charlie Parker) broadcasts from Wichita, issued on Early Bird (Spotlite)

1959: John Coltrane records for Atlantic, tracks issued on Coltrane Jazz and Giant Steps

1959: Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster- session for Mulligan Meets Webster (Verve)

[Bill B]

1969-Erroll Garner Quartet records final "Feeling is Believing" session released on TELARC.

1994-Wynton Marsalis Septet records @ Village Vanguard Dec 2-4 released as part of Columbia Box Set.

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December 3

1933 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Victor ('Awful Sad', 'Daybreak Express', etc...)

1935 - Teddy Wilson (Dick Clark, Johnny Hodges, Dave Barbour, Grachan Moncur, Cozy Cole, Billie Holiday) record session for Brunswick

1943 - Andy Kirk and his Orchestra (Howard McGhee, Fats Navarro, Jimmy Forrest, John Young, Ben Thigpen, etc...) record session for Decca

1947 - Dodo Marmarosa Trio (Harry Babasin, Jackie Mills) record session for Dial

1947 - Howard McGhee Sextet (James Moody, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, J.C. Heard) record session for Dial

1954 - J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding (Dick Katz, Peck Morrison, Al Harewood) record session for Prestige (Jay and Kai)

1954 (one of several sessions) - Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars (Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Claude Williamson, etc...) record session for Contemporary (The Lighthouse All Stars, vol. 6)

1955 (also Jan. 25, 1956) - Hampton Hawes Trio (Red Mitchell, Chuck Thompson) record session for Contemporary (The Trio, vol. 2)

1956 (also Dec. 4) - Al Cohn (Bob Brookmeyer, Mose Allison, Teddy Kotick, Nick Stabulas) record session for Coral (The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer)

1957 (also Dec. 11, 17) - Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Chet Baker, Henry Grimes, Dave Bailey) record session for World Pacific (Reunion with Chet Baker)

1958 (also Dec. 1) - Joe Wilder (Urbie Green, Jerome Richardson, Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for Columbia (The Pretty Sound)

1962 - Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Gene Wright, Joe Morello) concert at the Amsterdam Concergebouw, released on Columbia (Brubeck in Amsterdam)

1963 - Booker Ervin (Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Alan Dawson) record session for Prestige (The Freedom Book)

1965 (also Dec. 4) - Ornette Coleman Trio (David Izenzon, Charles Moffett) at the Golden Circle, Stockholm, released on BN (Ornette Coleman at the Golden Circle)

1965 - Jackie McLean (Lee Morgan, Harold Mabern, Herbie Lewis, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Consequence)

1965 (also May 4, 1966) - Oscar Peterson Trio (Ray Brown, Louis Hayes) record session for Limelight (Blues Etude)

1968 - Duke Pearson Big Band (Randy Brecker, Jimmy Cleveland, Lew Takackin, Frank Foster, Pepper Adams, etc...) record session for BN (Now Hear This!)

[Bill B]

1963-Dave Brubeck Quartet Records "Time Changes" session

1993-Wynton Marsalis Septet records @ Village Vanguard relesed as prt of Columbia Box Set.

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December 4:

1924 - Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra (Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Kaiser Marshall, etc...) record session for Paramount ('Mandy Make Up Your Mind', etc...))

1946 - Don Byas Quartet (Billy Taylor, Jean Bouchety, Buford Oliver) record session for Swing

1947 - Dexter Gordon (Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Rowles, Red Callender, Roy Porter) record session for Dial

1948 - Ray Brown (Kai Winding, Allen Eager, Hank Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, etc...) broadcast from the Royal Roost, released on Alto

1952 - Benny Carter (Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, J.C. Heard) record session for Norgran (Cosmopolite)

1954 - Cal Tjader Quartet (Bob Collins, Eddie Duran, Al McKibbon) record session for Fantasy (Cal Tjader Plays Jazz)

1956 (also Dec. 5, 6) - Dinah Washington (Ernie Royal, Charlie Shavers, Joe Wilder, Jimmy Cleveland, Hal McKusick, Lucky Thompson, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Jimmy Crawford, Quincy Jones, etc...) record session for EmArcy (The Swingin' Miss D)

1956 (also Dec. 7) - John Lewis/Sacha Distel (Barney Wilen, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke) record session for Versailles (Afternoon in Paris)

1957 (also Dec. 5) - Gerry Mulligan (Lee Konitz, Allen Eager, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Freddie Green, Henry Grimes, Dave Bailey) record session for World Pacific (The Gerry Mulligan Songbook)

