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ESP 3000 Charlie Parker / Live Performances

Track 1:
Dizzy Gillespie (tp) John LaPorta (cl) Charlie Parker (as) Lennie Tristano (p) Billy Bauer (g) Ray Brown (b) Max Roach (d)
WOR radio broadcast, NYC, September 20, 1947

Tracks 2-5:
Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
"Royal Roost", NYC, December 11, 1948

Track 6-8:
Kenny Dorham (tp) replaces Davis
"Royal Roost", NYC, December 25, 1948

1. Tiger Rag
2. Groovin' High
3. Big Foot
4. Ornithology (Thriving On From A Riff)
5. On A Slow Boat To China
6. Half Nelson
7. White Christmas
8. Little Willie Leaps

ESP 3001 Charlie Parker / Broadcast Performances, Vol. 2

Track 1 & 2:
Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
"Royal Roost", NYC, September 4, 1948

Tracks 2-8:
Kenny Dorham (tp) replaces Davis
"Royal Roost", NYC, January 1, 1949

1. 52nd Street Theme
2. Ko-Ko
3. Be-Bop
4. On A Slow Boat To China
5. Ornithology
6. Groovin' High
7. East Of The Sun
8. Cheryl

ESP 3002 Billie Holiday - Broadcast Performances, Vol. 1: Radio And TV Broadcasts (1949-52)

Tracks 1 & 2:
Neal Hefti (tp) Herbie Harper (tb) Herbie Steward (cl, ts) Jimmy Rowles (p) Robert "Iggy" Shevak (b) Blinkie Garner (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
AFRS radio broadcast, "Just Jazz", Los Angeles, CA, June, 1949

Tracks 3 & 4:
Hot Lips Page (tp) Horace Henderson (p) Jack Lesberg (b) George Wettling (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
NBC television broadcast, "Eddie Condon Floor Show", NYC, August 27, 1949

Tracks 5 & 6:
Hot Lips Page (tp) Horace Henderson (p) unknown (g) unknown (b) unknown (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
Television broadcast, "Art Ford Television Show", NYC, August 27, 1949

Track 7:
Billie Holiday (vo) The Apollo House Band
broadcast, "Apollo Theater", Harlem, NY, May 24, 1950

Tracks 8-10:
Buster Harding (p) John Field (b) Marquis Foster (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
broadcast, "Storyville Club", Boston, MA, October 29, 30 & 31, 1951

Track 11:
Billie Holiday (vo) unidentified small combo
radio broadcast, "Apollo Theater", Harlem, NY, possibly July, 1952

Track 12:
Tony Scott (cl) Buster Harding (p, cond) Billie Holiday (vo) and others
broadcast, "Apollo Theater", Harlem, NY, December 10, 1952

1. My Man
2. Miss Brown To You
3. Keeps On A-Rainin'
4. Lover Man
5. I Cover The Waterfront
6. All Of Me
7. You're My Thrill
8. He's Funny That Way
9. Billie's Blues
10. Miss Brown To You
11. My Man
12. Tenderly

ESP 3003 Billie Holiday / Broadcast Performances, Vol. 2: Radio And TV Broadcasts (1953-56)

Tracks 1-4:
Jimmy Hamilton (cl) Ray Nance (vln) Buster Harding (p) John Field (b) Marquis Foster (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
broadcast, "Carnegie Hall", NYC, November 14, 1952

Track 5:
unknown (tp) probably Carl Drinkard (p) Jimmy Raney (g) unknown (b) unknown (d) unknown (actors) Billie Holiday (vo, speech) Louis Armstrong, Tallulah Bankhead, Mae Barnes, Leonard Feather, Arthur Herzog, "Pods" Hollingsworth, Artie Shaw (speech) George Jessel (host, nar)
television broadcast, "The Comeback Story", NYC, October 16, 1953

Tracks 6-8:
unknown (tp) probably Carl Drinkard (p) unknown (b) unknown (d) Billie Holiday (vo) Steve Allen (ann) Skitch Henderson (dir) and others
television broadcast, "The Steve Allen Tonight Show", NYC, February 8 or 14, 1955

Track 9:
Buck Clayton (tp) Lester Young (ts) Bobby Tucker (p) Count Basie (org) Eddie Jones (b) Buddy Rich (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
broadcast, "Carnegie Hall", NYC, May 6, 1955

Track 10-13:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) unknown (b) unknown (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
radio broadcast, "Band Stand U.S.A.", Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ, August 29, 1956

My Man
1. I Cover The Waterfront
2. Lover, Come Back To Me
3. My Man (All Of Me)
4. Fine And Mellow (Billie's Blues)
5. God Bless The Child
6. Them There Eyes
7. Lover Man
8. Stormy Weather
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. I Only Have Eyes For You
11. My Man
12. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

