Live Albums Recorded In The 1940s
Louis Armstrong The Complete Town Hall Concert 1947
Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts January 1943
Duke Ellington Live At Carnegie Hall Dec 11 1943
Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Town Hall New York City June 22 1945
Billie Holiday Jazz at the Philharmonic The Billie Holiday Story vol 1 1945 to 1958
Billie Holiday Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957
Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic 1946
Charlie Parker Complete Live Performances on Savoy September 29 1947 to October 25 1950
Charlie Parker Best of the Complete Live Performances on Savoy 1948 1949
Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie Diz N Bird at Carnegie Hall 1947
Sarah Vaughan The Town Hall Concert 1947
Various Artists The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve 1944-1949
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Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Billie Holiday Story vol 1 is a collection of live recordings by Billie Holiday.
Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic was originally issued in 1954 collecting together eight songs from 1945 and 1946. Since then it has been massively extended to include 30 tracks going all the way through to 1958.
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Live At Carnegie Hall Dec 11 1943 is a live album by Duke Ellington recorded at his regular 1940s venue in New York City.
This is not to be confused with the album The Carnegie Hall Concerts which was recorded in January 1943.
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Best of the Complete Live Performances on Savoy is a collection of live recordings by Charlie Parker.
This brings together performances dating from September 4, 1948 to March 5, 1949 with a variety of backing bands with musicians including:
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The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve 1944-1949 is an extraordinary collection of jazz superstars performing live in the era where swing gave way to bebop.
Overall there are 10 CDs in this boxset, which, to be honest, is an overwhelming quantity to consider in its entirety.
The philosophy of the JATP was to put together unusual combinations of musicians and see what happens.
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Town Hall, New York City June 22 1945 is a live recording of the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet featuring Charlie Parker.
Incredibly this album had to wait sixty years before it was released in June 2005.
It also features Don Byas (saxophone), Al Haig (piano), Curley Russell (bass) and Max Roach (drums).
This is a historic time. The Second World War in Europe had come to an end in May 1945 although it continued in the Pacific until September.
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Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949 is a live recording of Charlie Parker performing at the Carnegie Hall in New York in September 1949.
This is the usual loose jam session mixing bop and swing musicians. Joining Parker are trumpeter Roy Eldridge and tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Other horn players include tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips and trombonist Tommy Turk. The rhythm section is pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ray Brown and Buddy Rich on drums.
Ella Fitzgerald adds vocals to some of the tracks.
There is a very similar titled album from 1946, Charlie Parker Jazz At The Philharmonic 1946 which also features Lester Young.
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One Night Stand – The Town Hall Concert 1947 is a live album by Sarah Vaughan and Lester Young.
It was recorded at The Town Hall in New York City on November 8, 1947.
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