Temple Label

[jazztrain]

A few days ago, Sidewinder asked (in another thread):  

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'Bebop Highlights' (Temple M-555). Parker/Gillespie/Powell air-check jam from circa 1951. Anyone know anything about this 'Temple' label and where it came from?

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I thought this belonged in the Discography forum.

Information available on line is inconclusive.  There are references to it being a UK label, a Danish label, or perhaps a Boris Rose label.  My best guess is that it was a Danish label.  It seems to be unrelated to the 78 rpm reissue label of the same name.

 

Here's a summary of the issues that I could find:

Temple M-550:  Duke Ellington And His Orchestra 1940-1941

 

Temple M-551:  Ellington at Fargo, Vol. 1

 

Temple M-552:  Ellington at Fargo, Vol. 2

 

Temple M-553:  Count Basie at the Savoy Ballroom, 1937

I can't find a picture of this issue on line.

 

Temple M-554:  Duke Ellington And His Orchestra 1941-1943

 

Temple M-555:  Bebop Highlights

 

[Big Beat Steve]

I would have guessed this to be a Boris Rose label too. Maybe European-pressed, but Boris Rose source material. The covers look familiar to others in that vein, e.g. CARACOL.

[sidewinder]

Some similarities with the Danish Debut labelling..

Edited May 11, 2016 by sidewinder

[JSngry]

What's the earliest documented  recording date for known Bois Rose material?