The Roost label was founded in 1949 by Arthur Faden, Bill Faden, Monty Kay and Ralph Watkins in
New York City. Shortly after founding the label, Jack Hooke and Sammy Kaye acquired the label from
the founders. In 1950 Jack Hooke purchased Sammy Kaye's interest. From 1950 until 1958 the label
was run by Jack Hooke and Teddy Reig. The output of the label was almost entirely jazz.
The label was called both Roost and Royal Roost. In August 1958, Morris Levy purchased the label and
it was combined with Roulette. The Roost name continued to be used by Roulette for some period of
time, but eventually the Roost artists were transferred to the Roulette label itself.
The Roost and Royal Roost label was first green, then blue, with silver print. "ROOST" (or 'ROYAL
ROOST") was on the perimeter of the label above the center hole. Green labels were used for the first
press runs (perhaps 250-400 copies) on the original 400 series at least up until RLP-421. Later runs
used the blue labels.
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ROYAL ROOST/ROOST ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] Contents
10 Inch 400 Series:
RLP-401 - Bud Powell Trio - Bud Powell Trio [1951]
RLP-402 - Stan Getz, Volume 1 - Stan Getz [1/50]
RLP-403 - Georgie Auld Quintet - Georgie Auld Quintet
RLP-404 - Swedish All Stars - Stan Getz
RLP-405 - James Moody in France - James Moody
RLP-406 - Jazz at Storyville - Billy Taylor [1953]
RLP-407 - Jazz at Storyville - Stan Getz [1953]
RLP-408 - New Trends - Kai Winding
RLP-409 - Taylor Made Piano - Billy Taylor
RLP-410 - Johnny Smith Quintet - Johnny Smith Quintet [1953]
RLP-411 - Jazz at Storyville, Volume 2 - Stan Getz
RLP-412 - Bud Powell Trio, Volume 2 - Bud Powell Trio
RLP-413 - Johnny Smith Quintet, Volume 2 - Johnny Smith Quintet [10/54]
RLP-414 - Dizzy Over Paris - Dizzy Gillespie
RLP-415 - Arrangements by Richards - Sonny Stitt
RLP-416 - Originalee - Lee Konitz
RLP-417 - Chamber Music - Stan Getz
RLP-418 - Jazz at the Hi-Ha! - Sonny Stitt
RLP-419 - Piano Mambo - Eddie Bonnemere
RLP-420 - Jazz at Storyville, Volume 3 - Stan Getz
RLP-421 - In a Mellow Mood - Johnny Smith Quintet [1/55]
RLP-422 - Goodies - Eddie Davis
RLP-423 - Split Kick - Stan Getz
RLP-424 - In A Sentimental Mood - Johnny Smith [1954]
12 Inch 1200 Series:
RST-1201 - Roost 5th Anniversary Album - Various Artists [2/55]
RST-1202 -
RST-1203 - Battle of Birdland - Eddie Davis & Sonny Stitt [1955] Marchin'/S.O.S./Jaws/I
Can't Get Started
12 Inch 2200 Series:
RST-2201 - Johnny Smith Quartet Plays Jimmy Van Heusen - Johnny Smith Quartet
[8/55]
RST-2202 - Tony Aless and His Long Island Suite - Tony Aless [1955]
Levittown/Corona/Aqueduct/Riverhead/Valley Stream/Greenport/Fire Island/Massapequa
RST-2203 - Johnny Smith Quartet - Johnny Smith Quartet [1955] Django/Wait 'Till You
See Her/Little Girl Blue/More Bass/Un Poco Loco/Spring Is Here/Easy Living/0500 Blues/Old Girl/Tired
Blood
RST-2204 - Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements by Quincy Jones - Sonny Stitt [1955] My
Funny Valentine/Sonny's Bunny/Come Rain Or Come Shine/Love Walked In/If You Could See Me
Now/Quince/Star Dust/Lover
RST-2205 - Seldon Powell - Seldon Powell [1955] Go First Class/Why Was I Born/Love
