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Contemporary Label Discography Lester Koenig started the Good Time Jazz label in Los Angeles in 1951, it was located at 707 North Irving Boulevard. In 1953 they moved to 8481 Melrose Place. Vice President of the company was Bob Kirstein. Producers were Nesuhi Ertegun (later of Atlantic fame) and Bob Kirstein. The output of the label was jazz and folk music. Contemporary Records was formed as a subsidiary in 1952 or 1953. Contemporary was also located at 8481 Melrose Place. The output of Contemporary was jazz and classical music. The Society For Forgotten Music Label (SFM) subsidiary was formed in 1958. The SFM label released classical music. The California Label subsidiary was formed in 1958 and only released one known album. Contemporary formed a label called Stereo Records in 1958, and released stereo versions of albums released in monaural on California, Contemporary, Good Time Jazz and the Society for Forgotten Music. This separate label for stereo was used into 1959 and then abandoned and stereo releases were issued on the same label as the monaural releases. All of the Contemporary labels were purchased by Fantasy Records. This Discography includes the Contemporary Label, Good Time Jazz, California, Stereo and Society for Forgotten Music (SFM) Labels This Contemporary Label discography was compiled using Schwann catalogs from 1950 to 1982, Phonolog from 1963, The Complete Library of American Phonograph Recordings (1958-1968) by Jerry Osborne, The Jazz Discography Project Website (http://www.jazzdisco.org), The American Record Label Directory and Dating Guide, 1940-1959 by Galen Gart and my record collection. Tracks are listed in order they appear on the albums, when known and the double slash (//) is indication of the separation between sides. Titles listed without a double slash (//) are listed as printed in the Phono-Log or Schwann catalog New Entries listing, and the separation between side one and side two is unknown. Contemporary Label Discography 300 12 inch series: C-301 – Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All Stars Volume 1 - Howard Rumsey [1951] 2000 10 inch classical series: C 2001 George Barati Quartet, 1944 – California Quartet [195?] C 2002 - John Vincent Quartet, No. 1 in G – American Art Quartet [195?] C 2003 2500 10 inch series: C 2501 - Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All Stars Volume 2 - Howard Rumsey [1952] Comin’ Thru the Rye Bread/Taking a Chance on Love/The Big Top/The Duke You Say!/Sunset Eyes C 2502 - Henri Renaud All Stars - Henri Renaud [5/53] You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To/Mahogony Hall Stomp/Paris Je T’aime/Thou Swell/Docteur Wiggins C 2503 - Shelly Manne Volume 1 - Shelly Manne [1953] Sweets/Afrodesia/You’re My Thrill/Fugue//La Mucura/Mallets/You and the Night and the Music/Gazelle C 2504 - Dizzy In Paris - Dizzy Gillespie [12/53] Mon Homme/Toujours/C’est Comme Ca/’S Mervelleux//Fais! Gaffe/Au Pays L’oobladee/Nocturne Lunaire/J’ai Du Rythme C 2505 - Modern Sounds - Lars Gullin [1953] The Front/The Boy Next Door/North Express/Hershey Bar/The Things We Did Last Summer/You Go to My Head/Lady Fingers/Ablution C 2506 - - Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All Stars Volume 3 - Howard Rumsey [1953] Swing Shift/Out Of Somewhere/Big Girl/Viva Zapata #1//Mambo Los Feliz/Jazz Invention/Love Letters/Witch Doctor C 2507 - Mary Lou Williams Piano '53 - Mary Lou Williams [1953] They Can’t Take That Away From Me/For You/Don’t Blame Me/’Round About Midnight/Kool Bongo/Titoros/Lady Bird/Perdido Page 1 C 2508 - Barney Kessel Guitar Volume 1 - Barney Kessel [1953] Just Squeeze Me/Tenderly/Bernardo/Vicky's Dream/Salute to Charlie Christian/I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart/What is There to Say/Lullaby of Birdland C 2509 C 2510 - Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All Stars Volume 4 - Howard Rumsey [1953] Aquarium/Warm Winds/A Night in Tunisia/Albatroll/Still Life/Bags’ Groove/Hermosa Summer/Happy Town C 2511 - Shelly Manne Volume 2-New Works - Shelly Manne [1953] Divertimento For Brass and Rhythm/Alternation/Lullaby/Etude De Concert/Dimension in Thirds/Shapes, Motion, Colors C 2512 - Martial Solal Piano - Martial Solal [1953] La Chaloupie/The Champ/Ramona/Dinah//Poinciana/Farniente/Pennies from Heaven/Once in a While C 2513 - Lennie Niehaus Quintet - Lennie Niehaus Quintet [1953] Speak Low/On a Slow Boat to China/Prelude to a Kiss/A Foggy Day/Love is Here to Stay/How Long Has This Been Going On?