Blue Note Records Discography: 1945-1950 - session index

1945

• Anita O'Day  Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA, Jan. 18, 1945
• Jimmy Shirley  WOR Studios, NYC, Jan. 23, 1945
• Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen  WOR Studios, NYC, Jan. 29, 1945
• Benny Morton's All Stars  WOR Studios, NYC, Jan. 31, 1945
• Bunk Johnson - Sidney Bechet 6  WOR Studios, NYC, Mar. 10, 1945
• Original Art Hodes' 3  WOR Studios, NYC, Apr. 6, 1945
• Ike Quebec 5  WOR Studios, NYC, Apr. 10, 1945
• Art Hodes' Hot Seven  WOR Studios, NYC, May 17, 1945
• Art Hodes' Hot Seven  WOR Studios, NYC, May 23, 1945
• Bobby Hackett Orch.  WOR Studios, NYC, May 31, 1945
• Ike Quebec Swing Seven  WOR Studios, NYC, July 17, 1945
• Sammy Benskin 3  WOR Studios, NYC, July 27, 1945
• Alamo "Pigmeat" Markham w/ Oliver "Rev." Mesheux's Blue Six  WOR Studios, NYC, Aug. 31, 1945
• Art Hodes' Back Room Boys  WOR Studios, NYC, Sep. 14, 1945
• Art Hodes' Hot Five  WOR Studios, NYC, Oct. 12, 1945
• Jimmy Hamilton & The Duke's Men  WOR Studios, NYC, Nov. 21, 1945
• Baby Dodds' Jazz Four  WOR Studios, NYC, Dec. 26, 1945
• Lester Young Band  LA, Dec., 1945

1946

• Lester Young Band  LA, Jan., 1946
• Sidney Bechet - Albert Nicholas Blue Five  WOR Studios, NYC, Feb. 12, 1946
• John Hardee's Swingtet  WOR Studios, NYC, Feb. 28, 1946
• John Hardee 6  WOR Studios, NYC, May 31, 1946
• Tiny Grimes' Swingtet  WOR Studios, NYC, Aug. 14, 1946
• Lester Young Band  LA, Aug., 1946
• Ike Quebec Swing Seven  WOR Studios, NYC, Sep. 23, 1946
• Lester Young 6  Chicago, IL, Oct., 1946

1947

• Lester Young 6  Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA, Feb. 18, 1947
• Babs' Three Bips & A Bop  WOR Studios, NYC, Feb. 24, 1947
• Lester Young 6  NYC, Apr. 2, 1947
• Babs' Three Bips & A Bop  WOR Studios, NYC, May 7, 1947
• George Lewis New Orleans Stompers  Marblehead, MA, late sum. 1947
• Tadd Dameron 6  WOR Studios, NYC, Sep. 26, 1947
• Thelonious Monk 6  WOR Studios, NYC, Oct. 15, 1947
• Thelonious Monk 3  WOR Studios, NYC, Oct. 24, 1947
• Thelonious Monk 5  WOR Studios, NYC, Nov. 21, 1947
• Art Blakey's Messengers  WOR Studios, NYC, Dec. 22, 1947
• Lester Young 5  WOR Studios, NYC, Dec. 29, 1947

1948

• Thelonious Monk 4  Apex Studios, NYC, July 2, 1948
• Tadd Dameron 7  Apex Studios, NYC, Sep. 13, 1948
• Howard McGhee - Fats Navarro Boptet  Apex Studios, NYC, Oct. 11, 1948
• James Moody Bop Men  Apex Studios, NYC, Oct. 19, 1948
• James Moody Bop Men  Apex Studios, NYC, Oct. 25, 1948

1949 (The 10th anniversary)

• Babs Gonzales Orch.  NYC, Jan. 20, 1949
• Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen  WOR Studios, NYC, Jan. 21, 1949
• Babs Gonzales Orch.  Capitol Studios, Melrose Avenue, LA, Mar. 15 or 20, 1949
• Sidney Bechet Blue Note Jazzmen  WOR Studios, NYC, Mar. 23, 1949
• Babs Gonzales Orch.  NYC, Apr. 27, 1949
• James Moody 4  Lausanne, Switzerland, Apr. 30, 1949
• Max Roach 5  Paris, France, May 15, 1949
• Bud Powell's Modernists  WOR Studios, NYC, Aug. 9, 1949
• Clyde Bernhardt Kansas City Buddies  Carnegie Hall Studio, NYC, Oct. 6, 1949
• Sidney Bechet w/ Claude Luter Orch.  Paris, France, Oct. 14, 1949
• Sidney Bechet w/ Claude Luter Orch.  Paris, France, Nov. 15, 1949

1950

• Howard McGhee All Stars  WOR Studios, NYC, Jan. 23, 1950
• T-Bone Walker Band  LA, Apr. 5, 1950
• Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen  WOR Studios, NYC, Apr. 19, 1950
• The Cool Britons  London, England, July 29, 1950