ESP 3004 Tony Snell / Medieval And Latter Day Lays

ESP 3005 Billie Holiday - Broadcast Performances, Vol. 3: Radio And TV Broadcasts (1956-58)

Tracks 1 & 2:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) Billie Holiday (vo) Steve Allen (ann) Skitch Henderson (dir) unidentified studio house band, and others
television broadcast, "The Steve Allen Tonight Show", NYC, February 10, 1956

Tracks 3-6:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) unknown (b) Eddie Phyfe (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
radio broadcast, Olivia Davis' "Patio Lounge", Washington DC, October 27, 1956

Track 7:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) Billie Holiday (vo) Skitch Henderson (dir) unidentified studio house band, including strings
television broadcast, "The Steve Allen Tonight Show", NYC, November 8, 1956

Track 8:
Doc Cheatham, Roy Eldridge (tp) Vic Dickenson (tb) Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young (ts) Gerry Mulligan (bars) Mal Waldron (p) Danny Barker (g) Milt Hinton (b) Osie Johnson (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
CBS TV program, CBS Studio 58, NYC, December 8, 1957

Tracks 9-11:
Buck Clayton (tp) Tyree Glenn (tb) Georgie Auld (ts) Mal Waldron (p) Mary Osborne (g) Vinnie Burke (b) Osie Johnson (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
television broadcast, "Art Ford's Jazz Party", Channel 13, NYC, July 10, 1958

Tracks 12-14:
add Charlie Shavers (tp) Harry Sheppard (vib)
television broadcast, "Art Ford's Jazz Party", Channel 13, NYC, July 17, 1958
1. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
2. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
3. Nice Work If You Can Get It
4. God Bless The Child
5. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
6. Don't Explain
7. Porgy
8. Fine And Mellow
9. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
10. Foolin' Myself
11. Easy To Remember
12. Moanin' Low
13. Don't Explain
14. When Your Lover Has Gone

ESP 3006 Billie Holiday / Broadcast Performances, Vol. 4: TV Broadcasts

Jimmy Rowles (p)
Artie Shapiro (b)
Billie Holiday (vo)

Prelude To A Kiss
1. Farewell To Storyville
2. The Man I Love
3. Lover Man
4. God Bless The Child
5. Billie's Blues
6. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
7. Just Fooling Myself
8. You Better Go Now
9. Them There Eyes
10. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
11. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (rehearsal)
12. Talk About Early Career
13. Just Friends
14. Talk
15. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
16. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
17. Everything Happens To Me
18. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
19. I Don't Want To Cry Anymore
20. Jeepers Creepers

Including studio rehearsal by Carnegie Hall concert, 1958

ESP 3007 Revolutionary Ensemble

Leroy Jenkins (vln, vla)
Sirone (b, cello)
Jerome Cooper (per)

1. Vietnam 1
2. Vietnam 2

NYC, March, 1972

ESP 3008 Jim McCarthy / Alien

Jonathan Thayer (ob)
George Cameron (hca)
Julie Case (p)
Bob Claster (p, org)
Bill Johnson, Bob Miles (org)
Steve Martin (ac-g, harmony vo)
Jim McCarthy (rhythm ac-g, hca, vo)
Bob Gallagher (el-g)
Leslie Fradkin (b)
Tom Hayes (d)
Paul Thornton (maracas)

1. Guide Me To Your Love
2. In The Search Of An Audience
3. Word Of Honour
4. We Love You
5. Song For All Seasons
6. Sickness Or Cure
7. So Beautiful
8. Girly Pearl
9. Seething With Tears

1973

* also issued on ESP 3008 entitled "The Godz - Alien":

ESP 3009 The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band / Smoke Dreams

Jonathan Thayer (ob)
George Cameron (hca)
Julie Case (p)
Bob Claster (p, org)
Bill Johnson, Bob Miles (org)
Steve Martin (ac-g, harmony vo)
Jim McCarthy (rhythm ac-g, hca, vo)
Bob Gallagher (el-g)
Leslie Fradkin (b)
Tom Hayes (d)
Paul Thornton (maracas)

1. Guide Me To Your Love
2. In The Search Of An Audience
3. Word Of Honour
4. We Love You
5. Song For All Seasons
6. Sickness Or Cure
7. So Beautiful
8. Girly Pearl
9. Seething With Tears

1973

* also issued on ESP 3008 entitled "The Godz - Alien":

ESP 3010 Tiger Tiger / Sun Country
1. Dog Legs
2. Why Do They Do That?
3. My Heart Is With Nature
4. Hi Ya No Me
5. Red Man
6. Thank You Ancestors
7. Love Me Baby
8. Take My Lovin'
9. Peace of Mind
10. We Can't Explain
11. Everyday
12. It's Time