Session details: Apollo Theater (December 1952)

Charlie Parker session details

December 1952 (4 items; TT = 2:52)

Apollo Theater, New York NY

Unknown radio broadcast (B-)

Show chatter

Charlie Parker (as); J.B. "Dizzy" Gillespie (tpt); Billie Holiday (voc); Buster Harding Orchestra (personnel unknown); Unknown (ann)

1	Mop Mop (theme) (C. Hawkins)	0:15
	"Ah, she's walking out. Man, you look so lovely! Yes indeed, ha-ha, it's Lady Day!"
2	Introduction (Billie Holiday and unknown MC)	0:17
	Unkn: "Very good to see you, and you sure look pretty. Ah, you wanna tell 'em what you're gonna do tonight?" BH: "Yeah, I'm gonna try and do a recording I just made for Norman Granz, Mercury -- 'Tenderly'..." Unkn: "'Tenderly'..."
3	Tenderly (W. Gross-J. Lawrence)	2:16
	Add Billie Holiday (voc)
4	Announcement	0:04
	"And that was the great Billie Holiday and 'Tenderly'..."


1 Mop Mop (theme) 12" LP: ESP 3002 CD: Philology Volume 8 (W 80), Rare Live Recordings RLR 88669
2 Introduction (Billie Holiday and unknown MC) CD: Philology Volume 8 (W 80), Rare Live Recordings RLR 88669
3 Tenderly CD: Philology Volume 8 (W 80), Rare Live Recordings RLR 88669
4 Announcement CD: Philology Volume 8 (W 80), Rare Live Recordings RLR 88669

There is almost certainly no Parker on these titles. The closing theme of "Mop Mop," which may or may not include Parker and Gillespie, clearly does not belong here. Brian Priestley (Chasin' the Bird, p. 185) suggests that it may be from the November 14 concerts at Carnegie Hall.

According to Ken Vail (Lady Day's Diary, p. 149, this broadcast of Billie Holiday, with Tony Scott (cl) and Buster Harding (p), also included "My Man." This performance of "Tenderly" is included on ESP's Billie Holiday Broadcast Performances, Vol. 1 (ESP 3002), where the date is given as December 10.