1957 - Miles Davis Quintet (Barney Wilen, René Urtreger, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke) record soundtrack of film 'Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud', released on Fontana

1957 - Terry Gibbs Quartet (Terry Pollard, Leroy Vinnegar, Gary Frommer) record session for Mercury (Terry Gibbs Plays the Duke)

1958 (also Dec. 5) - Ruby Braff and his Shubert Alley Cats (Al Cohn, Hank Jones,J im Hall, George Duvivier, Buzzy Drootin) record session for Warner (Ruby Braff Goes Girl Crazy)

1959 - Shirley Scott Trio (Wendell Marshall, Arthur Edgehill) record session for Prestige (Soul Searchin')

1961 (also April 10) - Junior Cook Quintet (Blue Mitchell, Ronnie Mathews, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks) record session for Jazzland (Junior's Cookin')

1964 (first of several sessions) - Kenny Burrell (Johnny Coles, Jimmy Cleveland Jimmy Cleveland, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Ron Carter, etc...) record sesion for Verve (Guitar Forms)

1967 (first of several sessions) - Miles Davis (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Beck, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) record session for Columbia (Circle In The Round)

1967 - Bobby Timmons (Joe Beck, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Milestone 9011

1970 - Donald Byrd (Frank Foster, Duke Pearson, Ron Carter, Mickey Roker, Airto Moreira, etc...) record session for BN ('Elmina', 'The Loud Minority', etc...)

1978 - Harold Land Quartet (Stanley Cowell, John Heard, Roy Haynes) record session for Galaxy (Five Birds and a Monk)...

then Joe Farrell Quartet (same rhythm section) record session for sthe ame Galaxy album

1979 (also Jan. 4, 1980) - Chet Baker Quintet (Enrico Pieranunzi, Riccardo Del Fra, etc...) record session for Edizione Pan (Soft Journey)

1994 (also Dec. 5) - Johnny Griffin (Kenny Barron, Cecil McBride, Victor Lewis, etc...) record session for Verve (Chicago, New York, Paris)

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December 5:

1928 - Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five (Fred Robinson, Jimmy Strong, Earl Hines, Zutty Singleton, etc...) record session for Okeh ('Save It, Pretty Mama', 'Weatherbird', etc...)

1945 - Bud Freeman's All Star Orchestra (Wild Bill Davison, Peanuts Hucko, Joe Sullivan, Carmen Mastren, Sid Weiss, George Wettling) record session for Keynote

1945 - Erroll Garner solo piano session for Mercury

1946 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Musicraft ('Golden Feather', etc...)

1947 - Fats Navarro (Charlie Rouse, Tadd Dameron, Nelson Boyd, Art Blakey) record session for Savoy

1949 - Flip Phillips (Mickey Crane, Ray Brown, Jo Jones) record session for Clef (Collates #3)

1951 - Stan Kenton and his Orchestra (Maynard Ferguson, Conte Candoli, Bill Russo, John Graas, Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Bob Gioga, Shelly Manne, etc...)record session for Capitol ('Reflections', 'A Horn', etc...)

1953 - Teo Macero (Charles Mingus, Ed Shaughnessy, etc...) record session for Debut (Explorations)

1956 - Kid Ory (Alvin Alcorn, Cedric Heywood, Wellman Braud, Kansas Fields, etc...) concert at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, released on Verve (Kid Ory in Europe)

1957 - Count Basie All Stars (Roy Eldridge, Joe Newman, Vic Dickenson, Dicky Wells, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Jo Jones, Jimmy Rushing, Billie Holiday) rehearsal for the TV show 'The Sound of Jazz', released on Columbia (The Sound of Jazz)

1959 - Sonny Red (Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks) record session for BN (Out of the Blue)

1961 - Hank Mobley (Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) record session for BN (Another Workout)

1962 - Shirley Scott Trio (Earl May, Roy Brooks) record session for Prestige (Happy Talk)

1964 - Shirley Scott (Stanley Turrentine, Bob Cranshaw, Otis Finch) at the Newark Front Room, released on Impulse (Queen of the Organ)

1965 - Kenny Dorham Quintet (Rolf Ericsson,Tete Montoliu, NHOP, Alex Riel) session for SteepleChase (Scandia Skies)

1966 (thru Dec. 7) - Cecil Taylor Unit (Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille) take part in French TV show 'Les Grandes Répétitions', still unissued

1968 (also Dec. 6) - Johnny Hodges (Billy Gardner, Jimmy Ponder, Ron Carter, Freddy Waits) record session for Verve (Rippin' and Runnin')

1978 - James 'Blood' Ulmer Quartet (Ornette Coleman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Denardo Coleman) record session for Artists House (Tales of Captain Black)

1988 (also Dec. 6) - John Lewis (Sacha Lewis, Christian Escoudé, Pierre Michelot, Michel Gaudry, Daniel Humair) record session for EmArcy (Midnight in Paris)

[Bill B]

1979-Bill Evans Trio recorded @ Hans Rossbach's nightclub in Koblenz(incorrectly designated as "Live in Rome" released on West Wind and Gambit.

