Sagapan (UK) 6909, Everest FS-214, EVEREST (J) YW-7076, Everest (J) YW-7539/40-EV,
Everest (J) YW-7584/85-EV, MGM (F/G) 65.101, MGM (UK) C-986, Saga (UK) ERO-8007,
Vogue (F) 500.204
| # | Matrix | Title | Take | Time | SP | Orig.LP | Reis.LP | CD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Announcement (Bob Garrity) from studio into | 0:21 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | |||||
| "We're gonna take you direct to the Royal Roost on Broadway for the broadcast, but first I'd like to remind you that the famous Music Hall Credit jewelers give up their time just to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Music Hall jewelers, at 1277 Sixth Avenue at 51st Street in Manhattan, the home of the bop pin. And right now, down on Broadway to the Royal Roost we go 'Jumping with Symphony Sid'..." | ||||||||
| a | Jumpin' with Symphony Sid / Jingle Bells (voiceover) | 1:00 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | |||||
| Voiceover from 0:14: "And so once again, ladies and gentlemen, Friday night, Saturday morning, when we take our WMCA microphones right down to the Royal Roost, the original Metropolitan Bopera House, and bring you some of the greatest in modern progressive jazz featuring the wonderful Mr. B, Billy Eckstine, the sensational and wonderful Charlie Ventura and his gone group, and of course the great Bird, Charlie Parker and the All-Stars, who are now doing our theme, 'Jumpin' with Symphony Sid', and I know that we're really set for a wonderful morning, a brand new Christmas morning, bringing in a 1949 year that I know a lot of you frantic ones out there will really enjoy. And, ladies and gentlemen, Charlie Parker and the All-Stars with the great Bird, Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Tommy Potter on bass, Al Haig on piano, and Max Roach on drums, do a little thing for you that I know you'll really enjoy... (Parker says 'Half Nelson') 'Half Nelson'..." Introduction incomplete (0:15) on Savoy 17021/4 and Definitive | ||||||||
| b | Half Nelson | 4:30 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| c | Announcement | 0:46 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| "And so on a Christmas night we're down here... Christmas morning, we're down here at the Royal Roost, the wonderful spot where everything is really beautiful, the music is so gone, and as I said before, if you are a purist and you like the kind of things we do on the all-night, all-frantic one, the Royal Roost, ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't dug it you haven't lived. Right? (undecipherable) You know, I'm having a lot of trouble? Sure am -- something's wrong with the microphone, but what do we care, we're on the air and that's all that matters. You know somebody called a little while ago, when they called at the studio, and they said, I wonder if you could get Bird to do something on Christmas? Well, it's fitting, this is Christmas, ah, morning, and the Bird's got a little arrangement, a little surprise for you on 'White Christmas'..." Incomplete (0:20) on Savoy 17021/4 and Definitive | ||||||||
| d | White Christmas | 4:52 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| During his solo Parker quotes "Jingle Bells" (1:52-1:57), which derails Symphony Sid for a few moments | ||||||||
| e | Announcement, Parker says "Right" | 0:32 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| Sid: "You just leave it to the Bird. Anything you want, Bird'll straighten it. Ah, you never can happen what... you never know what can happen with the Bird on Star Music Hall Credit jewelers giving away all these wonderful bop pins. And who should walk in for his bop pin but Charlie Parker, right?" Parker: "Right." Sid: "Came into old Music Hall jewelers this afternoon and said, I want my bop pin. Right now, here's the wonderful thing Bird made for Savoy not so long ago, I think it came out of an album. No, it was a single record on Savoy, a little thing called 'Little Willie Leaps'..." Incomplete (0:09) on Savoy 17021/4 and Definitive | ||||||||
| f | Little Willie Leaps | 3:38 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| Early in his solo Parker quotes "Why Was I Born?" (0:38-0:41) | ||||||||