Is Just Around The Corner/Someone To Watch Over Me/Count Fleet/Autumn Nocturne/Swingsville
Ohio/Summertime
RST-2206 - Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith - Johnny Smith Quartet & Beverly
Kenney [2/56] Surrey With The Fringe On Top/'Tis Autumn/Looking For A Boy/I'll Know My
Love/Destination Moon/Ball And Chain/Almost Like Being In Love/Stairway To The Stars/There Will
Never Be Another You/This Little Town Is Paris/Moe's Blues/Snuggled On Your Shoulder
RST-2207 - The Sound - Stan Getz Quintet [1956] Thou Swell/Song Is You/Mosquito
Knees/Pennies From Heaven/Movfe/Parker 51
RST-2208 - Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt [1956] There'll Never Be Another You/The
Nearness Of You/Biscuit Mix/Yesterdays/Afterwards/If I Should Lose You/Blues For Bobby/My
Melancholy Baby
RST-2209 - Stan Getz Quintet at Storyville - Stan Getz Quintet [1956] Reissue of
RST-2207. Thou Swell/Song is You/Mosquito Knees/Pennies From Heaven/Move/Parker 51
RST-2210 - All Star Sextet - Charlie Parker [1956] Air Conditioning/Don't Blame Me/Bird
Feathers/Embraceable You/Dewey Square/Scrapple From The Apple/Quasimodo/Out Of
Nowhere/Crazeology/My Old Flame/Klactoveedsedtene/Bongo Bop
RST-2211 - Moonlight in Vermont - Johnny Smith with Stan Getz [1956] Moonlight In
Vermont/Tabu/Tenderly/Cavu/Ghost Of A Chance/Jaguar/Stars Fell On Alabama/Where Or When/I'll Be
Around/Cherokee/Yesterdays/Vilia
RST-2212 - Come Swing with Me - Beverly Kenney & Ralph Burns [1956] Give Me The
Simple Life/I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry/The Trolley Song/Violets For My Furs/This Can't Be
Love/Scarlet Ribbons//If I Were A Bell/Why Try To Change Me Know/Swinging On A Star/You Go To My
Head/It Ain't Necessarily So/You Make Me Feel So Young
RST-2213 - Giants of the Piano - Art Tatum & Erroll Garner [1956] Flying Home - Art
Tatum/On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Art Tatum/I Know That You Know - Art Tatum/Dark Eyes - Art
Tatum/Body And Soul - Art Tatum/Pastel - Erroll Garner/Trio - Erroll Garner/Don't Worry About Me -
Erroll Garner/Frankie And Johnny - Erroll Garner/Play Piano Play - Erroll Garner/Love For Sale - Erroll
Garner
RST-2214 - Concert in Paris - Dizzy Gillespie [1956] Champ/They Can't Take That Away
From Me/My Man/Birks Works/Good Bait/I Can't Get Started/I've Got The Bluest Blues/Paris Swing/Oh
Lady Be Good
RST-2215 - Moods - Johnny Smith
RST-2216 - New Quartet - Johnny Smith [1956] It Never Entered My Mind/Samba/Black
Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair/Pawn Ticket/S'Wonderful/You'd Be So Nice To Come Home
To/Blue Lights/Montage/Bag's Groove/'Round About Midnight
RST-2217 - Ruth Price Sings - Ruth Price with Johnny Smith [1956] I'm Nobody's
Baby/It Never Entered My Mind/Wonderful Guy/Until The Real Thing Comes Along/This Heart Of
Mine/When You Wish Upon A Star//Time After Time/Goodbye/Back In Your Own Backyard/I'll Be Seeing
You/Run, Little Rain Drop, Run/Sleeping Bee
RST-2218 - Beverly Kenney, Jimmy Jones and Basie-Ites - Beverly Kenney, Jimmy Jones &
Basie-Ites [4/57] Nobody Else But Me/The More I See You/Old Buttermilk Sky/I Never Has Seen
