Crazy Rhythm: Lester Young, John Birks, Charlie Ventura, Willie Smith, Lee Young, Billy Hadnott, Shoeless Joe Jackson
Sweet Georgia Brown: Lester Young, John Birks, Charlie Ventura, Willie Smith. Al Killian, Charlie Parker, Lee Young, Billy Hadnott, Shoeless Joe Jackson
("Shoeless Joe Jackson" is a pseudonym for Mel Powell)
Hi Laurence, thanks for your reply. Looking again at the album cover and the record labels, I assume that your cover is the later version.
Cover: I have also saved a second version of the Vol. 4 cover which looks even more like your cover, as it shows only two saxophones (tenor/alto) and a baton but no trumpet, and has the JATP "logo", the trumpet player from Vol. 1 (also with copyright "1946 DISC") instead on the left. I have always thought that this was the later issue of Vol. 4 (I've added it to my list as well).
Labels: Your record labels don't say just "Disc New York" like most Disc records I've seen but "Disc Asch Recordings New York". From what I've found on Billboard via Google Books I know that Moe Asch founded Disc Records in 1946 but moved out at the end of 1947. Disc however was continued in 1948 by George Erlinger, president of a pressing plant and former money source of Asch. Erlinger then used the JATP masters (Vol. 2 to Vol. 5) without permission of Norman Granz (subject-matter in a number of lawsuits) and he probably also added "Asch Recordings" to the label.
Hi fixbutte, that's a very interesting list. I have no idea which cover was first. This copy was purchased some time in the 1940s by a friend who passed away some years ago. I happen to have two of these covers and both are the same shade, so I think that what you see is the original color. The binder is black, and the back cover is burgundy.
By the way, the sort of moiré patterns on this cover scan are an artifact from my Canon scanner, which does not do well with bright pinkish objects. I will have to look at my driver settings and see if there's a way to correct that.
An interesting variation of the multi-varied JATP series. Until now, I only knew another cover for this two-disc 12" album, a red one with a different David Stone Martin design, whereas the design for the Vol. 3 shown here was used again for the Vol. 4, in blue color though, see this list of mine (with different designs again for the 10" reissues of Vol. 3).
@LaurenceD:
What do you think was the first version of the Vol. 3 cover? In appearance of the your cover, is the pink color the original shade or is it paled? What color has the binder of your album (that you did not scan)?