Miles & Benny

DiscoMiles & Benny
Year1946
VenueUSA
Date
NotesSource: Google Groups
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MilesDavisBennyCarter.rtf

Mar 31 1946 - Streets of Paris 6726 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles CA
Miles Davis (tp) Al Grey (tb) Benny Carter (as) Bumps Myers (ts) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (el-g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr) Ted Yerxa, Fred ? (announcer)
Just You, Just Me (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) BM MD JC BC (fade-out) AG SW 8:08
Don’t Blame Me (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) (face-out during theme) AG SW BM MD (fade-out) MD BC JC 9:04
Sweet Georgia Brown (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) BC AG BM TM (fade-out) JC MD MD/BM-(voiceover closing announcement) (fade-out) 7:34
radio broadcast – The Lamplighter’s Jazz Session – KPAS (apparently recorded off the radio, with fade-outs during disc changes
Discographies have included Howard McGhee (tp) and Britt Woodman (tb); it appears that there is only one trumpet and trombone, and they are announced as Miles Davis and Al Grey.
*(CD) Masters Of Jazz MJCD151 (France) - Young Miles Vol 2

April 1946 - NBC Studios Hollywood CA
Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvin Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross, Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Benny Carter (as, tp) Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps (as) Harold Clark, Bumps Myers (ts) Willard Brown (bs) James Cannady (el-g) Sonny White (p) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr) Ernie Bubbles Whitman (announcer)
introduction with Whitman and Carter, who introduces the song as “Hop, Skip, and…” :22
Who’s Sorry Now (Ted Snyder, arranged by Neal Hefti) BM JC Queen Disc Q009
announcement – Whitman 2:57
I Can’t Get Started (Duke, Gershwin) BC V-Disc 715
announcement – Whitman 3:23
Jump Call (Brenner) MD BC BM V-Disc 701 3:30
Armed Forces Radio Transcriptions – used in Jubilee Program 184
personnel identification largely based on list of band members in a review of the band’s performance at the Swing Club in Hollywood on Jun 5, appearing in Billboard, Jun 22.
(78) V-Disc 701 as Melodrama In A V-Disc Record Room by Benny Carter And His Orchestra, also contains Jimmy Mundy And His Orchestra – Airmail Special b/w Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Prelude To A Kiss and Ring Dem Bells; (78) V-Disc 715 also contains Harry James And His Orchestra – And Then It’s Heaven b/w Mildred Bailey With Paul Baron And His Orchestra – Wish You Were Waitin’ For Me and Honeysuckle Rose; (LP) Queen Disc Q009 (Italy) - Benny Carter Plus The Metronome All Stars 1945
*(CD)Jazz Hour JH-1005

Apr 29 1946 - NBC Studios Los Angeles CA
Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvin Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross, Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Benny Carter (as, tp, cl, arr) Joe Epps, Bob Graettinger (as) Bumps Myers, Harold Clark (ts) Willard Brown (bs) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (el-g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr) Lucy Elliott (voc – 1) George Dvorak, Ernie Bubbles Whitman (announcer)
introduction – Whitman, Carter :42
Co-Ed (Carter) BC(tp) BM 2:16
announcement - Whitman
I’m The Caring Kind (Carter, Irving Gordon) - 1 (Elliot fluffs her entrance) 4:14
announcement - Whitman :19
Frim Fram Sauce (Joe Ricardel) - 1 WB BC 3:47
announcement - Whitman :11
announcement - Whitman :16
Polishing Brass (J J Johnson) SW MD BM AG Jazz Door JD 1206 4:17
Cuttin’ Time (Carter) BC MD BM 2:46
announcement - Whitman :15
announcement - Whitman :09
J525 Prelude To A Kiss (Ellington) BC tp(BC?) 3:07
announcement – Whitman, Carter :38
I Cover The Waterfront (Green, Heyman) BC(tp) BM CR SW 4:20
announcement - Whitman :13
announcement - Whitman :17
JDB131 Back Bay Boogie (Carter) BCSW tp cl BM TM 5:19
closing announcement - Dvorak
One o’clock Jump (theme) :47
Armed Forces Radio Transcriptions – used in Jubilee Programs 191, 193; Polishing Brass is announced as “a jump tune for which there is no title”
personnel identification largely based on list of band members in a review of the band’s performance at the Swing Club in Hollywood on Jun 5, appearing in Billboard, Jun 22.
(CD) Jazz Door JD 1206 = Benny Carter And His Orchestra, issued as untitled original

