1 "Slop" 2 "Diane" 3 "Song With Orange" 4 "Gunslinging Bird" 5 "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) 6 "Far Wells, Mill Valley" 7 "New Now Know How" 8 "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) 9 "Put Me in That Dungeon" (Compositions by Charles Mingus except as noted in brackets) John Handy – alto sax Booker Ervin – tenor sax Benny Golson – tenor sax (2, 3, 4, 6) Jerome Richardson – baritone sax (2, 3, 4, 6), flute (2) Richard Williams – trumpet (2, 3, 4, 6) Don Ellis – trumpet (1, 5, 8, 9) Jimmy Knepper – trombone Roland Hanna – piano (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) Nico Bunink – piano (7) Charles Mingus – bass Dannie Richmond – drums Teddy Charles – vibes (2, 3, 4, 6) Maurice Brown – cello (2, 9) Seymour Barab – cello (2, 9) Recorded November 1, 13, 1959 at CBS studio, NYC

1. "Zoltan" (Woody Shaw) 2. "Monk's Dream" (Thelonious Monk) 3. "If" (Joe Henderson) 4. "The Moontrane" (Shaw) 5. "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) 6. "Beyond All Limits" (Shaw) Larry Young – Hammond B-3 organ; Woody Shaw – trumpet; Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone; Elvin Jones – drums Recorded November 10, 1965 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio

1. "Cheese Cake" (Dexter Gordon) 2. "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) 3. "Second Balcony Jump" (Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine) 4. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) 5. "Where Are You?" (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) 6. "Three O'Clock in the Morning" (Julián Robledo, Dorothy Terriss) Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone; Sonny Clark – piano; Butch Warren – bass; Billy Higgins – drums Recorded August 27, 1962 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio

1. "Bluesville" 2. "88 Basie Street" 3. "Contractor's Blues" (Basie) 4. "The Blues Machine" 5. "Katy" 6. "Sunday at the Savoy" (Basie) (Compositions by Sammy Nestico except as noted in brackets) Count Basie – piano Sammy Nestico – conductor, arranger Sonny Cohn – flugelhorn, trumpet Bob Summers – flugelhorn, trumpet Frank Szabo – flugelhorn, trumpet Dale Carley – trumpet Jim Crawford – trumpet Bill Hughes – trombone Grover Mitchell – trombone Dennis Wilson – trombone Booty Wood – trombone Danny Turner – flute, alto saxophone Chris Woods – flute, alto saxophone Eric Dixon – flute, tenor saxophone Eric Schneider – flute, tenor saxophone Kenny Hing – tenor saxophone John Williams – baritone saxophone Joe Pass – guitar Cleveland Eaton – double bass Dennis Mackrel – drums