The Jam Sessions, Vol. 1
A "Jumpin' At The Woodside" (Count Basie, J. Hendricks)
B "Lo-Slo Bluze" (Jimmy Owens) 21:45
Trumpet – Cat Anderson, Jimmy Owens
Alto Saxophone – Charles McPherson
Tenor Saxophone – Buddy Tate
Organ – Milt Buckner
Piano – Roland Hanna
Bass – Charles Mingus
Drums – Alan Dawson
1 Blues Up and Down (Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt)
2 Cake
3 Diggin' It (Dexter Gordon / Eddie Jefferson)
4 Ruby, My Dear (Thelonious Monk)
5 It's Only a Paper Moon (Harold Arlen / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg / Billy Rose)
Dexter Gordon, tenor saxophone
Eddie Jefferson, vocals
Woody Shaw, trumpet
George Cables, piano
Rufus Reid, bass
Eddie Gladden, drums
Recorded at Carnegie Hall and CBS Studios, NYC
1978
Grits Bowl (Hank Crawford)
Inner City Blues / What's Going On (A. Cleveland, J. Nyxw, M. Gaye, R. Benson)
California Dreaming (J. Phillips, M. Gilliam)
First Light (Freddie Hubbard)
Esther Phillips, vocals
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Farrell, Stanley Turrentine
Alto Saxophone – Grover Washington, Jr., Hank Crawford
Flute – Hubert Laws
Vibraphone – Milt Jackson
Guitar – George Benson
Keyboards – Bob James, Deodato, Johnny Hammond
Ron Carter, acoustic Bass, electric Bass
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Airto Moreira, percussion
July 30, 1972
"Judo Mambo"
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell)
"Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg)
"Well, You Needn't" (Thelonious Monk)
"Fiddlin' the Minors"
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert)
"I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman)
Jimmy Smith – organ; Thornel Schwartz – guitar; Donald Bailey – drums
Recorded June 17, 18, 1956 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
"Las Vegas Blues" (Roy Eldridge)
"Harlem Nocturne" (Earle Hagen, Dick Rodgers)
"Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift)
"Achtung" (Illinois Jacquet)
"Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
"Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young)
Illinois Jacquet - tenor saxophone; Roy Eldridge - trumpet; Jimmy Jones - piano; Herb Ellis - guitar; Ray Brown - bass; Jo Jones - drums
Recorded October 16, 1956 at Radio Recorders, Hollywood
"Listen, Here" (Eddie Harris)
"S.K.J." (Milt Jackson)
"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser)
"The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble)
"Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson)
Milt Jackson – vibes; Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone; Monty Alexander – piano; Ray Brown – bass; Dick Berk – drums
Recorded at Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood, CA on August 1, 2, 1969