1 Nightmare - Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
2 Good-Bye - Benny Goodman And His Orchestra
3 Take The "A" Train - Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
4 Cherokee - Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra
5 Flying Home - Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra
6 When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Armstrong Orchestra & Chorus
RCA reissue box set of 7 inch 45 rpm vinyl, in the Treasury Of Immortal Performances series.
"Volga Boatmen" (Traditional)
"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington)
"How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed)
"I Just Can't See for Looking" (Nadine Robinson, Dok Stanford)
"Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" (Frank Loesser)
"Beat Out One"
"Maryam"
"It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
"Jim Love Sue"
Ahmad Jamal – piano; Israel Crosby – bass; Walter Perkins – drums
Recorded September 17, October 4, 1956 at Universal Recording, Chicago
"Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller)
"'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose)
"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts)
"Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey)
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt)
"Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans)
"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn)
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James)
"Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald)
"This Is My Last Affair" (Haven Johnson)
"Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Razaf, Waller)
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)
Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
Count Basie – piano, organ
Sonny Cohn, Al Aarons, Joe Newman, Don Rader – trumpet
Eric Dixon – flute, tenor saxophone
Frank Foster, Frank Wess – flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
Benny Powell, Urbie Green, Henry Coker, Grover Mitchell – trombone
Flip Ricard – trombone, trumpet
Marshal Royal – clarinet, alto saxophone
Freddie Green – guitar
Buddy Catlett – double bass
Sonny Payne – drums
Quincy Jones and Benny Carter – Arrangements
Recorded July 15, 16, 1963 at A & R Studios, NYC
Chambers Music / High Step: With Paul Chambers Quartet 00:00:00
Dexterity
Stablemates
Easy to Love
Visitation
John Paul Jones (aka Trane's Blues)
Eastbound
Trane's Strain
High Step
Nixon, Dixon and Yates Blues
Whims Of Chambers, Side 1: With Paul Chambers Sextet 1:00:24
Omicron
Whims of Chambers
Nita
We Six
Dear Ann
Tale of the Fingers
Just for the Love
A Blowing Session: With Johnny Griffin Septet 1:38:37
The Way You Look Tonight
Ball Bearing
All the Things You Are
Smoke Stack
(Previously Unreleased)
Smoke Stack (Alternate Take)
Sonny's Crib: With Sonny Clark Sextet 2:27:48
With a Song in My Heart
Speak Low
Come Rain or Come Shine
Sonny's Crib
News for Lulu
(Previously Unreleased)
Sonny's Crib [Alternate Take]
Speak Low [Alternate Take]
With a Song in My Heart [Alternate Take]
Introduction
"Splanky" (Neal Hefti)
"I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson)
"I Needs to Be Bee'd With" (Quincy Jones, Ernest Shelby)
"Flight of the Foo Birds" (Hefti)
"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer)
"Makin' Whoopee!" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn)
"Corner Pocket" (Freddie Green)
"One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie)
"Go Away Little Girl" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King)
"Whirly Bird" (Hefti)
"Blues for Ilene" (Eric Dixon)
"This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (Steve Allen)
"Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Andrew York)
Count Basie – piano, Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, Harry Edison – trumpet, Al Grey, Henderson Chambers, Grover Mitchell – trombone, Bill Hughes – bass trombone, Marshal Royal – alto saxophone, clarinet, Bobby Plater – alto saxophone, flute, Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone, Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone, Freddie Green – guitar, Norman Keenan – double bass, Sonny Payne – drums | Arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.
Recorded January 26-29 and February 1, 1966.
A1 D-Natural Blues (Monterey Blues) (Wes Montgomery)
A2 Lover Man (Davis, Ramirez, Sherman)
A3 June In January (Rainger, Robin)
B1 Jeannine (Duke Pearson)
B2 Angel Eyes (Brent, Dennis)
B3 Beaux Arts (Buddy Montgomery)
B4 Snowfall (Claude Thornhill)
C1 Bock To Bock (Back To Back) (Buddy Montgomery)
C2 Groove Yard (Carl Perkins)
C3 If I Should Lose You (Rainger, Robin)
C4 Delirium (Harold Land)
D1 Just For Now (Buddy Montgomery)
D2 Doujie (Wes Montgomery)
D3 Heart Strings (Milt Jackson)
D4 Remember (Irving Berlin)
Guitar – Wes Montgomery
Piano, Vibraphone – Buddy Montgomery
Bass – Monk Montgomery
Drums – Lawrence Marable (Side A), Paul Humphrey (Side B), Bobby Thomas (Side C, D)
Side A recorded Fall 1960 in San Francisco; Side B recorded Spring 1961 at The Cellar, Vancouver; Sides C, D recorded Jan 1961 in NYC
"A Kettle of Fish"
"Candlelight"
"Put On a Happy Face" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse)
"Prelude" (Benny Golson)
"Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk)
"Carry Me Home"
"Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
"Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries)
"Dig Cousin Will"
Jack McDuff - organ
Jerry Kail, Danny Stiles - trumpet
Billy Byers, Burt Collins, Tom McIntosh - trombone
Don Ashworth, Bob Northern - French horn
Red Holloway - tenor saxophone
Marvin Holliday, George Marge - baritone saxophone
George Benson - guitar
Richard Davis - bass
Joe Dukes, Mel Lewis - drums
Benny Golson - conductor, arranger