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JAY McSHANN and his ORCHESTRA

PR, 'Station KFBI' Wichita, Kansas, KANSAS Saturday, December 2, 1940.

Bernard "Buddy" Anderson, Orville Minor (tp); Bud Gould (tb-1, vln-2); Charlie Parker (as);
William J.Scott [a,b], Bob Mabane [c-g] (ts); Jay McShann (p); Gene Ramey (b); Gus Johnson (ds);
Fred Higginson & Pete Armstrong (vcl, introduction..3).

Note:

Recorded at Radio Station KFBI, by Bud Gould, a station musician
d: No Parker solo. Listed as "Blues" on Spotlite SPJ-120
The seven tunes recorded by McShann at KFBI Studio are often listed together on November 30, but a hand-written track sheet shows that two tunes are from
November 30 and the remainder from December 2. The same archive has a great photo of the McShann group with a very young Charlie Parker.

	All title	Onyx ORI-221	"CHARLIE PARKER FIRST RECORDINGS" [1974]
	a, b	Polydor Special [UK] 236 523/25A	"TREASURY OF GOLDEN SWING" (2LP BOX) [1968]
	All title	RCA [Fr] FMX 1-7334	"JAY MCSHANN CHARLIE PARKER/ EARLY BIRD"
	All title	RCA [J] RGP-1185	"CLASSIC KANSAS CITY JAZZ / C.PARKER & J.MCSHANN" [1976]
	All title	Spotlite [UK] SPJ-120	"EARLY BIRD / JAY MCSHANN ORCHESTRA" [1974]
	All titles	ESP-Disc 4050	"C.PARKER: BIRD IN TIME 1940-1947" (4CDs)
	All titles	Fremeaux & Associes (F) FA 1331	"INTEGRALE CHARLIE PARKER VOL. 1 : GROOVIN' HIGH 1940-1945"
	All titles omit f	Jazz Archives 158.572 [No. 88]	"CHARLIE PARKER EARLY BIRD 1940-1945"
	All titles	Media 7 [Fr] MJCD 78/79)	"YOUNG BIRD, VOLUMES 1 AND 2 / CHARLIE PARKER"
	All titles	Philology [It] W 869 (CD-R)	"BIRD'S EYES, VOLUME 38" (CD-R)
	All titles	Stash STCD 542	"EARLY BIRD / CHARLIE PARKER WITH JAY MCSHANN AND HIS ORCHESTRA"
	c	Stash STB-CD- 2502	"THE CHARLIE PARKER COLLECTION VOL.1"