{"value"=>"<p>This subseries documents George Avakian's production work with recording artists from the 1950s to the 1980s; the work of Anahid and Maro Ajemian; and numerous other artists whose recordings were gifted or referred to Avakian for his enjoyment or audition. The recordings are comprised of studio recording sessions; unreleased live performances; demonstration recordings; and radio and television broadcasts. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by artist name or subject.</p> <p>Artists with the most content in the subseries are Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins, Anahid Ajemian, Maro Ajemian, the Composers String Quartet, Duke Ellington, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, William Masselos, and Keith Jarrett.</p> <p>Artists with lower volumes of content, but still with unique and important recordings, include Cannonball Adderley, Luther Allison, Chet Baker, Art Blakey, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Bud Freeman, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Harris/Les McCann, Earl Hines, Alan Hovhaness, Freddie Hubbard, Mahalia Jackson, Johnny Mathis, Bob Newhart, Ravi Shankar, and Jimmy Smith.</p> <p>Large portions of the audio are composed of either studio recording sessions or unissued/partially-issued live performances. The recording sessions, often in Avakian's personal possession for review or editing purposes, usually contain multiple takes, insert takes, studio discussion, and editing attempts. Most are grouped under artists by name of the associated recording project, if known. Many of the sessions contain unedited or unreleased material. Most recording sessions are mono copies of stereo originals, but a few are in stereo and may be original masters. Live recordings consist of professionally-recorded performances, radio broadcasts, and informal recordings of varying quality.</p> <p>Artists with notable studio recording sessions and live content in the collection include:</p> <p>Benny Goodman: Extensive recordings, mostly unreleased, from Goodman's 1962 tour of the Soviet Union, sponsored by the U.S. State Department; three different sources for Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert; recording sessions for RCA; and two other unreleased live performances.</p> <p>Louis Armstrong: Recording sessions for the singles Mack the Knife and Six Foot Four,\" and the albums <span class=\"title\">Plays W.C. Handy</span>, <span class=\"title\">Satch Plays Fats</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Ambassador Satch</span>; the complete 1956 \"Great Chicago\" concert (partially-issued); a wholly-unissued 1953 Boston performance opposite the Benny Goodman Orchestra under the direction of Gene Krupa (arranged under Krupa's name); and multiple unissued live shows in the United States and Europe, including documentation of Armstrong's 1948 French tour.</p> <p>Charles Lloyd: Recording sessions for the albums <span class=\"title\">Of Course, Of Course</span>; <span class=\"title\">Nirvana</span>, and unissued or partially-unissued sessions for Atlantic Records; complete live recordings from which the albums <span class=\"title\">Love-In</span> and <span class=\"title\">Journey Within</span> were derived; and multiple other unissued performances, dating from 1966 to 1968.</p> <p>Sonny Rollins: Recording sessions for the 1962-1964 RCA albums <span class=\"title\">The Bridge</span>, <span class=\"title\">What's New?</span>, <span class=\"title\">Now's The Time</span>, <span class=\"title\">Sonny Meets Hawk!</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Standard Sonny Rollins</span>, including many unreleased items; wholly-unissued live material recorded at the Jazz Gallery, New York City, in late 1961; and partially-issued live recordings at the Village Gate in 1962.</p> <p>Anahid Ajemian: A never-released studio recording of the <span class=\"title\">Sonata for Solo Violin</span> by Béla Bartók; premiere performances of <span class=\"title\">Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra</span> by Lou Harrison, <span class=\"title\">Akhtamar</span> for two violins, piano, and percussion by Michelle Ekizian, and <span class=\"title\">Chamber Fantasie</span>, Op. 51 by Ben Weber; and an unreleased performance of <span class=\"title\">Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra</span>, Op. 12, by Kurt Weill (arranged under the Music for Moderns concert series).</p> <p>Maro Ajemian: A live performance of <span class=\"title\">Mihr</span> by Alan Hovhaness (with Hovhaness on second piano); the 1942 U.S. premiere of <span class=\"title\">Piano Concerto in Db major</span>, Op. 38 by Aram Khachaturian, with the Juilliard Orchestra; and the 1979 memorial concert for Ajemian.</p> <p>Anahid and Maro Ajemian: KQED San Francisco radio broadcasts of Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano; MGM studio recording sessions of Mozart violin sonatas; and live performances at Carnegie Hall and Lewisohn Stadium in New York City, and in San Francisco.</p> <p>Composers String Quartet: Recording sessions, finished masters, and a few live performances, including music by Samuel Barber, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Paul Hindemith, Charles Ives, Felix Mendelssohn, Mel Powell, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Franz Schubert, Alban Berg, and others. Most of the material is from the 1980s.