| g | 52nd Street Theme (with closing announcement) | 5:53 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| Voiceover from 0:05: "And so, ladies and gentlemen, for the great Charlie Parker and the All-Stars, down here at the Royal Roost, Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Tommy Potter on bass, Al Haig on piano, and the great Max Roach on drums, we brought you about fifteen or twenty minutes of the jazz hour of the all-night, all-frantic one, the Symphony Sid show, where every morning you can call Circle-six-two-five-hundred and really have yourself a wonderful time. We talk about the Royal Roost every morning, we tell you a lot of pretty things that happen down here, a lot of the wonderful music that I hope you really enjoy. I saw (undecipherable) 'In Walked Bud', in walked Bud -- that's the guy that answers telephone calls, just a young pretty boy that we have around the place, you know, just for kicks. Ah, it's Bob Garrity that does all the hard work this morning, so, ah, how 'bout, how 'bout, ah, Bob Garrity..." | ||||||||
| h | Announcement (Bob Garrity) | 0:48 | SJL 2259 | Savoy (J)K30Y 6241/4 | ||||
| "That's what you call abrupt. And here I am, I was almost ready to take a sip of coffee, but it's not good for me anyway, so it's just as well. Well, that takes care of about the first third of the broadcast this morning, direct from the Royal Roost on Broadway between 47th and 48th, listening to the one and only genius of the alto saxophone, Yardbird Charlie Parker and the group, the quintet down there at the Royal Roost. Great music, too. And this is the Christmas morning edition of the jazz hour, being broadcast direct from the Royal Roost, no records this morning between 3:03 and 4:00, strictly live talent, direct from the Royal Roost. Don't go away, because we're gonna be on right up till 4:00, and of course after four, we'll be back here for more records. Right now, over America's leading independent station, WMCA, first on your dial in New York, let's get back to the Royal Roost, 'Jumping with Symphony Sid'..." Unfortunately, the remainder of this broadcast seems to be missing | ||||||||
| d | BIRD BLOWS XMAS, no number | |
| All titles | Savoy SJL-2259 | "BIRD AT THE ROOST / THE COMPLETE ROYAL ROOST PERFORMANCES Vol.1" (2LP set) |
| b, d, f | BLACK ELEPHANT (Du) PE-811.009 | "BROADCAST PERFORMANCES 1948-1949, Vol.2" | |
| b, d, f | CED-EXPLOSIVE (F) 538.104 | "BROADCAST PERFORMANCES 1948-1949, Vol.2" | |
| b, d, f | RCA/Savoy (UK) WL-70541 | "C.PARKER / BIRD AT THE ROOST" | |
| b, d, f, j | Spotlite (UK) SPJ-110 | "C.PARKER / BIRD AT THE ROOST" | |
| d, f | ESP-Bird-1 | "BROADCAST PERFORMANCES 1948-1949, Vol.1" | |
| d, f | Okidoke unnumb. | "RERE BIRD" | |
| d | Bellaphon (G) BLS-4040, Charlie Parker Records CP-701 (3 LP Box), Ember (UK) CJS-821, Sagapan (UK) 6909, Everest FS-214, EVEREST (J) YW-7076, Everest (J) YW-7539/40-EV, Everest (J) YW-7584/85-EV, MGM (F/G) 65.101, MGM (UK) C-986, Saga (UK) ERO-8007, Vogue (F) 500.204 | ||
| f | JazzLive/Ca (I) BLJ-8014 | ||
| b, d, f | Definitive DRCD 11153_4 | "THE COMPLETE SAVOY LIVE RECORDINGS" [4CDs] |
| b, d, f | ESP - DISK 3000 | "LIVE PERFORMANCES" | |
| All titles | Fremeaux & Associes FA 1335 | "INTEGRALE CHARLIE PARKER VOL. 5 : PARKER'S MOOD 1947-1949" [3CDs] | |
| d | Jazz Archives No. 3 | "CHARLIE PARKER SESSION LIVE VOL.1 1948/1950" | |
| All titles | Savoy (J) COCY-75791/8 | "THE COMPLETE CHARLIE PARKER ON SAVOY YEARS" [8 CDs] Disc 5 - 8 | |
| All titles | Savoy (J) COCB-50405 / 8 | THE COMPLETE ROYAL ROOST LIVE RECORDINGS, Volume 1 / C.PARKER | |
| b, d, f | Savoy Jazz SVY 17021/4 | "THE COMPLETE LIVE PERFORMANCES ON SAVOY" [4 CDs] | |
| a, b, d, f | Savoy (J) 240E 6844 | "CHARLIE PARKER ON SAVOY - ROYAL ROOST BEST TAKES -" | |
| All titles | Savoy ZDS-4412 | C.PARKER: BIRD AT THE ROOST, Vol.2 | |
| a, b, d, f, g | Savoy (J) K30Y 6241-2 | "BIRD AT THE ROOST VOLUME ONE / THE SAVOY YEARS, THE COMPLETE ROYAL ROOST PERFORMANCES" [2CDs] [disc 2] | |
| b, d, f | Savoy (J) K25Y-9521-28 | "Charlie Parker Complete Savoy Years" | |