Under a Blanket of Blue

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Under a Blanket of Blue (m. Jerry Livingston*, w. Al J. Neiburg and Marty Symes) — 1933 standard

(above) The Casa Loma Orchestra, Atlantic City, 1933

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, vocal: Kenny Sargent — 1933

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Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans, vocal: Harry Bentley –  recorded in London, 9 October 1933 — Columbia Records (British) CB 666

Carroll Gibbons: (p, dir) Bill Shakespeare, Billy Higgs: (t) Arthur Fenoulhet: (t, tb) Paul Fenoulhet: (tb, a) Sam Acres: (tb) George Melanchrinc: (cl, as, vn) Laurie Payne: (cl, as, bar) George Smith: (ts) Ben Frankel: (vn) Harry Sherman: (g) Jack Evetts: (sb**) Rudy Starita: (d) Harry Bentley: (v)

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Layton & Johnstone — 1933

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Roy Fox and his Band, vocal: Sid Buckman — 1933

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Joe Loss and his Band, vocal: Jimmy Mesene – 1933

The label in the video below credits the recording to “Joe Loss and his Band at the Kit-Cat Restaurant, London.” I presume that is a description of the band, not necessarily an indication of where it was recorded. In the group photo above, taken (I gather) at the Kit-Cat Restaurant, the band being led by Joe Loss is referred to at my source as the Harlem Band. The same source says that Joe Loss & the Harlem Band was “the back up band for R0y Fox and his Kit Kat Orchestra.” I presume Kit-Cat and Kit Kat denote the same place.

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Coleman Hawkins — probably Mercury single 1098, b/w China Boy recorded by the Coleman Hawkins Quintet , NYC, 17 October 1944 — Buck Clayton (trumpet) Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone) Teddy Wilson (piano) Slam Stewart (bass) Denzil Best (drums) 

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Leslie Scott with Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra — NYC, 10 December 1947 — Coleman Hawkins, (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Chuck Wayne (guitar), Jack Lesberg (bass), Max Roach (drums), Leslie Scott (vocals), unidentified strings

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Red Norvo’s Nine — recorded at Hollywood, Radio Recorders, 14 October 1947 and issued as the B-side of Capitol 78 rpm single Hollyridge Drive (Benny Carter)

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Bobby Hackett — LP: Soft Lights and Bobby Hackett, 1954

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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong — recorded on 16 August 1956 and released on their first of three album collaborations for Verve Records, Ella and Louis, 1956

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Lurlean Hunter — from her 1958 LP Stepping Out

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Anita O’Day and Cal Tjader — from their 1962 Verve collaboration Time For Two, album recorded in Los Angeles, CA, 26-28 February 1962

Cal Tjader (vibraphone)
Lonnie Hewitt or Bob Corwin (piano)
Freddy Schreiber (bass)
Johnny Rae (drums)
Anita O’Day (vocals)

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Gene Ammons Quartet –recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 14 April 1962 — Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone) Patti Bown (piano) George Duvivier (bass) Ed Shaughnessy (drums) — released on the 1963 Moodsville (Prestige series) LP The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons, MVLP 28

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* credited under his birth name, Jerry Levinson

** The musician credits were given by the video provider. Sb=string bass. I don’t know what the “a” credited to Paul Fenoulhet stands for, possibly arrangement. The only instruments I’ve seen him credited elsewhere with playing are trumpet and trombone. The musical instrument abbreviation “a” typically denotes alto.

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