Esquire Jazz Concert 1946

The Curse of the Completist strikes again! I bought the LP Hooray for Esquire Jazz Concert this morning from a certain Internet auction house. Most Ellington collectors will be aware of the Esquire Jazz Concert in which Ellington participated in 1945 with, amongst others, Louis Armstrong. Existence of the 1946 concert was news to me. The concert was broadcast from The Ritz Theatre, New York City on Wednesday, 16 January.

From the ever reliable Ellingtonia, the details are:

Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson, Francis Williams, Bernard Flood(t); Lawrence Brown, Wilbur De Paris, Claude Jones(tb); Jimmy
Hamilton(cl,ts); Otto Hardwicke(cl,as); Johnny Hodges(as); Al Sears(ts); Harry Carney(cl,as,bar); Duke Ellington(p); Fred Guy(g); Oscar Pettiford(sb); Sonny Greer(d,ch)
46011601		Take The "A" Train (theme)	unissued
46011602		Take The "A" Train	Sdi 125
46011603		Honeysuckle Rose	Sdi 125
46011604		Jam-A-Ditty	Sdi 125
46011605		Esquire Swank	VD 617, Sdi 125
Add Francis Wayne(v)
46011606		I'm Checking Out Goombye - vFWa	Sdi 125

You can see an advertisement for the concert in Google Books here. And here is the complete concert.