1 "Tenor Madness"
2 "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan)
3 "Paul's Pal"
4 "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Debussy)
5 "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (Rodgers, Hart)
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone; John Coltrane – tenor saxophone (on 1); Red Garland – piano; Paul Chambers – double bass; Philly Joe Jones – drums
Recorded May 24, 1956 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
"Five Spot After Dark" (Benny Golson)
"Undecided" (Sydney Robin, Charlie Shavers)
"Blues-ette"
"Minor Vamp" (Golson)
"Love Your Spell Is Everywhere" (Edmund Goulding, Elsie Janis)
"Twelve-Inch"
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Benny Golson - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Al Harewood - drums
Recorded May 21, 1959 at Rudy Van Gelder studio
"An Oscar for Oscar" (Take 1) (Dorham)
"Ruby, My Dear" (Take 2) (Monk)
"Be My Love" (Take 2) (Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn)
"Ruby, My Dear" (Take 1)
"Osmosis" (Osie Johnson)
"I Love You" (Porter)
"Darn That Dream" (Take 1) (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange)
"Darn That Dream" (Take 2)
"I Love You" (Take 2)
"Chicago Blues" (Biese, Altieri)
"Lonesome Lover Blues" (Jackson, Lenoir)
Kenny Dorham - trumpet, vocal, Jimmy Heath - saxophones, Walter Bishop - piano, Percy Heath - double bass, Kenny Clarke - drums
Recorded December 15, 1953 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio; "Chicago Blues", "Lonesome Lover Blues" October 21, 1953 in NYC
(Note: CD was converted to 24bit PCM, and 2x up-sampled using an interpolative algorithm; thus the stream is of a 24-88 file, whereas the title describes the source properly as 16-44)
"Whap!" (McDuff)
"I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll)
"The Honeydripper" (Joe Liggins)
"Dink's Blues" (McDuff)
"Mr. Lucky" (Henry Mancini)
"Blues and Tonic" (McDuff)
Jack McDuff - organ; Jimmy Forrest - tenor saxophone; Grant Green - guitar; Ben Dixon - drums
Recorded February 3, 1961 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
(Note: CD was converted to 24bit PCM, and 2x up-sampled using an interpolative algorithm; thus the stream is of a 24-88 file, whereas the title describes the source properly as 16-44)
1 "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen)
2 "I Love You" (Cole Porter)
3 "Trane's Slo Blues" (Coltrane)
4 "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) 16:28
5 "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre)
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
On 1-3: Earl May – bass; Art Taylor – drums
On 4, 5: Donald Byrd – trumpet (4); Red Garland – piano; Paul Chambers – bass; Louis Hayes – drums (4); Albert Heath – drums (5)
Recorded May 31 (5), August 16 (1-3), 1957, January 10 (4), 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
1 "Birks' Works" (Dizzy Gillespie)
2 "Hallelujah" (Clifford Grey, Leo Robin, Vincent Youmans)
3 "Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
4 "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman)
5 "36-23-36" (Kenny Burrell)
6 "Swingin'" (Clifford Brown)
7 "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman)
Kenny Burrell - guitar, Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone (on 1, 3, 6), Bobby Timmons (on 1, 3, 4, 6) Roland Hanna (on 2, 5, 7) - piano, Ben Tucker - bass, Art Blakey - drums
Recorded August 25, 1959, NYC
"Work Song" (Nat Adderley)
"It Happened in Monterey" (Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne)
"My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood)
"Tricrotism" (Oscar Pettiford)
"Thumbstring" (Ray Brown)
"Cannon Bilt" (Brown)
"Two for the Blues" (Neal Hefti, Jon Hendricks)
"Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer)
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (Robert Wright, George Forrest)
Ray Brown – double bass, cello
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Budd Johnson, Earle Warren, Jerome Richardson, Seldon Powell, Yusef Lateef – woodwind
Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman, Nat Adderley – trumpet
Britt Woodman, Jimmy Cleveland, Melba Liston, Paul Faulise – trombone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Sam Jones – double bass
Osie Johnson – drums
Recorded January 22, 23 1962 in New York City
(Note: CD was converted to 24bit PCM, and 2x upsampled using an interpolative algorithm; thus the stream is of a 24-88 file, whereas the title describes the source properly as 16-44)
"The Sidewinder"
"Totem Pole"
"Gary's Notebook"
"Boy, What a Night"
"Hocus Pocus"
Lee Morgan – trumpet; Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone; Barry Harris – piano; Bob Cranshaw – double bass; Billy Higgins – drums
Recorded September December 21, 1963 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
01 "Bula" - 4:44
02 "Silk Lace" - 5:18
03 "Asphalt Jungle" - 4:05
04 "Star-Crossed Lovers" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 4:19
05 "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) - 3:47
06 "E.S.P." - 5:52
07 "Guitar Amour" - 7:35
08 "The Shepherd (First Concept)" - 5:33
09 "The Shepherd (Second Concept)" - 6:35
10 "Kinda Dukish" - 4:21
(All compositions by Duke Ellington except as noted in brackets)
Duke Ellington – piano
Cat Anderson, Roy Burrowes, Cootie Williams - trumpet
Ray Nance - trumpet, violin
Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper - trombone
Chuck Connors - bass trombone
Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Ernie Shephard, John Lamb (8-10) - bass
Sam Woodyard - drums
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on February 6 or 7, 1963 (1-3, 7), in Milan, Italy on February 21, 1963 (4-6) and Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France on July 27, 1966 (8-10)