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Boxset / Compilation · 1976

Filed under Bop
By AL GREY

Tracklist

A1 Things Ain't What They Used To Be 3:41
A2 Open Wider Please 4:48
A3 I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good 3:15
A4 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 3:03
A5 How Come You Do Me Like You Do 2:29
A6 Bluish Grey 3:10
A7 The Elder 5:10
B1 Bewitched 3:34
B2 Kenie-Konie 6:03
B3 Bluish Grey 4:35
B4 Wild Deuce 3:18
B5 Green Dolphin Street 2:47
B7 Bantu 3:05
C1 Melba's Blues 6:40
C2 Home Fries 3:00
C3 Grey's Blues 4:54
C4 Nothing But The Truth 3:15
C5 Three-Fourth Blues 5:16
C6 Just Waiting 2:50
D1 R.B.Q. 4:45
D2 Minor On Top 6:40
D3 African Lady 4:30
D4 Hi Fly 9:25

Line-up/Musicians

Alto Saxophone – Billy Mitchell (tracks: B3 to C3)
Baritone Saxophone – Charlie Fowlkes (tracks: A1 to B2)
Bass – Art Davis (tracks: B3 to C3), Ed Jones (tracks: A1 to B2), Herman Wright (tracks: C4 to D3)
Congas – Ray Barretto (tracks: B3 to C3)
Drums – Ed Williams (tracks: C4 to D4), Jule Curtis (tracks: B3 to C3), Sonny Payne (tracks: A1 to B2)
Piano – Floyd Morris (tracks: A1 to B2,C4 to D1), Herbie Hancock (tracks: D2 to D4)
Piano, Horn [Alto] – Gene Kee (tracks: B3 to C3)
Tenor Saxophone – Billy Mitchell
Trombone – Al Grey, Bennie Powell (tracks: A1 to B2)
Trumpet – David Burns (tracks: C4 to D1), Donald Byrd (tracks: D2 to D4), Henry Boozier (tracks: B3 to C3), Joe Newman (tracks: A1 to B2)
Vibraphone – Bobby Hutcherson (tracks: C4 to D4)

About this release

Chess – 2ACMJ-409 (US)

This album contains material previously released on "The Last Of The Big Plungers" (Cadet 653) (tracks A1 to B2) recorded September 28-29, 1959; "The Al Grey-Billy Mitchell Sextet" (Cadet 689) (tracks B3 to C3) recorded live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, July 6, 1961; and "Snap Your Fingers" (Cadet 700) (tracks C4 to D1 recorded Feb. 19, 1962 and tracks D2 to D4 recorded live at Birdland in New York, January 31, 1962).

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