This is from the Mutual Network's Bandstand USA, which was broadcast live
on Saturday nights beginning in 1956. Guy Wallace gives the opening announcement.
Thanks to Walt Kraemer and Bill Mayhew for identifying Steve Hamber; he was apparently
on the staff of the Mutual Network and despite a lack of interest in jazz was conscripted
for this broadcast from the Spotlite Lounge.
The Sextet played at the Spotlite Lounge from October 29-November 2 (Wednesday-Sunday).
Immediately after this engagement, they were booked for two weeks at the Village
Vanguard, New York (November 4-16), and they played Town Hall, New York (Friday,
November 28, 8:00 and 11:00 pm); Mosque Theatre, Newark NJ (November 29); Howard
Theatre, Washington DC (December 12-18); Town Hall, New York (Saturday, December
27, 8:30 and 11:00 pm).--
Jazzband EB-418 (= EBCD-2101) includes a long version of "What is This Thing Called
Love?" from an Art Ford Jazz Party session recorded on November 20, 1958.
The group does not include Davis or any of the Sextet: the personnel is Art Farmer
(tpt); Jimmy Cleveland (tb); Gigi Gryce (as); Gerry Mulligan (bs); Kenny Burrell
(g); Jimmy Jones (p); Bill Crow (b); Dave Barclay (d); and Candido (cga). In his
closing announcement Ford mentions an upcoming Art Ford Jazz Party concert
at the Mosque Theatre on Saturday November 29: "This is Art Ford, this has been
Jazz Party. Our discovery, Barry Miles, who started on Jazz Party,
as well as Cannonball Adderley, Red Garland, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, and Chris
Nairobi (?), will be at the big jazz concert at the Mosque Theatre in Newark on
November 29th. November 29th at the Mosque Theatre in Newark... Wait, Jazz Party...
Till next week at our new time -- eight to nine-thirty, eight to nine-thirty, tell
your friends -- this is Art Ford saying for Gerry Mulligan, Candido, and all the
gang, so long from Jazz Party..."
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