"Dee Da Do"
"Mr. Wiggles"
"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye)
"Down In the Dumps"
"Well, Well"
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert)
(Compositions by Booker Ervin except as noted in brackets)
Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone; Richard Williams – trumpet; Horace Parlan – piano; George Tucker – bass; Dannie Richmond – drums
Recorded in Newark, New Jersey on November 26, 1960
A1. "Overture" (instrumental)
A2. "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward)
A3. "I Wants to Stay Here"
B1. "My Man's Gone Now" (DuBose Heyward)
B2. "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'"
B3. "Buzzard Song" (DuBose Heyward)
B4. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
C1. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Ira Gershwin)
C2. "What You Want Wid Bess?" (DuBose Heyward)
C3. "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" (DuBose Heyward)
C4. "Oh, Doctor Jesus"
D1. "Here Come de Honey Man / Crab Man / Oh, Dey's So Fresh and Fine" (DuBose Heyward)
D2. "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin Soon for New York" (Ira Gershwin)
D3. "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" (Ira Gershwin)
D4. "Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way!" (DuBose Heyward)
(All music written by George Gershwin; all lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, except as noted in brackets)
Ella Fitzgerald — vocals
Louis Armstrong — vocals, trumpet
Russell Garcia – arranger, conductor
Victor Arno, Robert Barene, Jacques Gasselin, Joseph Livoti, Dan Lube, Amerigo Marino, Erno Neufeld, Marshall Sosson, Robert Sushel, Gerald Vinci, Tibor Zelig — violins
Myron Bacon, Abraham Hochstein, Raymond Menhennick, Myron Sandler — violas
Justin Di Tullio, Kurt Reher, William Van Den Burg — cellos
Frank Beach, Buddy Childers, Cappy Lewis — trumpets
Milt Bernhart, Marshall Cram, James Henderson, Lloyd Ulyate — trombones
Vincent DeRosa – French horn
Bill Miller, Paul Smith – piano
Tony Rizzi – guitar
Joe Mondragon – double bass
Alvin Stoller – drums
Recorded August 18, 19 and October 14, 1957 in LA
Produced by Norman Granz
A1. "The Serpent's Tooth" (Take 1) Miles Davis 0:00
A2. "The Serpent's Tooth" (Take 2) Miles Davis 7:02
A3. "'Round About Midnight" Thelonious Monk 13:22
A4. "Compulsion" Miles Davis 20:28
B1. "No Line" Miles Davis 26:15
B2. "Vierd Blues" Miles Davis 31:58
B3. "In Your Own Sweet Way" Dave Brubeck 39:25
January 30, 1953 session: Miles Davis – Trumpet; Sonny Rollins – Tenor Saxophone; Charlie Parker ("Charlie Chan") – Tenor Saxophone; Walter Bishop – Piano; Percy Heath – Bass; Philly Joe Jones – Drums
March 16, 1956 session: Miles Davis – Trumpet; Sonny Rollins – Tenor Saxophone; Tommy Flanagan – Piano; Paul Chambers – Bass; Art Taylor – Drums
A1. "Nutty"
A2. "Blues Five Spot"
A3. "Let's Cool One"
B1. "In Walked Bud"
B2. "Just a Gigolo" (Irving Caesar-Leonello Casucci)
B3. "Misterioso"
(All compositions by Thelonious Monk, except as noted in brackets)
Thelonious Monk – piano; Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone; Ahmed Abdul-Malik – bass; Roy Haynes – drums
Recorded August 7, 1958 at Five Spot Café, NYC
A1. "Stuff" (Miles Davis)
A2. "Paraphernalia" (Wayne Shorter)
B1. "Black Comedy" (Tony Williams)
B2. "Country Son" (Miles Davis)
Miles Davis – trumpet, cornet on A1, B2
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano, electric piano on A1
Ron Carter – bass, electric bass on A1
Tony Williams – drums
George Benson – electric guitar on B2
Recorded January 16 (A2), May 15 (B2), 16 (A2, B1), 17 (A1), 1968 in Columbia Studio B, NYC
"All Night Long" (Kenny Burrell)
"Boo-Lu" (Hank Mobley)
"Flickers" (Mal Waldron)
"Li'l Hankie" (Hank Mobley)
Kenny Burrell – guitar
Donald Byrd – trumpet
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, flute
Mal Waldron – piano
Doug Watkins – bass
Art Taylor – drums
Recorded December 28, 1956 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
01 Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen Diggin' Diz (D. Gillespie)
02 The Charlie Parker Septet Moose The Mooche (C. Parker)
03 The Charlie Parker Septet Yardbird Suite (C. Parker)
04 The Charlie Parker Septet Ornithology (Harris, Parker)
05 The Charlie Parker Septet The Famous Alto Break (Excerpt)
06 The Charlie Parker Septet A Night In Tunisia (Gillespie, Paparelli)
07 The Charlie Parker Quintet Max Making Wax (Unknown Artista
08 The Charlie Parker Quintet Lover Man (Sherman, Davis, Ramirez)
09 The Charlie Parker Quintet The Gypsy (Reid)
10 The Howard McGhee Quintet Bebop (D. Gillespie)
11 The Charlie Parker Quartet This Is Always (Warren, Gordon)
12 The Charlie Parker Quartet Dark Shadows (S. Henry)
13 The Charlie Parker Quartet Bird's Nest (C. Parker)
14 The Charlie Parker Quartet Hot Blues (Cool Blues) (C. Parker)
15 The Charlie Parker Quartet Cool Blues (Hot Blues) (C. Parker)
16 The Charlie Parker Quartet Relaxin' At Camarillo (C. Parker)
17 The Charlie Parker Quartet Cheers (H. McGhee)
18 The Charlie Parker Quartet Carvin' The Bird (C. Parker)
19 The Charlie Parker Quartet Stupendous (C. Parker)
Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker
Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie (1), Howard McGhee (7 to 10, 16 to 19), Miles Davis (2 to 6, 16 to 19)
Tenor Saxophone – Lucky Thompson (1 to 6), Wardell Gray (16 to 19)
Guitar – Arvin Garrison (3 to 6), Barney Kessel (16 to 19)
Piano – Dodo Marmarosa (2 to 6), Erroll Garner (11 to 15), George Handy (1), Jimmy Bunn (7 to 10)
Bass – Bob Kesterson (7 to 10), Ray Brown (1), Red Callender (11 to 19), Vic McMillan (2 to 6)
Drums – Don Lamond (16 to 19), Harold "Doc" West (11 to 15), Roy Porter (2 to 10), Stan Levey (1)
Vocals – Earl Coleman (11 to 15)
Recorded at Radio Recorders Studios, Hollywood, on February 5th, 1946 (1) and March 28th, 1946 (2 to A6)
Recorded at C.P. MacGregor Studios, Hollywood, on July 29th, 1946 (7 to 10), February 19,1947 (11 to 15) and February 26, 1947 (16 to 19)
Compilation issued in Japan, 1985
A1 Jeepers Creepers (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer)
A2 A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II)
A3 Old Man Mose (Louis Armstrong, Zilner Randolph)
A4 Shadrack (Robert MacGimsey)
A5 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields)
A6 The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa Baa Baa) The Bobbenpoof Song (Pomeroy, Minnigerode, Vallee, Galloway)
B1 La Vie En Rose (Louiguy, Mack David)
B2 Someday You'll Be Sorry (Louis Armstrong)
B3 Blueberry Hill (Al Lewis, Larry Stock, Vincent Rose)
B4 On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields)
B5 (Ill Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You (Sam Theard)
B6 When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Clarence Muse, Leon Rene, Otis Rene)