C&A:

As on the studio version earlier in the month, Charlie Christian begins his solo on Poor Butterfly with a modified melody line.  Although taken at a slightly slower tempo than the other version, the same six musicians seem to be even more up for this one.  Charles starts out more animated and remains so all the way to the final bar.  The biggest surprise comes with the C#7 - C7 figures in the fifth and sixth measures of his solo.  The line following that is also unusual—it’s an atypical variant of a CC lick such as the one in the same place on the first version.

This recording has only been released once—on a now out-of-print Media 7 CD which omitted the noisily-recorded first chorus containing the clarinet melody.  The issued recording starts with the 32-bar vibes solo that precedes the 8-bar guitar solo, unlike on the studio version where the second chorus was evenly split between vibes and piano.  Even though there are no studio recording time constraints, the sextet again plays only 2˝-choruses on the broadcast of the tune.