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The recordings heard on this podcast episode:
Concerto for Cootie (CD: Benny Goodman and Sid Catlett “Roll ’em!,” Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1032)
Recorded 1941
Cootie Williams,
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (CD: “The Jubilee Shows – No. 77 and No. 78,” The Jubilee Shows 501 1004)
Recorded 1 May 1944, Hollywood
Ella Fitzgerald – vocal; Cootie Williams, Ermit V. Perry, George Treadwell, Harold “Money” Johnson – trumpet; Ed Burke or George Stevenson, Robert Horton – trombone; Charlie Holmes, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson – alto sax; Sam “The Man” Taylor, Lee Pope – tenor sax; Bud Powell – piano; Norman Keenan – bass; Sylvester “Vess” Payne – drums.
Mood Indigo/Perdido (CD: “Cootie + Un Concert A Minuit Avec Cootie Williams” Master Jazz Records – 8892853)
Recorded 31 January 1959, Paris (Mood Indigo)
Recorded 11 February 1959, Paris (Perdido)
Cootie Williams, Nelson “Cadillac” Williams (Perdido only) – trumpet; George Clark – tenor sax; Arnold Jarvis – piano, organ; Larry Dale – guitar; Guy Perderson (Perdido only) – bass; Lester Jenkins – drums.
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)/It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)/Drop Me Off in Harlem (CD: “Do Nothing Till You Hear From . . . Cootie” Collectables – COL-CD-6121”)
Recorded 1960?
Cootie Williams – trumpet, vocal; unidentified vibraphone, baritone sax, guitar, piano, bass, drums.
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (LP: “Cootie and Rex – The Big Challenge” Hall of Fame Jazz Greats JG-602)
Recorded 30 April 1957, New York City
Cootie Williams – trumpet; Rex Stewart – cornet; Lawrence Brown, J.C. Higginbotham – trombone; Coleman Hawkins, Bud Freeman – tenor sax; Hank Jones – piano; Billy Bauer – guitar; Milt Hinton – bass; Gus Johnson – drums.
— Our closing music—-
It’s Something You Ought To Know (Paul Gonsalves – “Ellingtonia Moods and Blues,” RCA Victor / RCA63562)
Recorded 29 February 1960, New York City
Paul Gonsalves- tenor sax; Johnny Hodges – alto sax; Ray Nance – cornet; Mitchell “Booty” Wood – trombone; Jimmy Jones – piano; Al Hall – bass; Oliver Jackson – drums.
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Season’s Greetings! (Podcast #17-017)
The Cinematic Ellington (Podcast #17-016)
The River (Podcast #17-015)
Reflections from the Avant Garde (Podcast #17-014)
Ellington & 100 years of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie (Podcast #17-013)
Portrait of Barney Bigard (Podcast #17-012)
When Cootie Left the Duke, Pt. III (Podcast #17-011)
When Cootie Left the Duke, Pt. II (Podcast #17-010)
When Cootie Left the Duke, Pt. I (Podcast #17-009)
Piano in the Foreground (Podcast #17-008)
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“Take A Train” (Podcast #17-004)
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