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December 6:

1936 - Mildred Bailey and her Alley Cats (Bunny Berigan, Johnny Hodges, Teddy Wilson, Grachan Moncur) record session for Decca/Parlophone

1947 - Stan Kenton and his Orchestra (Buddy Childers, Milt Bernhardt, Eddie Bert, Art Pepper, Bob Cooper, Eddie Safranski, Shelly Manne, etc...) record session for Capitol ('The Peanut Vendor 'Cuban Carnival'', etc...)

1953 (also Dec. 7) - Oscar Peterson Trio (Barney Kessel, Ray Brown) record session for Norgran (various albums)

1954 (also Dec. 7) - Buddy de Franco with Russ Garcia Orch. (Harry Betts, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Bobby White, etc...) record session for Norgran (The George Gershwin Songbook)

1954 - Stan Levey (Conte Candoli, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Claude Williamson, Max Bennett) record session for Bethlehem (Stan Levey Plays the Compositions of Bill Holman, Bob Cooper and Jimmy Giuffre)

1955 (also Dec. 9 and 16) - Shorty Rogers (Conte Candoli, Harry Edison, Don Fagerquist, Lou Levy, Ralph Pena, Shelly Manne, etc...) record session for Atlantic (Martians Come Back - Way Up There)

1955 (also Dec. 7, 8) - Anita O'Day with the Buddy Bergman Orch. (Milt Bernhardt, Paul Smith, Barney Kessel, Joe Mondragon, Alvin Stoller, etc...) record session for Norgran (Anita O'Day Sings. Anita)

1956 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia ('Cafe au Lait', 'Star Crossed Lovers', etc...), first released on Up-to-Date

1957 - The Prestige All Stars (Idrees Sulieman, Frank Rehak, Pepper Adams, Bill Evans, Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes) record session for New Jazz (Roots)

1958 - Gene Krupa Quartet (Eddie Wasserman, Ronnie Ball, Jimmy Gannon) record session for Verve

1960 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merritt) concert at the Konserhuset, released on Dragon (Live In Stockholm 1960)

1960 - Johnny Rae (Bobby Jaspar, Steve Kuhn, John Neves, Jake Hanna) record session for Savoy (Opus de Jazz)

1960 - Horace Parlan Quartet (George Tucker, Al Harewood, Ray Barretto) record session for BN (Headin' South)

1960 (also May 23, 1961) - The Latin Jazz Quintet (Bobby Capers, Will Coleman, Bill Ellington, Juan Amalbert, etc...) record session for New Jazz (Latin Soul)

1962 - Michel Legrand and his Orchestra (Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer, Phil Woods, Paul Gonsalves, Tommy Flanagan, Milt Hinton, etc...) record session for Philips (Michel Legrand Plays Richard Rodgers)

1963 - Gil Evans and his Orchestra (Thad Jones, Phil Woods, Kenny Burell, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, etc...) record session for Verve (Gil Evans Orch. Previously unreleased Recordings)

1967 - Billy Hawks (Buddy Terry, Maynard Parker, Henry Terrell) record session for Prestige (More Heavy Soul!)

1978 - Tommy Flanagan and Kenny Barron record duo session for Denon (Together)

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December 7:

1937 - Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France (Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Warlop, Eugène Vées, Louis Vola) record session for Swing

1952 - Harry Babasin Trio (Hampton Hawes, Larry Bunker) record session for Discovery

1954 - King Pleasure (J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Lucky Thompson, Danny Bank, Jimmy Jones, Paul Chambers, Joe Harris) record session for Prestige

1956 (also Dec. 8) - Lester Young with the Bill Potts Trio (Norman Willis, Jim Lutch) at Olivia's Patio Lounge, released on Pablo (Lester Young in D.C.)