Snow/A Fine Romance/Who Cares What People Say//Makin' Whoopee/The Charm Of You/Isn't This A
Lovely Day/Mairzy Doats/My Kind Of Love/Can't Get Out Of This Mood
RST-2219 - 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds - Sonny Stitt [1956]
RST-2220 - The Seldon Powell Sextet - Seldon Powell Sextet [1956] The Sextet is:
Seldon Powell - Tenor, Aaron Bell - Bass, Jimmy Cleveland - Trombone, "Hac" Hanna - Piano, Freddie
Green - Guitar, Osie Johnson - Drums (*Gus Johnson - Drums). Woodyn' You/She's Funny That
Way/*Lolly Gag/Missy's Melody/I'll Close My Eyes/11th Hour Blues//*Undecided/A Flower Is A Lonesome
Thing/It's A Cryin' Shame/*Sleepy Time Down South/Button Nose/*Biscuit for Duncan
RST-2221 - Seldon Powell Featuring Jimmy Cleveland - Seldon Powell
RST-2222 - Taylor Made Piano - Billy Taylor
RST-2223 - Johnny Smith Foursome, Volume 1 - Johnny Smith [9/57] Hello Young
Lovers/Love
For Sale/Maid With The Flaxen Hair/Love Letters/Lover/Tickletoe/Good Bye/Body And Soul/Boy Next
Door/Potter's Luck/Autumn Nocturne/Band Aid
RST-2224 - Bud Powell with Roach and Russell - Bud Powell, Max Roach & Curley
Russell [1957]
RST-2225 - Stan Getz at Storyville, Volume 2 - Stan Getz [1957] Hershey
Bar/Rubberneck/Signal Everything Happens to Me/Jumping With Symphony Sid/Yesterdays/Budo
RST-2226 - Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers - Sonny Stitt [1957] Best Things In Life Are
Free/Engos/Bloos/It Might As Well Be Spring/Body And Soul/Cherokee/I Didn't Know What Time It
Was/People
Will Say We're In Love/Bloosey/Birds' Eye
RST-2227 - Eddie Davis Trio - Eddie Davis [1957] Reissue of RST-422
RST-2228 - Johnny Smith Foursome, Volume 2 - Johnny Smith [1957] Angel Eyes/Deep
Night/These Foolish Things/East Of The Sun/There's A Small Hotel/Laura/Tea For Two/I'm Getting
Sentimental
Over You/Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
RST-2229 - Three Bones and a Quill - Gene Quill
RST-2230 - Saxophones of Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt [1958] Happy Faces/Am I Blue/I'll
Be Seeing You/When You're Smiling/In A Little Spanish Town/Them There Eyes/Back In Your Own
Back Yard/Foot Tapper/Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Shadow Waltz/Wind Up
RST-2231 - Selections from the Flower Drum Song - Johnny Smith [2/59] You Are
Beautiful/I Enjoy Being A Girl/Sunday/Hundred Million Miracles/Grant Avenue/Love Look Away/Like A
God/Finale
RST-2232 - And I Thought About You - Johnny Hartman [1959]
RST-2233 - Easy Listening - Johnny Smith [1959] When I Fall In Love/It Might As Well
Be Spring/I Didn't Know What Time It Was/Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair/Like Someone In
Love/You Don't Know What Love Is/Isn't It Romantic/Foggy Day/I Remember The Corn Fields/Scarlet
Ribbons/People Will Say We're In Love/Nearness of You
RST-2234 - Diz 'N' Bird in Concert - Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker [1959] Night In
Tunisia, Parts 1 & 2/Dizzy Atmosphere/Groovin' High, Parts 1 & 2/Confirmation/Swing Low Sweet
Cadillac/Tin Tin Deo/Ooh Shoobee Doobee/School Days
RST-2235 - Little Bit of Stitt - Sonny Stitt [1959] When The Red Red Robin/For All We
Know/I'm Confessin' That I Love You/Cocktails For Two/Star Eyes/On A Slow Boat To China/Laura/J.B.
