Jazz Alive sessionography

[damonshort]

Anyone know if there a listing w/ personnel, dates, etc. of all those broadcasts from the 70s/80s? I know there were well over a hundred of them. Wonder if there's still anyone at NPR who had anything to with the production.

[Ken Dryden]

Ask Zev Feldman, he might have been given a list to review. Resonance issued a Jazz Alive! show featuring Sarah Vaughan in New Orleans at Rosy's, including extra material that was not aired. I recorded a few of them in the late 1970s but it aired on a night in my city that frequently conflicted with my work schedule.

 

One thing that frustrated me is when Concord issued the Jazz Alive! broadcast which featured Mel Torme, George Shearing and Gerry Mulligan, they omitted all three of Mulligan's big band instrumentals. Fortunately I recorded the full broadcast and I knew the music well long before I was assigned to write liner notes years later. I think some of the Jazz Alive! broadcasts may be on Concert Vault.