Generated on Sun, Oct 02, 2011
Date: March 22, 1954
Location: Capitol Melrose Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Label: Capitol
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t), Claude Williamson (p), Curtis Counce (b), Stan Levey (d)
| a. | 12504-3 | Untitled Sam Noto original #1 (Sam Noto) |
| b. | 12505-9 | Deep Purple (Mitchell Parish, Peter DeRose) |
| c. | 12506-6 | Untitled Sam Noto original #1 (Sam Noto) |
| d. | 12507-4 | With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair (Clara Edwards, Jack Lawrence) |
Michel Ruppli's Capitol Discography reports this unissued session.
Date: September 17, 1966
Location: Renaissance, Buffalo, NY
Label: [private recording]
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t), Ray Chamberlain (g), Tom Azarello (b), Al Cecchi (d)
| a. | I Can't Get Started - 6:59 (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) | |
| b. | Solar [aka Sonny] - 9:29 (Chuck Wayne) | |
| Both titles on: | Private issue CD: - — Renaissance (2001) | |
Date: September 23 & 24, 1966
Location: Renaissance, Buffalo, NY
Label: [private recording]
Sam Noto (ldr), Joe Romano (ts), Sam Noto (t), Ray Chamberlain (g), Joel DiBartolo (b), Billy Thiel (d)
| a. | 01 | Half Nelson - 7:44 (Miles Davis) |
| b. | 02 | Billie's Bounce - 6:53 (Charlie Parker) |
| c. | 03 | What A Difference A Day Makes - 11:13 (Stanley Adams, Maria Grever) |
| d. | 04 | Groovin' High - 12:24 (Dizzy Gillespie) |
| e. | 05 | What Is This Thing Called Love - 14:52 (Cole Porter) |
| f. | 06 | The Shadow Of Your Smile - 8:09 (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) |
| All titles on: | Private issue CD: - — Live At The Renaissance (2002) | |
Joe Romano (ts) on d-f.
Date: 1970
Location: Tropicana Ballroom, Las Vegas, NV
Label: [private recording]
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t)
| a. | [unknown titles] (Composer Unknown) |
Additional personnel unknown. Further investigation needed.
Date: March 2, 1975
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Label: Xanadu
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t), Barry Harris (p), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Lenny McBrowne (d)
| a. | a-01 | Fats' Flats - 4:27 (Theodore 'Fats' Navarro) |
| b. | a-02 | Lover Man - 6:49 (Roger 'Ram' Ramirez, Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman) |
| c. | a-03 | Entrance! - 4:21 (Sam Noto) |
| d. | a-04 | Make Believe - 4:02 (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) |
| e. | b-01 | Nostalgia - 6:02 (Sam Noto) |
| f. | b-02 | The Things I Love - 5:29 (Harold Barlow, Lewis Harris, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) |
| g. | b-03 | Jen-Jen - 5:58 (Sam Noto) |
| All titles on: | Xanadu LP 12": 103 — Entrance! (1975) | |
Date: December 1, 1975
Location: New York City
Label: Xanadu
Sam Noto (ldr), Joe Romano (ts), Sam Noto (t), Barry Harris (p), Sam Jones (b), Billy Higgins (d)
| a. | a-01 | Act One - 6:55 (Sam Noto) |
| b. | a-02 | I Should Care (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) |
| c. | a-02 | What Is There To Say (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) |
| d. | a-02 | You Are Too Beautiful - 7:45 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) |
| e. | a-03 | Aries - 5:47 (Sam Noto) |
| f. | b-01 | Upstate Association - 5:36 (Sam Noto) |
| g. | b-02 | Wavelength - 6:25 (Sam Noto) |
| h. | b-03 | Contact - 7:50 (Sam Noto) |
| All titles on: | Xanadu LP 12": 127 — Act One (1976) | |
b, c, d performed as medley.
