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Tadd Dameron's Big Ten with Miles Davis- February 19 & 26, 1949 Royal Roost, NYC | REMASTERED

Miles sitting in with bebop's great arranger February 19 & 26, 1949 Royal Roost, 1580 Broadway, New York City, New York TADD DAMERON'S BIG TEN: Miles Davis- trumpet Kai Winding- trombone Sahib Shihab- alto saxophone Benjamin Lundy- tenor saxophone Cecil Payne- baritone saxophone Tadd Dameron- piano John Collins- guitar Curley Russell- bass Kenny Clarke- drums Carlos Vidal Bolado- congas February 19, 1949: Focus (T. Dameron) 00:00 April in Paris (V. Duke-E.Y. Harburg) 04:00 Good Bait (T. Dameron-C. Basie) 07:00 Webb's Delight [aka Sid's Delight or Tadd's Delight] (T. Dameron) 10:27 February 26, 1949: Milé [aka Milano] (T. Dameron) 14:10 Casbah (T. Dameron) 17:48 closing credits 21:26 Broadcast on WMCA Radio's All Night, All Frantic with Symphony Sid Torin- announcer The Royal Roost, a chicken restaurant in the basement of 1580 Broadway in Manhattan, started presenting modern jazz in early 1948 at the suggestion of WMCA DJ Symphony Sid Torin. The club was nicknamed 'the Metropolitan Bopera House', a pun on its near neighbour, and, despite a brief 11 month heyday, hosted a who's who of post war jazz- Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lester Young, and Woody Herman. Charlie Parker's quintet with Davis played there often, featuring in several broadcasts in late 1948. Miles also led a two week slot at the Roost with his innovative nonet, later known as the Birth Of The Cool band, their only public appearance. The Parker quintet were appearing at the Roost shortly before Christmas when Miles and drummer Max Roach quit after a huge row, ending Bird and Davis' regular working relationship. Another regular at the Roost was pianist Tadd Dameron, an excellent composer and arranger, and a fine soloist, who had led a band at the club in the summer and autumn of 1948 that included the brilliant bebop trumpeter Fats Navarro. A number of radio broadcasts from the Roost are collected on Fats Navarro Featured With The Tadd Dameron Band (Milestone, 1977). However, Navarro's heroin addiction and ill health made him frequently unavailable (he would eventually die of tuberculosis in 1950, aged just 26) and when Dameron led a ten piece band at the Roost from February 12 to March 16 1949, opposite Parker's quintet, Navarro was temporarily replaced. There are four surviving Saturday night radio broadcasts from this engagement; the first, from the opening night, has Leonard Hawkins depping on trumpet, but from February 17th Davis took over and this post features music from the next two broadcasts (a final aircheck from March 5 often appears in Davis discographies but has no audible trumpet; the reason for Miles' absence is unknown). The Big Ten features a solid line-up of musicians that straddled swing and the newer sounds of bebop (only tenorist Lundy remains obscure). Miles sounds full-toned and confident (these broadcasts come a month after the first of the nonet's Capitol sessions) and Dameron's arrangements are colourful and detailed. Only Shihab's alto sounds dated, with a tremulous vibrato that sounds like a dance band player (it's perhaps no accident that, on joining Dizzy Gillespie's band, Shihab would concentrate on the more muscular sounding baritone). Vidal's congas are an interesting addition, achieving a more successful integration with the swung rhythms than was sometimes the case with Latin percussionists. Of particular note is the arrangement of Focus, where guitarist John Collins plays the melody; when Dameron recorded the piece for Capitol in 1949 the part was replaced with a wordless vocal by Rae Pearl making the piece sound hopelessly dated- this version is far preferable. Although the music feels quite different, Dameron's Big Ten and Miles' own nonet seem to have had common aims- to adapt the language of the angular and frenetic bebop and fashion it into something more melodic and urbane. Dameron and Davis would continue to work closely that year- the Big Ten recorded for Capitol Records on April 21, the day before the second Birth Of The Cool session and, when Dameron was invited to play at the first Paris Jazz Festival in May, Davis was his choice for trumpet. It also appears there were rehearsals in August that year for an 18 piece band but it was abandoned after a lack of interest from clubs and record companies. A couple of appearances at Birdland the following year marked the end of their working relationship, although Miles continued to play Dameron's compositions including the piece here titled Webb's Delight, recorded by Miles as Tadd's Delight for Columbia in 1956. Dameron made a handful of classic albums, notably Fontainebleau and Mating Call (both Prestige, 1956) the latter with John Coltrane on tenor, and The Magic Touch (Riverside, 1962). However, his activities were curtailed by addiction, incarceration, and ill health and he died from cancer in 1965, aged 48. The site of the Royal Roost is currently a bakery.