1956 - Sonny Rollins (Kenny Drew, George Morrow, Max Roach, Earl Coleman) record session for Prestige (Tour de Force)

1958 - Sonny Clark Trio (Paul Chambers, Wes Landers) record session for BN (Blues In The Night)

1959 (also Dec. 14) - Shelly Manne and His Men (Joe Gordon, Richie Kamuca, Victor Feldman, Russ Freeman, Monty Budwig) record session for Contemporary (The Proper Time)

1963 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) on the 'Jazz Casual' TV show, released on Session and other labels

1964 (also Dec. 8) - McCoy Tyner Trio (Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) record session for Impulse (McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington)

1966 - Duke Pearson (Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Mickey Roker) record session for BN (Sweet Honey Bee)

1991 - Paul Bley Trio (Marc Johnson, Jeff Williams) record session for SteepleChase (Paul Bley Plays Carla Bley)

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December 8:

1928 - Earl Hines records piano solo session for QRS

1932 - Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra (Louis Bacon, Charlie Green, Edgar Sampson, Don Kirkpatrick, Chick Webb, Mezz Mezzrow, etc...) record session for Victor ('That's My Home', 'Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train', etc...)

1947 (also Dec. 9 and 10) - Rex Stewart (Sandy Williams, Don Gais, Ted Curry, etc...) record session for Blue Star

1952 (thru Dec. 13) - Charlie Parker (Joe Gordon, Bill Wellington, Dick Twardzik, Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes) at the Hi-Hat Club in Boston, released on Charlie Parker Records

1953 - Ben Webster (Harry Edison, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Alvin Stoller) record session for Norgran (The Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster)

1955 - Gene Quill (Dick Sherman, Dick Katz, Teddy Kotick, Osie Johnson) record session for Dawn (Jazzville 1956, vol. 1)

1956 - Miles Davis Quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones) at the Blue Note, Philadelphia, released on Teppa and other labels

1956 - Doug Watkins Sextet (Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Duke Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Art Taylor) record session for Transition (Watkins at Large)

1957 - Miles Davis (Barney Wilen, René Urtreger, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke) concert at the Amsterdam Councertgebouw, released on Celluloid (Amsterdam Concert)

1957 - The Sound of Jazz (Cound Basie All Stars, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Giuffre, etc...) appear on the 'Sound of Jazz' TV show, sountrack released on Pumpkin (The Real Sound of Jazz)

1957 - Sonny Clark Quintet (Clifford Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Pete LaRoca) record session for BN (Sonny Clark Quintet)

1959 - Paul Smith Trio (Leroy Vinnegar, Stan Levey) record session for Verve (The Big Men)

1959 - Frank Wess (Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller, Charles Fowlkes, Hank Jones, Eddie Jones, Gus Johnson) record session for Savoy (Opus de Blues)

1960 (also Dec. 16) - Les Spann (Julius Watkins, Tommy Flanagan, Sam Jones, Al Heath) record session for Jazzland (Gemini)

1960 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merrit) in concert at the Theatre de Beaulieu, Lausanne, released on TCB (Lausanne 1960)

1965 (also Jan. 26, Feb. 11 and 16, 1966) - Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Gene Wright, Joe Morello) record session for Columbia (Anything Goes)

1973 (also Dec. 11 and 18) - Lou Donaldson (Joe Venuto, Derek Smith, Richard Davis, etc...) record session for BN (Sophisticated Lou)

1985 - Paul Bley Trio (Jesper Lundgaard, Billy Hart) record session for SteepleChase (My Standard)

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More for December 7:

1926: Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (including Jimmy Dorsey & Eddie Lang) record for Brunswick

1927: McKenzie & Condon's Chicagoans record for Okeh

1943: Sidney Bechet records for V-Disc

1943: Coleman Hawkins records for Signature

1963: Ronnie Scott recorded at Ronnie Scott's, London- one track from When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It To You (Jazz House)

1969: Herbie Hancock- session for Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner Bros)

1972: Miles Davis- 'Billy Preston' from Get Up With It (Columbia)

1996: Jim Hall at the Village Vanguard- final night of recording for Panorama (Telarc)

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December 9:

1928 (also Dec. 12) - Earl Hines records piano solo session for Okeh

1952 (also Dec. 10) - Gene Krupa and his Orchestra (Charlie Shavers, Kai Winding, Lennie Hambro, Johnny Smith, etc...) record session for Clef

1953 - Joe Holiday (Billy Taylor, Earl May, Charlie Smith, Jose Mangual, Ubaldo Nieto, Machito) record session for Prestige (Mambo Jazz)

