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Music Festival

Title: Carnival Of Swing Venue: Randall's Island Municipal Stadium City:   New York City, New York, USA Date: Sunday, 29 May 1938 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:

	Lineup	Rating
1	Benny Goodman	Rate
2	Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra	Rate
3	Artie Shaw And His Orchestra	Rate
4	Chick Webb And His Savoy Ballroom Orchestra	Rate
5	Vincent Lopez And His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra	Rate
6	Count Basie And His Orchestra	Rate
7	Sammy Kaye Orchestra	Rate
8	Bunny Berigan And His Orchestra	Rate
9	Hal Kemp And His Orchestra	Rate
10	Kay Kyser And His Orchestra	Rate
11	Russ Morgan And His Orchestra	Rate
12	Woody Herman And His Orchestra	Rate
13	Roy Eldrige	Rate
14	Larry Clinton	Rate
15	"Hot Lips" Page	Rate
16	Will Osborne	Rate
17	John Kirby	Rate
18	Milt Herth Trio	Rate
19	The Andrews Sisters	Rate
20	Stuff Smith	Rate
21	Hudson-DeLange Orchestra	Rate

Notes

Outdoor benefit for unemployed musicians in Musicians Union Local 802, organized by WNEW's Martin Block and presenting 21 swing orchestras. Attended by 23,400 swing music fans, this is considered to be the first outdoor jazz music festival ever.

Parts of the concerts were broadcasted live by New York radio station WNEW. Much of the rest seems to have been recorded by sound engineer Bill Savory onto 12- or even 16-inch discs at 33 1/3 rpm, including Benny Goodman on clarinet in a duet with Teddy Wilson on harpsichord playing “Oh, Lady Be Good!"; Billie Holiday, accompanied by piano, singing a rubato version of “Strange Fruit;” and performances by Count Basie and Stuff Smith.

In 2010, Savory's estate gave these transcriptions to the National Jazz Museum of Harlem, which restored and digitized them. In 2018, they were released as part of The Savory Collection Mosaic CD set (review).

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Live Music

Count Basie - Guildhall - UK (1962)

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