Session details: Carnegie Hall (May 5, 1947)

Charlie Parker session details

May 5, 1947 (3 items; TT = 11:51)

Carnegie Hall, New York NY

Unknown radio broadcast (B)

Show chatter

Charlie Parker (as); Roy Eldridge (tpt); Coleman Hawkins (ts); Hank Jones (p); Eddie Safranski (b); Buddy Rich (d); Al Anderson (ann)

1	Introduction (Al Anderson)	0:38
	"Good evening, everyone, your city station is broadcasting tonight from Carnegie Hall, presenting Norman Granz and Jazz at the Philharmonic, the modern jazz section of the Carnegie Pops series. This is Al Anderson from the broadcasting booth at Carnegie Hall. We're not gonna do very much talking, we'd like to get you downstage where you can hear some of this great modern jazz. Now this set, it's Buddy Rich on drums; Eddie Safranski, bass; Hank Jones, piano; Coleman Hawkins on tenor; Roy Eldridge, trumpet; and Charlie Parker, the Bird himself, on alto sax -- right now blasting away on some bebop improvising, 'Lover Come Back to Me'. Here is Jazz at the Philharmonic..."
2	Lover Come Back to Me [Bean and the Boys] (S. Romberg-O. Hammerstein)	0:48
	No Parker solo
3	Stuffy (C. Hawkins)	10:25
	Incomplete (ca. 7:50) on Bird Box, Philology, and Definitive


1 Introduction (Al Anderson) CD: Philology Volume 9 (W 120), Definitive Records DRCD 11375
2 Lover Come Back to Me CD: Philology Volume 9 (W 120), Definitive Records DRCD 11375
3 Stuffy 12" LP: Bird Box 01-22 LP 3 CD: New Sound Planet JUTB 3002, Sound Hills SSCD 8018, Philology Volume 7 (W 57), Definitive Records DRCD 11375

The solos on "Stuffy," in order: Hawkins (0:47-2:27), Eldridge (2:27-3:41, cut off), Parker (3:41-5:24), Jones (5:25-6:24), Safranski (6:25-7:37), Rich (7:37-9:33). The version issued on Bird Box, etc. ends abruptly at the end of Safranski's solo. There's a lot of commotion in the audience during the piano solo. Evidently this was elicited by Gjon Mili's attempts to document the proceedings. A very negative Down Beat review of this concert (May 21) notes, "Principal reason was one of those nights when a lot of good musicians simply aren't playing up to their names. Secondary were Life photographer Gjon Mili, Carnegie Hall acoustics and the audience... Mili, a friend of Granz', was there to take pictures. In his bumblings about the stage and flashings of pre-set lights, he not only disturbed the musicians, but gave the raucous section of the crowd a focal point for its bellicoseness. Result at the first intermission was a mass uproar which forced Mili to slacken his activities" (p. 6)

This material is usually listed as from June 19, 1949, but the correct date is May 5, 1947. Thanks to Lief Bo Petersen and James Accardi for help with this session, and to Wasaburo Miura for the complete version of "Stuffy."