Blue Lou: Museum Object and Cultural History
Blue Lou: recording date: 1947. recording artist: Garner, Erroll. recording artist: Gray, Wardell.
The object in the museum catalogue
Errol Garner, Wardell Gray, Red Callendar, Irving Ashby, and Jackie Mills. side 1: Blue Lou [part 1]; side 2: Blue Lou [part 2] (Modern 20-640). 78 rpm
This pressing is from a live recording in the Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California on April 29, 1947 of a Just Jazz concert presented by American impresario, Gene Norman.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1947
- recording artist: Garner, Erroll
- recording artist: Gray, Wardell
- recording artist: Callender, Red
- recording artist: Ashby, Irving
- recording artist: Mills, Jackie
- manufacturer: Modern
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
- ID Number: 2014.0105.86
- accession number: 2014.0105
- catalog number: 2014.0105.86
- maker number: 20-640
- Credit Line: Gift of Tracie Schneider, The James Lewis Shain Sound Recording Collection in memory of Isadore Schneider
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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