Date: May 18, 1977
Location: New York City
Label: Xanadu
Sam Noto (ldr), Joe Romano (ts), Ronnie Cuber (bar), Sam Noto (t), Jimmy Rowles (p), Sam Jones (b), Freddie Waits (d)
| a. | a-01 | Quasinoto - 5:52 (Sam Noto)
Xanadu LP 12": 5001 — Four Decades Of Jazz: A Musical History Of Xanadu (1978) |
| b. | a-02 | 'Round Midnight - 5:49 (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) |
| c. | a-03 | Parley - 8:05 (Sam Noto) |
| d. | b-01 | Cross Chris - 7:07 (Sam Noto) |
| e. | b-02 | Notes To You - 7:25 (Sam Noto) |
| f. | b-03 | Conclusions - 5:37 (Sam Noto) |
| All titles on: | Xanadu LP 12": 144 — Notes To You (1977) | |
Date: October 17, 1978
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Label: Xanadu
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Most (f), Sam Noto (t), Dolo Coker (p), Monty Budwig (b), Frank Butler (d)
| a. | a-01 | Fine Wine - 6:52 (Sam Noto) |
| b. | a-02 | To Me Everything Happens - 4:50 (Sam Noto) |
| c. | a-03 | Spanish Coffee - 6:44 (Sam Noto) |
| d. | b-01 | Sunbird - 5:10 (Sam Noto) |
| e. | b-02 | Lady Arleen - 4:03 (Sam Noto) |
| f. | b-03 | Noto-riety - 6:58 (Sam Noto) |
| All titles on: | Xanadu LP 12": 168 — Noto-riety (1980) | |
Date: November 2, 1986
Location: Toronto, Canada
Label: Unisson Records
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t, fh), Neil Swainson (b)
| a. | a-01 | Beautiful Love - 3:56 (Victor Young, Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne) |
| b. | a-03 | Dance Of The Infidels - 4:57 (Bud Powell) |
| c. | b-04 | Easy Living - 6:21 (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) |
| All titles on: | Unisson Records LP 12": DDA 1007 — 2-4-5 (1988) | |
Date: November 16, 1986
Location: Toronto, Canada
Label: Unisson Records
Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t, fh), Gary Williamson (p), Steve Wallace (b), Bob McLaren (d)
| a. | a-02 | Blue Haze - 5:43 (Sam Noto) |
| b. | b-02 | I Remember Clifford - 5:05 (Benny Golson) |
| Both titles on: | Unisson Records LP 12": DDA 1007 — 2-4-5 (1988) | |
Date: June 12, 1987
Location: Toronto, Canada
Label: Unisson Records
Sam Noto (ldr), Pat La Barbera (ts), Sam Noto (t, fh), Gary Williamson (p), Steve Wallace (b), Bob McLaren (d)
| a. | a-04 | Bird's Eye View - 5:16 (Sam Noto) |
| b. | b-01 | Tunnels - 4:50 (Sam Noto) |
| c. | b-03 | Blue Bird - 2:36 (Charlie Parker) |
| d. | b-05 | Sonny Side - 5:42 (Edward 'Sonny' Stitt) |
| All titles on: | Unisson Records LP 12": DDA 1007 — 2-4-5 (1988) | |
Date: 1999
Label: Supermono
Sam Noto (ldr), Kirk MacDonald (ts), Sam Noto (t), Mark Eisenman (p), Steve Wallace (b), Bob McLaren (d)
| a. | 01 | Spring Again - 7:30 (Sam Noto) |
| b. | 02 | No Room At The Rex - 5:06 (Sam Noto) |
| c. | 03 | Reminiscing - 10:19 (Sam Noto) |
| d. | 04 | Soul Fats - 8:16 (Sam Noto) |
| e. | 05 | Now Hear This - 9:48 (Sam Noto) |
| f. | 06 | How Deep Is The Ocean - 9:27 (Irving Berlin) |
| g. | 07 | Not Me - 7:38 (Sam Noto) |
| h. | 08 | The Things I Love - 4:13 (Harold Barlow, Lewis Harris, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) |
| All titles on: | Supermono CD: 005 — Now Hear This (1999) | |
Personnel needs confirmation.