CD1
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
1. Come Rain Or Come Shine (H. Arlen, J. Mercer)
2. Autumn Leaves (J. Mercer, J. Kosma, J. Prevert)
3. Witchcraft (C. Coleman, C. Leigh)
4. When I Fall In Love (V. Young, E. Heyman)
5. Peri‘s Scope (B. Evans)
6. What Is This Thing Called Love (C. Porter)
7. Spring Is Here (R. Rodgers, L. Hart)
8. Someday My Prince Will Come (F. Churchill, L. Morey)
9. Blue In Green (M. Davis, B. Evans)
Bill Evans (piano), Scott LaFaro (bass), Paul Motian (drums)
Recorded in New York City on December 28, 1959
Duke Ellington – The Duke Plays Ellington
10. In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington, Mills, Manny Kurtz)
11. Things Ain‘t What They Used to Be (Mercer Ellington)
12. Reflections in D
13. Who Knows?
14. Melancholia
15. All Too Soon (Ellington, Carl Sigman)
16. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills)
17. B Sharp Blues
18. Passion Flower (Billy Strayhorn)
19. Janet
20. Retrospection
21. Dancers in Love
All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated
Duke Ellington (piano), Wendell Marshall (bass), Butch Ballard (drums)
Recorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California, on April 13 & April 14
CD2
Lennie Tristano – Tristano
1. Line Up
2. Requiem
3. Turkish Mambo
4. East Thirty-Second
5. These Foolish Things
(Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey)
6. You Go to My Head (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
7. If I Had You (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro)
8. I Don‘t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You“
(Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young)
9. All the Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
All songs composed by Lennie Tristano except as indicated
1-4: Lennie Tristano (piano), Peter Ind (bass), Jeff Morton (drums)
Recorded at Lennie Tristano‘s home studio, New York, 1954-1955
5-9: Lennie Tristano (piano), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Gene Ramey
(bass), Art Taylor (drums) Recorded at The Sing-Song Room, Confucius
Restaurant, New York, June 11, 1955
Thelonious Monk – Piano Solo
10. Round About Midnight
11. Reflections
12. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Jerome Kern)
13. Well You Needn‘t
14. Portrait Of An Ermite
15. Manganése
16. Eronel
17. Off Minor
All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated
Thelonious Monk (piano)
Recorded in Paris on June 7, 1954
CD3
Phineas Newborn – Fabulous Phineas
1. Sugar Ray
2. What‘s New (Burke/ Haggart)
3. Pamela
4. Forty-Five Degree Angle (Best)
5. No Moon At All (Evans/ Mann)
6. I‘ll Remember April (Raye/ DePaul)
7. Cherokee (Noble)
8. Back Home
Composed by Phineas Newborn, Jr. except as indicated
Phineas Newborn Jr. (piano), Calvin Newborn (guitar), George Joyner (bass),
Denzil Best (drums)
Recorded in New York City, March 28 & April 3, 1958
Mary Lou Williams – Plays In London
1. Titoros (Davis)
2. They Can’t Take That Away From Me (Gershwin/ Gershwin)
3. Round About Midnight (Monk)
4. Perdido (Tizol)
5. Kool Bongo (Williams)
6. For You (Dubin/ Burke)
7. Don’t Blame Me (Fields/ McHugh)
8. Lady Bird (Dameron)
Mary Lou Williams (piano), Ken Nipper (bass), Allan Ganley (drums),
Tony Scott (bongos)
Recorded in London Jan 22, 1953
CD4
Bud Powell’s Moods
1. Parisian Thoroughfare
2. Oblivion
3. Dusk in Sandi
4. Hallucinations
5. The Fruit
6. Tea for Two (Youmans, Caesar)
7. Hallelujah!“ (Youmans, Robin, Grey)
8. The Last Time I Saw Paris“ (Kern, Hammerstein II)
9. Just One of Those Things“ (Porter)
10. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square“
(Sherwin, Strachey, Maschwitz)
All songs were written by Bud Powell except as indicated
Recorded in New York on July 1, 1950 (band) and on February 1951 (solo)
Bud Powell (piano), accompanied by Ray Brown (bass), Buddy Rich (drums)
Oscar Peterson – Tenderly
11. Debut (Peterson)
12. They Didn‘t Believe Me (Kern/ Reynolds/ Rourke)
13. Lover, Come Back to Me (Hammerstein/ Romberg)
14. Where or When (Hart/ Rodgers)
15. Three O‘Clock in the Morning (Robledo/ Terriss)
16. All the Things You Are (Hammerstein/ Kern)
17. Tenderly (Gross/ Lawrence)
18. Oscar‘s Blues (Peterson)
19. Little White Lies (Peterson)
20. In the Middle of a Kiss (Coslow)
21. Nameless (Peterson)
22. Two Sleepy People (Carmichael/ Loesser)
Oscar Peterson (piano) in duets with Ray Brown or Major Holley (bass)
