artwork [cover] Philip Hays
tracks d7, d8 banjo Charlie Dixon
tracks a5, a6 banjo Elmer Snowden
tracks c2, c3, d3, d4, d7 clarinet Buster Bailey
tracks d8 clarinet Coleman Hawkins
tracks b4, b5 clarinet Don Redman
tracks a5, a6 clarinet, alto saxophone Bob Fuller
tracks d7, d8 cornet Joe Smith
tracks a1 to a3 cornet Louis Armstrong
tracks b6 cornet Shelton Hemphill
design [cover] John Berg
executive-producer John Hammond
liner notes Chris Albertson
photography by [inside photo], other [photographic executor of the estate of carl van vechten] Saul Mauriber
tracks a8, b1, b7, b8, c1, c2 piano Clarence Williams
tracks a1 to a3, b2 to b5, c3 to c8, d1 to d4, d7, d8 piano Fletcher Henderson
tracks a4, b6 piano Fred Longshaw
tracks a5, a6 piano Isadore Myers
tracks d5, d6 piano James Price Johnson
producer Chris Albertson
restoration [technical restoration], edited by Larry Hiller
tracks a1 to a3, b2, b3 trombone Charlie Green
tracks d7, d8 trombone Jimmy Harrison
tracks b2, b3, c5 to c8, d3, d4 trumpet Joe Smith
Phonographic Copyright (p) CBS Inc.
Manufactured By Columbia Records
Manufactured By CBS Inc.
Mastered At Columbia Recording Studios
Mastered At Customatrix
Pressed By Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
Catalog numbers: CG 31093 on the jacket spine, back cover, and inside gatefold; G 31093 on the labels
Release is auto-coupled, with sides 1 and 4 on first disc and sides 2 and 3 on second.
Runout info is stamped.

This is the fifth of five two-record sets.

Recorded 1925-1927.

℗ 1972 CBS, Inc./Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc.

The selections are ASCAP except where noted
B2, B3, B4, C3, C5, C7, D1, D2 are (P.D.)
All selections were recorded in New York City

Liner notes include a condensed extract from Bessie, a biography of Bessie Smith by Chris Albertson, to be published by Stein and Day in January, 1972. © 1972 by Chris Albertson.

A1: May 26, 1925
A2, A3: May 27, 1925
A4: June 23, 1925
A5 & A6: August 19, 1925
A7: September 1, 1925
A8 & B1: November 17, 1925
B2, B3: November 18, 1925
B4 & B5: November 20, 1925
B6: December 9, 1925
B7, B8, C1, C2: March 5, 1926
C3 & C4: March 18, 1926
C5 to C8: May 4, 1926
D1 & D2: October 25, 1926
D3 & D4: October 26, 1926
D5 & D6: February 27, 1927
D7 & D8: March 2, 1927
Pressing Plant ID: P
Rights Society: ASCAP
Other: C 31094 (LP 1)
Other: C 31095 (LP 2)
Matrix / Runout: AL 31094 (Side A label)
Matrix / Runout: AL 31095 (Side B label)
Matrix / Runout: BL 31095 (Side C label)
Matrix / Runout: BL 31094 (Side D label)
Matrix / Runout: P AL-31094-1G B (Side A runout, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: o P AL 31095-1F (Side B runout, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: ᴘ P BL-31095-1H COLUMBIA NY BC (Side C runout, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: ᴘ ) o P BL-31094-1G COLUMBIA NY B (Side D runout, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: P AL 31094-1B (Side A runout, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: ° P AL 31095-1B (Side B runout, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: ° P BL 31095-1C (Side C runout, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: ° P BL 31094-1B (Side D runout, variant 2)