This is a broadcast recording from the
Festival International 1949 de Jazz.
The festival included many traditional acts from the United States -- Sidney Bechet,
Russell Moore, Oran "Hot Lips" Paige -- but it also introduced bebop groups like
the Charlie Parker Quintet and the Davis-Dameron quintet. Also on the bill were
musicians from England (Vic Lewis' big band), Belgium (Toots Thielemans Trio),
Switzerland (Hazy Osterwald's quintet), Italy (Armando Trovajoli), and of course
many from France (including Aimé Barelli, Hubert Rostang, the Django Reinhardt
Quintet).
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[Jazz Hot Nr. 22 (Mai 1949)]
The Davis-Dameron Quintet were in Paris for eight days (May 8-15). During this period
they performed at the Salle Pleyel on the 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th (two concerts), 14th,
and 15th (two concerts). In addition, according to André Hodeir -- "Le Festival
1949" in
Jazz Hot
No. 34 (Juin 1949), pp. 7-10 -- the group played at the Lyon Opera on May 11
and the Alhambra in Bordeaux on May 13.
There are two different versions of this blues:
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"Farewell Blues" (Philology Vol. 12, etc.)
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0:00 - 0:29 Byas (ts) (inc)
0:29 - 1:37 Coleman/Page (tpt)
1:37 - 2:30 Bechet (ss)
2:30 - 3:03 Davis (tpt)
3:03 - 3:46 Parker (as) + ensemble (cut off mid-Parker solo)
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"Blues Final" (Vogue Disque YX-0001)
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0:00 - 0:26 Byas (ts) (inc)
0:26 - 1:37 Coleman/Page (tpt)
1:37 - 2:32 Bechet (ss)
2:32 - 3:06 Davis (tpt)
3:06 - 4:00 Parker (as) + ensemble
4:00 - 4:49 ensemble
4:49 - 4:54 applause
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Thanks to Hideki Murayama for supplying me with a copy of the Vogue Disque LP, and
to Pascal Garnier for sharing the Juin 1949 issue of Jazz Hot.
Sometime in late June, Davis -- "the youthful trumpet star" -- performed "the first
'bop' concert ever presented at Princeton University" (reported in the July 2
edition of The Michigan Chronicle, p. 20).
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