JOHN COLTRANE
1951 RADIO BROADCASTS
Birdland
New York, NY, USA

Lineage: Boot LP Oberon 5100 "Trane's First Ride 1951" > Sony PS-LX250H > Yamaha RX-396 > Zoom H2 (line-in) >
WAV > WavePad Sound Editor (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (FLAC 8, align on sector boundaries)

Sound Quality: B/B+

Side A
01 Congo Blues
02 Night in Tunisia
03 Yesterdays
04 Birk's Works

Side B
05 Good Bait
06 I Can't Get Started
07 Birk's Works (Air Check 2)
08 Jumping with Symphony Sid (Theme)

Total Time = 32:14

Typical of many jazz bootleg LPs, this one contains no dates nor any information beyond song titles
and the year of 1951 (despite having a long liner essay by one "E.S.Spoe"). After a good bit of research
(and matching some of it with my recollections from countless hours of listening to the pedantic, yet
informative Phil Schaap on Bird Flight here in New York City weekday mornings on WKCR), I have come up
with the following probable list of dates and line-ups. The venue is always Birldand.


Tracks 01, 02, 03
1951-January-6
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet
John Coltrane, tenor
Milt Jackson, vibraphone
Billy Taylor, piano
Percey Heath, bass
Art Blakey, drums

Track 05
1951-January-13
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet

Tracks 04, 06, 08
1951-February-3
Dizzy Gillespie Septet
same as above, add J.J. Johnson, trombone

Track 07
1951-March-17
Dizzy Gillespie Septet
same as above, but changes: John Lewis, piano; Carl "Kansas" Fields, drums