</p> <p>Duke Ellington: Unreleased or partially-released live performances, including the 1957 world premiere of the Shakespeare suite <span class=\"title\">Such Sweet Thunder</span> (arranged under Music for Moderns); 1958 concerts in Liverpool and London, the United Kingdom; the 1948 Carnegie Hall concert; informal recordings in India (1963); a rehearsal in Milan (1967); and a recording session for <span class=\"title\">The River</span> (1970).</p> <p>Paul Desmond: Early recordings in 1947 and 1950; recording sessions for the 1959-1964 albums <span class=\"title\">First Place Again</span>, <span class=\"title\">Take Ten</span>, <span class=\"title\">Desmond Blue</span>, <span class=\"title\">Late Lament</span>, <span class=\"title\">Bossa Antigua</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Glad To Be Unhappy</span>, many with guitarist Jim Hall; and the album <span class=\"title\">Two Of A Mind</span> with Gerry Mulligan.</p> <p>Dave Brubeck: Recording sessions for the albums <span class=\"title\">Brubeck Time</span> and <span class=\"title\">Dave Digs Disney</span>; and multiple live performances of the Brubeck quartet, all from the 1950s.</p> <p>William Masselos: Unissued performances, including the pianist's complete, multi-hour 1969 Carnegie Hall engagement.</p> <p>Keith Jarrett: Recording sessions for the albums <span class=\"title\">Expectations</span> (1972) and <span class=\"title\">Ruta and Daitya</span> (with Jack DeJohnette, 1971); unissued recording sessions for Atlantic Records; an unissued recording of Jarrett's first solo concert in New York (1972); the complete recordings at Shelly's Manne-Hole in Los Angeles, which produced the album <span class=\"title\">Somewhere Before</span> (1968); and the complete recordings at the Village Vanguard which produced the album <span class=\"title\">Fort Yawuh</span> (1973).</p> <p>Other notable recordings in the collection include:</p> <p>Chet Baker: A complete recording of Baker's performance at the Village Vanguard, New York City, on September 6, 1981 (produced by Avakian and never issued).</p> <p>Count Basie: Live airchecks in good sound quality (1937-1939); and a newly-discovered 1939 live performance in Glendale, California.</p> <p>Ruby Braff: An informal 1986 duo recording with the pianist Dick Hyman live at Struggles jazz club, Edgewater, New Jersey.</p> <p>Ornette Coleman: The complete recording of Coleman's 1962 performance at Town Hall, New York City, only parts of which have been previously issued.</p> <p>Willis Conover: A United States Information Agency memorial tribute concert for the Voice of America jazz DJ, featuring Billy Taylor, Valery Ponomarev, Paquito D'Rivera, Charlie Byrd, and others.</p> <p>Miles Davis: Recording sessions for the albums <span class=\"title\">'Round About Midnight</span>, <span class=\"title\">Miles Ahead</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Seven Steps To Heaven</span>; a version of the soundtrack for the film <span class=\"title\">Ascenseur pour l'échafaud</span> which includes a previously-unheard take of one track; and complete, unreleased performances at the Fillmore East (March 6, 1970), and in Paris (May 3, 1982).</p> <p>A Concert of Electronic Music at the International Conference of Composers, Stratford, Ontario, 1960, featuring works by Karl Hoeller, Edgard Varèse, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Henk Badings, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Otto Luening.</p> <p>A Concert of Mid-20th Century Music, presented by the Contemporary Music Society, 1960, with music by Michael Colgrass, Ernst Krenek, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Luigi Dallapiccola.</p> <p>Hearts for Ella: A tribute concert for Ella Fitzgerald featuring Ray Brown, Stan Getz, Phil Woods, David Sanborn, Louie Bellson, Jimmy Heath, George Shearing, Joe Williams, James Moody, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and more.</p> <p>Dizzy Gillespie: An unreleased 1947 recording of the Gillespie big band.</p> <p>Earl Hines: A 1956 radio program featuring Hines performing and being interviewed.</p> <p>Alan Hovhaness: Several never-released live performances and premieres of his music.</p> <p>Mahalia Jackson: Unissued performances at the Newport Jazz Festival (1963), and at the Apple Valley Columbia Distributor Convention Party (1955).</p> <p>Lee Konitz and Martial Solal: A 1979 recording session, only partially-issued.</p> <p>Johnny Mathis: Unreleased demos; recording sessions for the <span class=\"title\">Johnny Mathis</span> and <span class=\"title\">Wonderful Wonderful</span> albums; and an informal live performance with Erroll Garner (1956).</p> <p>Gerry Mulligan: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1970), and in Pennsauken, New Jersey (1960).</p> <p>Bud Powell: Solo and duo recordings with Marian McPartland and Ed Thigpen in 1953, never issued.</p> <p>Art Tatum: An informal 1940 recording with musicians from the Jimmy Lunceford orchestra, never issued.</p> <p>Tbilisi Interjazz Festival 1989: Performances by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard, the Eddie Harris/Les McCann Quartet, Jimmy Smith, Luther Allison, and the Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen / Kenny Drew Duo.</p> <p>Clark Terry: A performance in Staten Island, New York (1962).</p> <p>Ben Webster: Private unreleased recordings (1937).</p> <p>Dick Welstood: A live recording at the New School with clarinetist Kenny Davern, unreleased, about 1974.</p> <p>Also present are unique recordings of Adelaide Hall, Marty Grosz, Bud Freeman, Jon Hendricks, Nancy Harrow, and Lee Wiley.</p>"}