The Complete Billie Holiday with the Ellingtonians (1935-37)
Billie Holiday – voc
with:
Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Barney Bigard, Gene Krupa, Jonah Jones, Ben Webster, Cozy Cole, Buster Bailey, Lester Young, J. C. Higginbotham, Albert Nicholas, George “Pops” Foster, and many more
Rec. 1935 – 1937
JATP in Tokyo 1953
1953 JATP (Jazz At The Philharmonics) Tokyo Session with:
Roy Eldridge – tr
Ben Webster – sax
Flip Phillips – sax
Benny Carter – sax
Oscar Peterson – p
Ray Brown – b
J. C. Heard – dr
Herb Ellis – guit
Gene Krupa – dr
Ella Fitzgerald – voc
Charlie Shavers – tr
and many more
Charlie Parker Jam Session (1952)
Charlie Parker – sax
Charlie Shavers – tp
Benny Carter – sax
Johnny Hodges – sax
Flip Phillips – sax
Ben Webster – sax
Oscar Peterson – p
Barney Kessel – git
Ray Brown – b
J. C. Heard – dr
Rec. in Los Angeles, July 1952
Pete Johnson – Pete’s Blues (House Rent Party) 1946
Pete Johnson – p
with:
(Track 1-8)
Al Hall – b
Albert Nicholas – cl
Oran “Hot Lips” Page – tr
J. C. Heard – dr
Jimmy Shirley – git
Ben Webster – sax
J. C. Higginbotham – trombone
Recorded at 26 Jan 1946
(Tracks 9-13)
Clyde Bernhardt – trombone
Don Stovall – sax
Abe Bolar – b
Oran “Hot Lips” Page – tr
Budd Johnson – sax
Jimmy Shirley – dr
Jack Parker – dr
Etta Jones – voc
Recorded at 2 Jan 1946
The so-called “House Rent Party”- session is the first “interactive” Jazz record. It begins with Pete Johnson, all alone playing piano, then the drummer gets by (track 2), then, one by one, all the other musicians, featuring the great Ben Webster and Oran “Hot Lips” Page. Nah, isn’t that nice…..