Blues/Don't Take Your Love From Me/After The Late Late Show
RST-2236 - Piano Bon Bons - Eddie Bonnemere [1959]
RST-2237 - Johnny Smith Favorites - Johnny Smith [1959] Moonlight In Vermont/My
Funny Valentine/Little Girl Blue/My One And Only Love/Jimmy Van Heusen Medley
RST-2238 - Designed for You - Johnny Smith [12/59] Fools Rush In/I'll Remember
Clifford/The Lady Is A Tramp/There Will Never Be Another You/Autumn Leaves/Mood
Indigo/Sentimental Journey/Three Little Words/My Romance/Sometimes I'm Happy/I'll Take Romance
RST-2239 - Dear Little Sweetheart - Johnny Smith [1960] My Dear Little
Sweetheart/Indian Summer/Softly As In A Morning Sunrise/All The Things You Are/It's So Peaceful In
The Country/Once In A While/Flamingo/Spring Is Here/Violets For Her Furs/It Never Entered My Mind
RST-2240 - Sonny Side of Stitt - Sonny Stitt [1960] Skylark/Don't Worry 'Bout Me/I'll
Remember April/Day By Day/Red Top/Moonray/Old Fashioned Blues/I Never Knew/Hitsburg
RST-2241 - The Sound of Memory - Eddie Bonnemere [1960]
RST-2242 - Guitar and Strings - Johnny Smith [1960] Things We Did Last Summer/Inch
Worm/Yesterdays/What Is There To Say/Stormy Weather/Where Or When/Have You Forgotten So
Soon/Golden Earrings/Deep Purple
RST-2243 - Johnny Smith Plus The Trio - Johnny Smith [1960] I Got It Bad (And That
Ain't Good)/Let's Fall In Love/I Can't Get Started/You Took Advantage Of Me/Some Of These Days/Over
The Rainbow/Out Of Nowhere/Prelude To A Kiss/Un Poco Loco/Hippo The Sentimental Hippy/It's You
Or No One
RST-2244 - Stittsville - Sonny Stitt [1960] Angel Eyes/It Depends on You/Stormy
Thursday/Embraceable You/It Could Happen to You//But Not for Me/Memories of You/I Cried for You
(Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over me)/Bright as Snow/Spinning
RST-2245 - Sonny Side Up - Sonny Stitt [1961]
RST-2246 - The Sound of the Guitar Smith - Johnny Smith [1961] Come Rain Or Come
Shine/Gypsy In My Soul/Embraceable You/Misty/As Long As There's Music/'Round Midnight/This Can't
Be Love/Blues Chorale/Prelude
RST-2247 - Feelin's - Sonny Stitt [1962] Sole Mio/Feelin's/Nightmare/S'Posin'/Look
Up/Goodnight Ladies/If I Should Lose You/Hollerin' The Blues/Stretch Pants
RST-2248 - Man with the Blue Guitar - Johnny Smith [1962] My Romance/Little Girl
Blue/Pavanne/Wait 'Til You See Her/Prelude/Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair/Maid With The
Flaxen Hair/Shenandoah/Green Leaves Of Summer/My Funny Valentine/Dancing In The Dark/Old
Folks/I Love You Porgy
RST-2249 - The Greatest of Stan Getz - Stan Getz [1963]
RST-2250 - Johnny Smith Plays Jimmy Van Heusen - Johnny Smith [1963]
RST-2251 - Moonlight in Vermont - Stan Getz & Johnny Smith [1963]
RST-2252 - Sonny Stitt in Orbit - Sonny Stitt [1963] No Cal/Six-O-Seven Blues/Beware,
Rocks Comin' Down//Corn Flakes/Eye Ball/Saganaw
RST-2253 - Sonny Stitt Goes Latin - Sonny Stitt [1964]
RST-2254 - Guitar World of Johnny Smith - Johnny Smith [1964]
RST-2255 - Modern World - Stan Getz [1964]
RST-2256 - Jazz World - Art Tatum, Billy Taylor, & Erroll Garner [1964]
RST-2257 - The World of Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker [1964]
RST-2258 - Getz Age - Stan Getz [1964]
RST-2259 - Reminiscing - Johnny Smith [1965]
RST-2260 - El Latino - Terry Gibbs [1964]
RST-2261 - Primitivo - Arsenio Rodriguez [1965]
RST-2262 - Sax Expressions - Sonny Stitt
RST-2263 - Are You Ready for This? - Rich, Bellson & Kawaguchi
Miscellaneous Issue:
OJ1 - Operation Jazz - Various Artists
Thanks to Henry Schmidt, Marcel Michels, Chris Sheridan, Samuel Clarke, Piotr Michalowski, and
Jonathan Kutler.
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