Comet Records

Comet Records was a jazz and R&B record label founded in 1944 by Les Schriber, Sr. and Harry Alderton. The label is most known for having recorded and produced T-Bone Walker and Red Norvo. The label was acquired by Black & White Records and operated as a subsidiary. Comet recorded – but never released – a session with Charlie Parker on June 6, 1945. That master was sold to Dial Records in 1949, when Black & White Records went out of business.^[1][2]

Selected session discography

• Red Norvo and His Selected Sextet, recorded June 6, 1945, WOR Recording Studios, 39th & Broadway, New York — master was originally owned by Comet, but sold to Dial Records who first released some of the cuts.

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Red Norvo, Teddy Wilson, Slam Stewart, Specs Powell, J.C. Heard (Heard alternates with Powell).

Various releases (compilations): OCLC 16669751, 761013263 and 6690888; OCLC 57497670 and 493441849.

T8-1 Hallelujah (Sing Hallelujah)

T8-2 Hallelujah

T8-3 Hallelujah

T8-? Hallelujah

T9-3 Get happy

T9-4 Get happy

T10-1 Slam Slam blues (Bird's Blues)

T10-2 Slam Slam blues

T11-1 Congo blues

T11-2 Congo blues (incomplete take)

T11-3 Congo blues

T11-4 Congo blues (incomplete take)

T11-5 Congo blues

Comet artists & their original shellac (78rpm) releases

• Cow Cow Davenport
  • C-1 Gotta Girl For Every Day In The Week//Jump, Little Jitterbug (1944)
  • C-2 Jeep Boogie//Chimin' Away (1944)
  • C-3 Hobson City Stomp//Run Into Me (1944)
  • C-4 Cow Cow's Stomp//Gin Mill Stomp (1944)
• Art Tatum Trio (featuring Tiny Grimes and Slam Stewart)
  • T-1 THE MAN I LOVE//DARK EYES (1944)
  • T-2 BODY AND SOUL//I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW (1944)
  • T-3 ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET//FLYING HOME (1944)
• Cyril Haynes Sextet (featuring Don Byas) / Cyril Nathaniel Haynes (1915–1996)
  • T-4 Morning Madness//One Sad Thursday (1945)
  • T-5 Across The Road//Cedar Manor (1945)
• Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet (featuring Charlie Parker)
  • T-6 Halleluliah [sic]//"Slam Slam" Blues (1945)
  • T-7 Get Happy//Congo Blues (1945)
• Four Kings & A Queen / Orval "Baggie" Hardiman (1913–1999)
  • 1301 All I Need Is A Lucky Break//Shoo Shoo Baby (1944)
  • 1302 King's Boogie//Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City (1944)
  • 1304 One Of Those Dreams That Fell Thru//Ration Blues (1945)
• T-Bone Walker & His Guitar
  • T-50 WEST SIDE BABY//LONESOME WOMEN BLUES (previously released Black & White material; reissued 1948)
  • T-51 I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU//INSPIRATION BLUES (previously released Black & White material; reissued 1948)
  • T-52 THAT OLD FEELIN' IS GONE//DESCRIPTION BLUES (previously released Black & White material; reissued 1948)
  • T-53 FIRST LOVE BLUES//T-BONE SHUFFLE (previously released Black & White material; reissued 1948)
• Jack McVea & His All Stars
  • T-100 B.B. Boogie//H.P. Boogie (previously released Black & White material; reissued 1948)

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