On 19 August 1946, the day after performing the piece together on a "Columbia Workshop" national broadcast, Herman and Stravinsky recorded the concerto in Hollywood, California.. The recording was first released on LP in 1951, Columbia ML 4398 . Stravinsky felt that the jazz musicians would have a hard time with the various time signatures, as this was more than a decade before Dave Brubeck started using unusual time signatures in jazz performance and virtually all jazz was played in .Lamb, Evelyn. "Uncommon Time: What Makes Dave Brubeck's Unorthodox Jazz Stylings So Appealing?", Scientific American, December 11, 2012. Saxophonist Flip Phillips said that "during the rehearsal [...] there was a passage I had to play there and I was playing it soft, and Stravinsky said, 'Play it, here I am!' and I blew it louder and he threw me a kiss!'" In the late 1950s Herman made a second recording, in stereo, in the Belock Recording Studio at Bayside New York,Liner notes of the LP re-release by the Everest Recording Group Inc. in January 1959 as SDBR 3009. The recording was originally released on LP in 1958 as Everest LPBR 6009 and was released on CD in 1997 by Everest, EVC 9049. calling it a "very delicate and a very sad piece".
