here is the info file from Dime
Charlie Parker Together With Woody Herman And The 3rd Herd – Mega-rare restored vinyl “Bird With The Herd 1951” – Municipal Arena, Kansas City, Missouri 1951-07-22 – speed-corrected and rejoined – A classic, one-time pairing! (mp3 sample included)
During the very early 1970’s, the record chain Sam Goody distributed many jazz bootleg releases under their own Alamac label. For this, and for getting someone at a printing plant to make unlicensed extra copies of commercial releases, Steely Dan among them), Sam Goody was busted and nearly closed. The bust didn’t help much as they went out of business a couple of years later. (A footnote: someone bought the rights to the name, and did reopen the chain sometime later, but that was a different operation).
Alamac Records product was a plain-white record label with bad printing, with no company name or address on it. The record jackets were plain text on the back, with a single-color front cover (green, brown, etc). The cover could just be text also, or it might have a photo of the artist. The material consisted mostly of privately-made air checks and of radio transcriptions. It’s believed the material in this torrent is an air check.
According the the great jazz-research site jazzdisco.org, this is the only release of this material and no known commercial labels have reissued this show. According to Philwoods.com, the record label Alamac is counted as a bootleg. Also, the posting of this torrent has been run by Dime’s Moderators in advance.
Personnel:
Roy Caton, Don Fagerquist, Johnny Macombe, Doug Mettome (tp) Jerry Dorn, Urbie Green, Fred Lewis (tb) Charlie Parker (as) Woody Herman (as, cl, cond) Dick Hafer, Bill Perkins, Kenny Pinson (ts) Sam Staff (bars) Dave McKenna (p) Lawrence “Red” Wooten (b) Sonny Igoe (d)
Setlist (run time 30 mins):
You Go To My Head
Leo The Lion, I
Cuban Holiday
The Nearness Of You
Lemon Drop
The Goof And I
Laura
Four Brothers
Leo The Lion, II
Notes from the record back cover:
A historic summit meeting of jazz took place on a scorching summer afternoon in Kansas City when Charlie Parker jined Woody Herman’s Third Herd in a series of blazing solos against the background of some of the best Herman repertoire of that period.
Herman’s great band serves really as a backdrop for the unique Parker talent and only brief spots by the leader on clarinet, and by Urbie Green on Laura, and Bill Perkins and Dick Hafer on Leo The Lion indicate the many fine talented musicians Herman had in this particular edition of the many Herds he fronted over the years.
Lineage: LP QSR 2442 ->Sound Forge ->Click and crackle removal, stereo to true mono to two channel mono-> Flac via TLH, level 6, sectors aligned and verified, FLAC integrity checked.
Enjoy!
A DoinkerTape
and then from the comments:
A SERIOUS CORRECTION TO YOUR STATEMENT:
Alamac was a two-bit label which simply copied many of the Boris Rose bootleg LPS. The Boris Rose originals were very common in NYC record stores in the early 1970’s, and could still be found new as late as 1990 from jazz dealers
“Bird Flies With The Herd” was first issued on Boris Rose’s LP on the Main-Man Label (No. 617). Rose made up a new label name almost every week. You could pick this up in almost every serious store in the Village when it came out (circa 1973). Most jazz collectors avoided the Alamac rip-offs as they were second generation copies of Boris Rose’s LPs (that he used his own master tapes)
I have the Rose LP in front of me. I know this is right, because I bought it from Boris at his apartment in NYC.
Rose manufactured hundreds of LP titles from the recording collection he made himself off of the radio.
Alamac records were very common all over the northeast USA in the mid 1970’s. Most places sold them for $2.99, and many sold them for $1.99 each. They are all second gen copies of Rose’s first pressings.
Also, the Rose LPs were true mono, and some (many?) Alamacs were reprocessed phony stereo