1953 - Dizzy Gillespie - Stan Getz (Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Max Roach) record session for Norgran (Getz and Diz)

1954 - Jonah Jones Sextet (Vic Dickenson, Edmund Hall, Kenny Kersey, Pops Foster, Osie Johnson) record session for Bethlehem (Jonah Jones Sextet)

1955 (also Dec. 23 and 30) - Billy Byers (Bernie Glow, Urbie Green, Al Cohn, Moe Wechsler, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for Victor (Jazz Workshop)

1957 (also Dec. 2) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Columbia (The Girl's Suite and the Perfume Suite)

1957 - Chet Baker (Jim Buffington, Gene Allen, Russ Saunders, etc...) record session for World Pacific

1959 - Ernie Wilkins (Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Benny Golson, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Jones, Eddie Costa, Eddie Jones, Charles Persip) record session for Everest (Here Comes the Swingin' Mr. Wilkins)

1959 - Frank Strozier (Booker Little, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb) record session for Vee Jay (Fantastic Frank Strozier)

1960 - Kenny Dorham Quintet (Jimmy Heath, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Garrison, Art Taylor) record session for Time (Showboat)

1961 - Billy Byers (Ernie Royal, Joe Newman,Clark Terry, Jimmy Cleveland, Melba Liston, Eric Dixon, Patti Bown, Milt Hinton, etc...) record session for Mercury (Impressions of Duke Ellington)

1961 - Ike Quebec (Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton, Al Harewood) record session for BN (It Might As Well Be Spring)

1963 - Milt Jackson Quintet (Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones, Bob Cranshaw, Al Heath) at the Village Gate, released on Riverside (Milt Jackson Live at the Village Gate)

1963 (see also Nov. 29) - Freddie Roach (Blue Mitchell, Hank Mobley, Eddie Wright, Clarence Johnston) record session for BN (Good Move)

1964 - John Coltrane Quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) record session for Impulse (A Love Supreme)

1964 (also Dec. 14) - Milt Jackson Jimmy Heath, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Connie Kay) record session for Limelight (In a New Setting)

1968 - Kenny Cox (Charles Moore, Leon Henderson, Ron Brooks, Danny Spencer) record session for BN (Introducing Kenny Cox)

1975 - Sam Rivers (Ted Dunbar, Dave Holland, Barry Altshul, Warren Smith) record session for Impulse (Sizzle)

1981 (thru Dec. 15) - Sonny Rollins (Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Broom, Bob Cranshaw, Tony Williams) record session for Milestone (No Problem)

1983 - Mal Waldron Trio (Reggie Workman, Ed Blackwell) record session for PaddleWheel (You and the Night and the Music)

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December 10:

1929 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (The Jungle Band) record session for Brunswick ('Wall Street Wail', 'Sweet Mama', etc...)

1930 - Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra record session for Victor ('Mood Indigo', 'What Good Am I Without You?', etc...)

1945 - Bud Freeman (Charlie Shavers, Vernon Brown, Edmund Hall, Gene Schroeder, John Simmons, Dave Tough) record session for Keynote

1945 (also Dec. 13) - Dinah Washington with Lucky Thompson's All Stars (Karl George, Milt Jackson, Wilbert Baranco, Charles Mingus, Lee Young, etc...) record session for Apollo

1947 - Gene Ammons (Gail Brockman, Junior Mance, Gene Wrtight, etc...) record session for Mercury

1947 - Rex Stewart (Hubart Rostaing, Django Reinhardt, Ladislas Czabanyck, Ted Curry) record session for Blue Star

1948 - Hal Singer (Chippy Outcalt, George Rhodes, Walter Page, Bobby Donaldson, etc...) record session for Savoy

1948 - Billie Holiday (Bobby Tucker, Mundell Lowe, John Levy, Denzil Best, etc...) record session for Decca ('Weep No More', 'My Man', etc...)

