A1 Earl Hines And His Orchestra Grand Piano Blues A2 Earl Hines And His Orchestra Everybody Loves My Baby A3 Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra Squatty Roo A4 Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw And His Orchestra Any Old Time B1 Lena Horne Stormy Weather B2 Harry JamesBenny Goodman And His Orchestra Peckin' B3 Bunk Johnson And His New Orleans Band When The Saints Go Marching In B4 J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding Lullaby Of Birdland
01 "Ecaroh"
02 "Cranky Spanky"
03 "Stella by Starlight"
04 "Hank's Symphony"
05 "Little Melonae"
06 "Infra-Rae"
07 "Carol's Interlude"
08 "The New Message"
Art Blakey, drums; Donald Byrd, trumpet; Hank Mobley, tenor saxophone; Horace Silver, piano; Doug Watkins, bass
Recorded April 6, May 4, 1956 at Columbia 30th Street Studio, NYC
"Sally's Tomato" (Henry Mancini)
"Sunny" (Bobby Hebb)
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Jimmy Webb)
"Wandering" (Gayle Caldwell)
"This Guy's in Love with You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
"Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
"Dreamsville" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Mancini)
"Yesterday" (Lennon–McCartney)
"Eleanor Rigby" (Lennon, McCartney)
"Ode to Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry)
Oscar Peterson – piano; Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar; Sam Jones – bass; Bobby Durham – drums
"The Outlaw"
"Melancholy Mood"
"Pyramid"
"Moon Rays"
"Safari"
"Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
(All compositions by Horace Silver except as noted in brackets)
Horace Silver - piano
Art Farmer - trumpet
Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
Teddy Kotick - bass
Louis Hayes - drums
Recorded January 13, 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
1 "Bluesville"
2 "Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Gordon, Revel)
3 "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Loesser)
4 "Nadia"
5 "Blues in the Pocket"
6 "Alone Too Long" (Fields, Schwartz)
7 "The Lope"
8 "Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Parish, Signorelli)
Sonny Red – alto saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano
Sam Jones (1–6), Paul Chambers (7, 8) – bass
Roy Brooks (1–6), Jimmy Cobb (7, 8) – drums
Recorded December 5, 1959 (#1–6), January 23, 1960 (#7, 8) at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
Cecil Taylor Quintet - Hard Driving Jazz
A1 Double Clutching (Chuck Israels)
A2 Like Someone In Love (Van Heusen - Burke)
B1 Shifting Down (Kenny Dorham)
B2 Just Friends (Klenner, Lewis)
Trumpet – Kenny Dorham
Tenor Saxophone – "Blue Train" (John Coltrane)
Piano – Cecil Taylor
Bass – Chuck Israels
Drums – Louis Hayes
"Jordu" (Duke Jordan)
"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer)
"It Could Happen to You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
"Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk)
"Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler)
"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington)
"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
"Minor Mood" (Barney Kessel)
"Nagasaki" (Harry Warren, Mort Dixon)
Barney Kessel - guitar; Ray Brown - bass; Shelly Manne - drums
Recorded March 18, 19, 1957 in LA
"Asiatic Raes" [a.k.a. "Lotus Blossom"] (Kenny Dorham)
"The Changing Scene" (Mobley)
"Karioka" (Dorham)
"A Peck a Sec" (Mobley)
"I Wished I Knew" (Bill Smith)
"Blues for Brenda" (Hubbard)
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
McCoy Tyner - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums
Recorded November 6, 1960 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
(This CD was converted to 24 bit PCM, and 2x up-sampled using an interpolative algorithm; thus the audio track is from a 24-88 source, whereas the title describes the source properly as 16-44)
Exclusively For My Friends
"At Long Last Love" (Cole Porter) – (Recorded April 24, 1964)
"Easy Walker" (Billy Taylor) – (Recorded April 24, 1964)
"Tin Tin Deo" (Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – (Recorded April 24, 1964)
"I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – (Recorded March 27, 1963)
"A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – (Recorded March 27, 1963)
"Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – (Recorded March 27, 1963)
Oscar Peterson, piano; Ray Brown, double bass; Ed Thigpen drums
Recorded March 1963, April 1964 at Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen, West Germany