Boxset / Compilation · 1987
Tracklist
1 Drummin' Man 3:13
2 Swedish Schnapps 3:07
3 Paradise 3:38
4 Just You, Just Me 6:30
5 Gene's Solo Flight 4:30
6 Disc Jockey Jump 3:06
7 'S Wonderful 6:19
8 Let Me Off Uptown 3:21
9 Hippdeebip 4:13
10 Imagination 4:46
11 Who's Rhythm 3:58
12 Mulligan Stew 3:58
13 Gene's Blues 7:42
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone – Hal McKusick (tracks: 1, 8), Phil Woods (tracks: 6, 12), Sam Marowitz (tracks: 1, 6, 8, 12), Willie M. Smith (tracks: 3)
Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank (tracks: 1, 6, 8, 12)
Bass – Israel Crosby (tracks: 3), Jim Gannon (tracks: 6, 12), John Drew (tracks: 1, 7 to 9), Ray Brown (tracks: 2, 10, 11, 13), Red Callender (tracks: 4), Wendell Marshall (tracks: 5)
Drums – Gene Krupa
Guitar – Barry Galbraith (tracks: 1, 6, 8, 12), Herb Ellis (tracks: 2, 10, 13), Steve Jordan (3) (tracks: 3)
Piano – Bobby Scott (tracks: 7, 9), Dave McKenna (tracks: 1, 5, 8), Hank Jones (tracks: 12), Oscar Peterson (tracks: 13), Teddy Wilson (tracks: 2 to 4, 10, 11)
Tenor Saxophone – Aaron Sachs (tracks: 1, 8), Al Cohn (tracks: 6), Ben Webster (tracks: 2, 10), Eddie Wasserman (tracks: 6, 12), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (tracks: 11), Eddie Shu (tracks: 1, 5, 7 to 9), Flip Phillips (tracks: 13), Frank Socolow (tracks: 12), Illinois Jacquet (tracks: 13)
Trombone – Bill Harris (tracks: 2, 10, 11), Billy Byers (tracks: 12), Eddie Bert (tracks: 12), Frank Rehak (tracks: 6), Fred Ohms (tracks: 1, 8), J.J. Johnson (tracks: 1, 8), Jimmy Cleveland (tracks: 1, 8, 12), Kai Winding (tracks: 1, 6, 8, 12), Urbie Green (tracks: 6), Willie Dennis (tracks: 6)
Trumpet – Al Derisi (tracks: 6, 12), Al Stewart (tracks: 6, 12), Bernie Glow (tracks: 1, 8), Charlie Shavers (tracks: 2, 3, 10, 11), Dizzy Gillespie (tracks: 13), Doc Severinsen (tracks: 6, 12), Ernie Royal (tracks: 6, 12), Joe Ferrante (tracks: 1, 8), Irwin "Marky" Markowitz (tracks: 6), Nick Travis (tracks: 1, 8), Roy Eldridge (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Vibraphone – Lionel Hampton (tracks: 4)
Vocals – Anita O'Day (tracks: 1, 8), Roy Eldridge (tracks: 8)
About this release
Verve Records – 833 286-2 (US)
Reissued in Italy as "The Drums"(EmArcy – 833 286-2,2003)
#1, 8: 1956
#2, 3, 10, 11: 1953
#4, 7, 13: 1955
#5: 1957 #6, 12: 1958
#9: 1954
Thanks to snobb for the addition