Boxset / Compilation · 1997
Tracklist
The Quartet Sessions
1-1 On The Alamo (Alternate Take)
1-2 The Alamo
1-3 Gone With The Wind (Gone With The Wind)
1-4 Yesterdays
1-5 Sweetie Pie
1-6 You Go To My Head
1-7 Hershey Bar
1-8 Tootsie Roll
1-9 Strike Up The Band
1-10 Imagination (Alternate Take)
1-11 Imagination
1-12 For Stompers Only
1-13 Navy Blue (Alternate Take)
1-14 Out Of Nowhere
1-15 'S Wonderful
1-16 Penny
1-17 Split Kick (Alternate Take)
1-18 Split Kick
1-19 It Might As Well Be Spring (Alternate Take)
1-20 It Might As Well Be Spring
1-21 The Best Thing For You
The Quintet Live Sessions
1-22 Signal (Alternate Take)
1-23 Budo (Alternate Take)
The Quintet Live Sessions
2-1 Thou Swell
2-2 The Song Is You
2-3 Mosquito Knees
2-4 Pennies From Heaven
2-5 Move
2-6 Parker 51
2-7 Hershey Bar
2-8 Rubberneck
2-9 Signal
2-10 Everything Happens To Me
2-11 Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
2-12 Yesterdays
2-13 Budo
2-14 Wild Wood
The Quintet Studio Sessions
3-1 Melody Express
3-2 Yvette
3-3 Potter's Luck
3-4 The Song Is You
3-5 Wild Wood
3-6 Lullaby Of Birdland
3-7 Autumn Leaves (Instrumental Version)
3-8 Autumn Leaves (Alternate Take)
3-9 Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread
3-10 Fools Rush In (Alternate Take)
3-11 These Foolish Things
The Johnny Smith Sessions
3-12 Where Or When
3-13 Tabu
3-14 Moonlight In Vermont
3-15 Jaguar
3-16 Sometimes I'm Happy
3-17 Stars Fell On Alabama
3-18 Nice Work If You Can Get It
3-19 Tenderly
The Basie Live Performances
3-20 Little Pony
3-21 Easy Living
3-22 Nails
Line-up/Musicians
Bass – Bill Crow (tracks: 3-6 to 3-11), Bob Carter (2) (tracks: 3-16 to 3-19), Eddie Jones (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Eddie Safranski (tracks: 3-12 to 3-15), Joe Gallaway (tracks: 1-8 to 1-21), Leonard Gaskin (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5), Teddy Kotick (tracks: 1-22, 1-23, 2-1 to 2-14), Tommy Potter (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7)
Drums – Don Lamond (tracks: 3-12 to 3-15), Frank Isola (tracks: 3-6 to 3-11), Gus Johnson (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Morey Feld (tracks: 3-16 to 3-19), Roy Haynes (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 3-1 to 3-5), Tiny Kahn (tracks: 1-22, 1-23, 2-1 to 2-14), Walter Bolden (tracks: 1-8 to 1-21)
Guitar – Freddie Green (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Jimmy Raney (tracks: 1-22, 1-23, 2-1 to 2-14, 3-1 to 3-11), Johnny Smith (tracks: 3-12 to 3-19)
Piano – Al Haig (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 1-22, 1-23, 2-1 to 2-14), Count Basie (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Duke Jordan (tracks: 3-6 to 3-11), Horace Silver (tracks: 1-8 to 1-21, 3-1 to 3-5), Sanford Gold (tracks: 3-12 to 3-19)
Reeds – Charles Fowlkes* (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Ernie Wilkins (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Frank Foster (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Frank Wess (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Marshall Royal (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22)
Saxophone – Stan Getz
Trombone – Benny Powell (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Bill Hughes (2) (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Henry Coker (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22)
Trumpet – Joe Newman (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Reunald Jones (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Thad Jones (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22), Wendell Culley (tracks: 3-20 to 3-22)
About this release
Roost/Blue Note/EMI – 7243 8 59622 2 6 (Europe)
3CD in cardboard box + leaflet
Recorded 1950 to 1954
Thanks to snobb for the addition