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Release Date: 1950Label: Tempo
An album of four discs released on Tempo comprised of masters leased from The Art Floral Record Shop originally recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 30, 1949.Very confusing release - the front cover references Art Floral but record labels show Tempo branding - yet inside liner notes reference the Joco label. Cover attributes the album to "Doc Evans' Dixieland Band" but individual records alternately are titled with "The 6-Alarm Six" and "Doc Evans and his Six-Alarm-Six"
The May 19, 1950 issue of Down Beat reported, "The Dixieland trumpeter [Doc Evans] is incensed over the way his band was handled on the recent Tempo release of his records. Tempo leased the masters from Art-Floral, in Northfield, Minn., and put them out on Tempo label. Evans, however, didn’t find out until he dropped into a record shop."
The Tempo pressed records that were labeled as being from "The 6-Alarm-Six" without mentioning Doc Evans' name further angered Evans who proposed a lawsuit as a result.