1948 - Tony Fruscella Quintet (Chick Maures, Bill Triglia, Red Mitchell, Dave Troy) record session for Century

1950 - Stan Getz Quartet (Horace Silver, Joe Calloway, Walter Bolden) record session for Roost (The Sound)

1951 (first of several sessions) - Eddie Condon (Wild Bill Davison, Cutty Cutshal, Edmund Hall, Gene Schroeder, Bob Casey, Buzzy Drootin) at Eddie Condon's, released on Savoy (Ringside at Eddie Condon's)

1952 (also Nov. 2) - Billy Taylor Trio (Earl May, Charlie Smith) record session for Prestige (Billy Taylor Trio, vol. 2)

1954 - Lester Young Quintet (Jessie Drakes, Gildo Mahones, John Ore, Connie Kay) record session for Norgran (It Don't Mean a Thing)

1954 - Charlie Parker Quintet (Walter Bishop, Billy Bauer, Teddy Kotick, Art Taylor) record session for Verve (Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter)

1956 (final session) - Lennie Niehaus Octet (Frank Rosolino, Bill Perkins, Pepper Adams, Red Michell, Mel Lewis, etc...) record session for Contemporary (Zounds)

1959 (also Jan. 19, 1960) - Ray Bryant Trio (Tommy Bryant, Oliver Jackson) record session for Columbia (Little Susie)

1959 - Jimmy Forrest (Harold Mabern, Grant Green, Gene Ramey, Elvin Jones) record session for Delmark (All the Gin Is Gone - Black Forrest)

1962 - Ted Curson (Gildo Mahones, George Tucker, Roy Haynes, Montego Joe) record session for Prestige (Fire Down Below)

1962 (also Dec. 11) - The Bossa Rio Sextet with Cannonball Adderley ( Paulo Moura, Sergio Mendes, Dom Um Romao, etc...) record session for Riverside (Cannonball's Bossa Nova)

1978 - Martial Solo piano session for PolJazz

1986 (also Dec. 11, 12) - Stanley Turrentine (Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Foster, Abraham Laboriel, etc...) record session for BN (Wonderland)

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December 11:

1928 (also Dec. 12) - Lillie Delk Christian with Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four (Jimmie Noone, Earl Hines, Mancy Carr) record session for Okeh

1943 - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall, released on Ember

1944 - Art Hodes Blue Five (Max Kaminsky, Mezz Mezzrow, Pops Foster, Danny Alvin) record session for BN

1944 (also Dec. 12) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record session for Victor (Black, Brown and Beige)

1946 (also Dec. 12) - Herbie Fields (Jimmy Maxwell, Al Klink, Serge Chaloff, Marty Napoleon, Tiny Kahn, etc...) record session for Victor

1946 - Gene Sedric (Lincoln Mills, Al Casey, Slick Jones, etc...) record session for Keynote

1947 - Coleman Hawkins and his All Stars (Fats Navarro, J.J. Johnson, Budd Johnson, Marion Di Vita, Hank Jones, Chuck Wayne, Jack Lesberg, Max Roach) record session for Victor

1947 - Dexter Gordon (Leo Parker, Tadd Dameron, Curley Russell, Art Blakey) record session for Savoy

1948 (also Dec. 12) - Charlie Parker Quintet (Miles Davis, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach) at the Royal Roost, released on Savoy

1949 - Sonny Stitt (Bud Powell, Curley Russell, Max Roach) record session for Prestige

1952 - Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra (Emmett Berry, Lawrence Brown, Ben Webster, Ted Brannon etc...) record session for Clef

1953 - Illinois Jacquet (Russell Jacquet, Matthew Gee, Cecil Payne, John Acea, Al Lucas, Shadow Wilson) record session for Clef

1956 (also Dec. 13 and 14) - Tony Scott (John Carisi, Clark Terry, Thad Jones, Henry Coker Gigi Gryce, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, Freddie Green, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, etc...) record session for RCA Victor (The Complete Tony Scott)

1956 - Bill Perkins and Art Pepper (Jimmy Rowles, Ben Tucker, Mel Lewis) record session for Pacific Jazz (Just Friends)

1959 - Red Garland and his Trio and Eddie Davis (Sam Jones, Art Taylor) record session for Moodsville (Red Garland Trio + Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis)

1961 - Donald Byrd (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins) record session for BN (Free Form)

1961 (also Dec. 12) - Johnny Hodges (Cat Anderson, Harold Baker, Lawrence Brown, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, Jimmy Jones, Aaron Bell, Sam Woodyard, Strayhorn, etc...) record session for Verve (Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and his Orchestra)

1962 (also Dec. 12) - Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Crow, Gus Johnson) record session for Philips (Spring Is Sprung)

1963 - Martial Solal Trio (Guy Pedersen, Daniel Humair) concert at Salle Gaveau, released on French Columbia (Concert à Gaveau)

1964 - Sam Rivers (Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) record session for BN (Fuchsia Swing song)

1967 (also Dec. 12) - Frank Sinatra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra record session for Reprise (Francis A. and Edward K.)