Apr 30 1946 – Trianon Ballroom 2800 Firestone Blvd Southgate CA
Benny Carter (tp, as) poss Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvis Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross (tb, voc – 1) Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps (as) Harold Clark, Bumps Myers (ts) Willard Brown (bs, as) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (el-g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr) Lucy Elliott (voc – 2)
I’m Gonna Make Believe I’ve Got Myself A Sweetheart - 1
I Cover The Waterfront
Polishin’ Brass
I’m The Caring Kind - 2
(documented in the Benny Carter collection at Rutgers - unissued)

May 5 1946 – Trianon Ballroom 2800 Firestone Blvd Southgate CA
Benny Carter (tp, as) poss Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvis Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross (tb, voc – 1) Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps (as) Harold Clark, Bumps Myers (ts) Willard Brown (bs, as) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (el-g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr) Lucy Elliott (voc – 2)
Night And Day - 2
My Guy’s Come Back - 2
If I Can’t Have You - 1
Comin’ On At The Trianon (Polishin’ Brass ?)
Where Or When
(documented in the Benny Carter collection at Rutgers - unissued)

April - May 1946 - Trianon Ballroom 2800 Firestone Blvd Southgate CA
Benny Carter (tp, as) poss Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvis Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross, Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps (as) Harold Clark, Bumps Myers (ts) Willard Brown (bs, as) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (el-g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr) Lucy Elliott (voc – 1)
Melancholy Lullaby (Carter) (theme) 1:30
Rose Room (Art Hickman, arr- Frank Comstock) MD BC BM CR 3:09
I Can’t Get Started (Vernon, Duke) BC 3:06
Night And Day (Porter) - 1 MD 4:34
One O’Clock Jump (Basie) 2:56
Armed Forces Radio Service transcriptions
*(CD) Jazz Unlimited 201-2078 - The Radio Years 1939 - 1946

May 1946 (NBC Studios Hollywood)
Benny Carter (tp, as, arr) Miles Davis (poss solo), Fred Trainer, Calvis Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross, Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps (as) Harold Clark, Bumps Myers (ts) Willard Brown (bs, as) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr)
Just You, Just Me (R Klages, J Greer) MD BM SW tb JC BC Spotlite SPJ147 4:20
Armed Forces Radio Transcription – Jubilee Program 186
(LP) Spotlite SPJ147 (UK) - (Anthology) - Jazz Off The Air Vol 3

Notes:
Various Personnel Listing Sources -

Billboard, Jun 22 1946 review of Benny Carter at Swing Club, Hollywood Jun 5
Jack (sic) Trainer, Calvin Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (tp) Candy Ross (+ voc), Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps, Hal Clark, Bumps Meyers, Willard Brown (reeds) Sonny White (p) Tommy Moultrie (b) Jimmy Cannady (g) Percy Bryce (dr) Lucy Elliot (voc)

April 1946
Benny Carter (tp, as) Paul Cohen, Ira Pettiford, Walter William (tp) Al Grey, Candy Ross (tb) Willard Brown (as, bs) Bumps Myers (ts) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (el-g) Thomas Moultree (b) Percy Brice (dr)
(Rainer Lotz, Ulrich Neuert, revised by Carl Hallstrom, Bo Scherman, and Michael Arie)

April - May 1946
prob Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvin Strickland, Walter Williams (tp) Candy Ross, John Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb) Benny Carter (as, tp) Joe Epps, Bob Graettinger (as) Bumps Myers, Harold Clark, Dexter Gordon (ts) Willard Brown (bs, as) Sonny White (p) James Cannady (g) Thomas Moultrie (b) Percy Brice (dr)
(Lord (via Ed Berger, author of Benny Carter: A Life in American Music ?)
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