/Barney’s Blues/64 Bars on Wilshire C 2514 - Barney Kessel Guitar Volume 2 - Barney Kessel [1953] Barney’s Blues/A Foggy Day In London/Prelude To a Kiss/4 Bars on Wilshire/Speak Low/Love Is Here to Stay/How Long Has This Been Going On/On a Slow Boat to China C 2515 - Howard Rumsey In The Solo Spotlight Volume 5 - Howard Rumsey [1954] Coop/S & B/Stan/Claude/Howard (Concerto for Doghouse)/Bud (The Whipper) C 2516 - Shelly Manne Volume 3 - Shelly Manne [1954] Flip/Autumn in New York/Pas De Trois/Three on a Row/Steeplechase/Abstract, No. 1 C 2517 - Lennie Niehaus Octet - Lennie Niehaus Octet [2/55] How About You?/Figure 8/Patti-Cake/The Way You Look Tonight/Have You Met Miss Jones?/Night Life/The Night We called It a Day/Seaside C 2518 - Shelly Manne & Russ Freeman - Shelly Manne and Russ Freeman [1955] The Sound Effects Manne/Everything Happens To Me/Billie's Bounce//With A Song In My Heart/A Slight Minority/Speak Easy C 2519 3500 mono/7500 stereo 12 Inch series: The label on this series is yellow with black printing, “CONTEMPORARY RECORDS” around the entire perimeter of the label. C3501 – Sunday Jazz a La Lighthouse - Howard Rumsey Lighthouse All Stars [1955] Four Others/Morgan Davis/Bernie’s Tune/All the Things You Are/La Soncailli/Crème de Menthe/Solitaire/Viva Zapata C 3502 – Lionel Hampton Swings the Most! - Lionel Hampton [1956] Free Press Qui/Blue Panassie//Real Crazy/I Only Have Eyes For You/ Walkin’ at the Trocadero C 3503 - Lennie Niehaus Octet No. 2 - Lennie Niehaus Octet [7/55] Rick’s Tricks/Bunko/Nice Work If You Can Get It/You and the Night and the Music/Blue Room/Love is Here to Stay/Yes, Yes, Honey/Circling the Blues/They Say It’s Wonderful/Cooling it/Rose Room/Debbie C 3504 - Howard Rumsey Lighthouse All-Stars - Howard Rumsey [1956] Sad Sack/Who’s Sleepy/Mad At the Wor.d/Long Ago and Far Away/East of the Sun/If I Should Lose You/Isn’t It Romantic/Dickie’s Dream/Prelude to a Kiss C 3505 - Hamp Hawes Trio - Hamp Hawes Trio [1956] I Got Rhythm/Feelin’ Fine/What Is This Thing Called Love/Blues The Most/Hamps’ Blues/Carioca/So In Love/Easy Living/All the Things You Are/These Foolish Things C 3506 – Gone With the Woodwind – Buddy Collette, Andre Previn, Curtis Counce [1956] Forth Dimension/Triton/Sophisticated Lady/Poly-Doodle/Perdido/Blue Moon/Dizzy Dialogue/Seismograph/Pemba/These Foolish Things Contemporary Label Discography July 15, 2011 2 Page 2 C 3507 - West Coast Sound - Shelly Manne [1956] La Mucura/Mallets/You and the Night and the Music/Sweets/Afrodesia/You’re My Thrill/Fugue/Grasshopper/Spring Is Here/You’re Getting To Be a Habit With Me/Summer Night C 3508 - Howard Rumsey Volume 3 - Howard Rumsey [1956] Swing Shift/Out of Somewhere/Big Girl/Viva Zapata/Jazz Invention/Witch Doctor/Mambo Los Feliz/Love Letters/Mexican Passport/Song Is You/Snap the Whip C 3509 - Lighthouse At Laguna Concert – Lighthouse All-Stars, Hampton Hawe’s Trio [1956] Blind Man’s Bluff/Witch Doctor No. 2/’Round About Midnight/Mood For Lighthouse/Walkin’/Ladyjean/The Champ/Casa de Luz C 3510 - Lennie Niehaus Quintets And Strings - Lennie Niehaus Quintets [1956] All the Things You Are/My Heart Stood Still/Easy Living/If I Should Lose You/More Than the Blues/Full House/Rondo/Star Eyes/Lens/Cross Walk/Troubled Waters/Just One of Those Things C 3511 - Easy Like - Barney Kessell [1956] Just Squeeze Me/Tenderly/Bernardo/I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart/Vicky’s Dream/Salute to Charlie Christian/What Is There to Say/Lullaby of Birdland/Easy Like/That’s All/April in Paris/North of the Border C 3512 - Barney Kessell Plays Standards - Barney Kessell [1956] Speak Low/Love Is Here to Stay/On a Slow Boat to China/How Long Has This Been Going On/Barney’s Blue/Foggy Day/Prelude to a Kiss/64 Bars on Wilshire/My Old Flame/Jeepers Creepers/You Stepped Out of a Dream/I Didn’t Know What Time It Was C 3513 - To Swing Or Not To Swing - Barney Kessell [1/56] Begin the Blues/Louisiana/Embraceable You/Wail Street/Indiana/Moten Swing/Midnight Sun/Contemporary Blues/Don’t Blame Me/12th Street Rag C 3514 – Duane Tatro Jazz for Moderns - Duane Tatro [1956] Backlash/Multiplicity/Turbulence/Low Clearance/Minor Incident/Dollar Day/Conversation/Easy Terms/Maybe Next Year/Folly Outpost C 3515 – This Is Hampton Hawes - Hamp Hawes Trio [1956] You and the Night and the Music/Stella By Starlight/Blues For Jacques/Yesterdays/Steeplechase/’Round About Midnight/Squeeze Me/Autumn in New York/Section Blues C 3516 - Swinging Sounds - Shelly Manne [1956] Dart Game/Bea’s Flat/Parthenia/Un Poco Loco/Bernie’s Tune/Doxie/Slan/Gem From Tiffany C 3517 - Howard Rumsey In The Solo Spotlight - Howard Rumsey [1956] Coop/Bud/S and B/Claude/Concerto For Doghouse/Stan/Funny Frank/That’s Rich/If You Are There C 3518 - Lennie Niehaus Quintet - Lennie Niehaus Quintet [1956] You Stepped Out of a Dream/Bottoms Up/I’ll Remember You/Day by Day/I’ll Take Romance/Whose Blues/Prime Rib/Inside Out/Poinciana/I Should Care/Happy Times/I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me C 3519 mono, 7007 stereo - More Swinging Sounds! - Shelly Manne [1956] Released in stereo as 7007.