Bootleg question: Billie's Bounce at the Half Note

[Mark Stryker]

Gang -- I'm trying to help a young friend identify a tape he heard in class. He was told it was broadcast recording from the Half Note in the late '50s. (The teacher, apparently, to be a dick, would not tell the kids who it was and made a big deal about the fact that it was a private tape in his collection.) It was apparently a tenor-trumpet quintet and the tune was Billie's Bounce in G-flat -- probably because the tape was running fast, but since I haven't heard it, I really don't know any more.  

Does anybody know what exactly this might be or can anyone think of something in the ballpark? 

Thanks in advance. 

Edited February 9, 2022 by Mark Stryker

[Chuck Nessa]

Good luck with that one.

[John L]

The only thing in my collection that comes close would be a broadcast from the Half Note from July 1958 where Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh play Billie's Bounce.  But there was no trumpet present,. 

[mhatta]

I guess Billie's Bounce was played quite often during this period, and tenor/trumpet quintets were also quite common, so I have no clue.

If the information about the venue is correct, it might be from WABC "Portraits In Jazz" radio broadcasts hosted by Alan Grant.  I have also no clue the whereabout of his acetates he made during this period.

[jk666]

11 hours ago, mhatta said:

I guess Billie's Bounce was played quite often during this period, and tenor/trumpet quintets were also quite common, so I have no clue.

If the information about the venue is correct, it might be from WABC "Portraits In Jazz" radio broadcasts hosted by Alan Grant.  I have also no clue the whereabout of his acetates he made during this period.

Coltrane's One Up/One Down was one of these broadcasts, so it's possible that someone recorded this from a radio broadcast.

On a personal note I was 'at the Half Note' on the morning of 9/11 when the first plane hit the WTC. My office was across the street and I was in the deli where the Half Note used to be getting coffee.