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you mean Monday May 19? >>> bcor@xxxxxxx 05/12/03 05:40PM >>> Dial Records For this month's ARSC program discographer Geoffrey Wheeler will discuss his forthcoming discography of the Dial Record Label. Best known for releasing the some of Charlie Parker's best studio recordings, Dial Records also featured other important bebop greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Howard McGhee, Dodo Marmaros, Dextor Gordon, James Moody, Erroll Garner, and Don Lanphere. The label also reissued recordings by such figures in "historical jazz" as Sidney Bechet, Earl Hines, and Willie "the Lion" Smith. Mr. Wheeler will discuss Ross Russell's founding of this important independent label and detail its move to New York and later development. Monday, May 12, 2002 7:00 P.M. Library of Congress Mary Pickford Theater Third Floor, James Madison Building First & Independence Ave., S.E. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Details: Bryan Cornell (202) 707-8466 |