Recorded March, 1950/ May 8, 1950
CD5
Erroll Garner – Contrasts
1. You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell)
2. I‘ve Got the World on a String (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
3. 7-11 Jump (Erroll Garner)
4. Part Time Blues (Garner)
5. Rosalie (Cole Porter)
6. In a Mellow Tone (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler)
7. Don‘t Worry ‚Bout Me (Rube Bloom, Koehler)
8. (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings
(Jean Marie Blanvillain, Henri Herpin, Harold Rome)
9. There‘s a Small Hotel (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
10. Misty (Garner)
11. I‘ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter (Ellington)
Erroll Garner (piano), Wyatt Ruther (bass), Candido Camero (perc.),
Fats Heard (drums)
Recorded July 27, 1954
Ramsey Lewis Trio – Down To Earth
(Plays MUSIC From The Soil)
12. Dark Eyes (Traditional)
13. Come Back to Sorrento (Traditional)
14. Soul Mist (Ramsey Lewis)
15. John Henry (Traditional)
16. Greensleeves (Traditional)
17. We Blue It (Eldee Young, Ramsey Lewis, Red Holt)
18. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
19. Suzanne (Traditional)
20. Billy Boy (Traditional)
21. Decisions (Eldee Young)
Ramsey Lewis (piano), Eldee Young (bass), Redd Holt (drums)
Recorded Nov./Dec. 1958
CD6
Tommy Flanagan Trio – Overseas
1. Relaxin‘ at Camarillo (Parker)
2. Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn)
3. Eclypso
4. Beat‘s Up
5. Skål Brothers
6. Little Rock
7. Verdandi
8. Delarna
9. Willow Weep for Me (Ronell)
Composed by Tommy Flanagan except as indicated
Tommy Flanagan (piano), Wilbur Little (bass), Elvin Jones (drums)
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, August 15, 1957
CD7
Red Garland – Alone
1. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan)
2. These Foolish Things (Link, Marvell, Strachey)
3. My Last Affair (Haven Johnson)
4. You Are Too Beautiful (Hart, Rodgers)
5. I Got It Bad (And That Ain‘t Good) (Ellington, Webster)
6. The Nearness of You (Carmichael, Washington)
7. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (Silvers, VanHeusen)
8. When I Fall in Love (Heyman, Young)
Red Garland (piano)
Recorded April 2, 1960 at Van Gelder Studio,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
CD8
Dave Brubeck – Jazz At Oberlin
1. The Way You Look Tonight (Kern/ Fields)
2. How High The Moon (Lewis)
3. These Foolish Things (Marvell/ Link)
4. Perdido (Tizol)
5. Stardust (Carmichael/ Parish)
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Dave Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto sax),
Lloyd Davis (drums), Ron Crotty (bass)
Recorded in Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, March 2, 1953
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims
1. Just Blues (Sims)
2. Violets For Your Furs (Adair/ Dennis)
3. Down Home (Lloyd)
4. Almost Like Being In Love (Lerner/ Loewe)
5. Wee Dot (Johnson/ Parker)
6. Too Close For Comfort (Böck/ Holofcener/ Weiss)
Jutta Hipp (piano, Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Jerry Lloyd (trumpet),
Ahmed Abdul-Malik (bass), Ed Thigpen (drums)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, on July 29, 1956
CD9
Freddie Redd – Music From The
Connection
1. Who Killed Cock Robin?
2. Wiggin’
3. Music Forever
4. Time To Smile
5. Theme For Sister Salvation
6. Jim Dunn’s Dilemma
7. O.D.
Composed by Freddie Redd
Freddie Redd (piano), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Michael Mattos (bass),
Larry Ritchie (drums)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
on February 15, 1960
Walter Davis Jr. – Davis Cup
1. Smake It
2. Loodle-Lot
3. Sweetness
4. Rhumba Nhumba
5. Minor Mind
6. Millie’s Delight
Composed by Walter Davis, Jr.
Walter Davis, Jr. (piano), Donald Byrd (trumpet), Jackie McLean (alto sax),
Sam Jones (bass), Art Taylor (drums)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
on August 2, 1959
CD10
Sonny Clark – Sonny’s Crib
1. With a Song in My Heart (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
2. Speak Low (Kurt Weill)
3. Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen)
4. Sonny‘s Crib
5. News for Lulu
All compositions by Sonny Clark except as indicated
Sonny Clark (piano), Donald Byrd (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone),
John Coltrane (tenor sax), Paul Chambers (bass), Art Taylor (drums)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey,
on September 1, 1957
