Mercury 40th Anniversary V.S.O.P. Album
1984 4x Vinyl, Vinyl, Box Set
Swing
Bop
Big Band
Hard Bop
Post Bop
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Vocal
Soul-Jazz
Ballad

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Mercury
tracks e4 to e7 alto saxophone Cannonball Adderley
tracks f1 alto saxophone Frank Wess
tracks d1, d3 to e2 alto saxophone Herb Geller
tracks f4 alto saxophone Joe Lopes
tracks d1 alto saxophone Joe Maini
tracks f1 to f4 alto saxophone Phil Woods
tracks f2, f3 alto saxophone Porter Kilbert
tracks b6 alto saxophone Rick Henderson
tracks a4 alto saxophone, baritone saxophone Ernest McDonald
tracks h1 to h3 alto saxophone, flute James Moody
tracks f4 arranged by Ernie Wilkins
tracks e3, f1 to f3 arranged by Quincy Jones
tracks e1 baritone saxophone Bud Shank
tracks e3 baritone saxophone Cecil Payne
tracks f1 baritone saxophone Danny Bank
tracks f4 baritone saxophone Pat Patrick
tracks f2, f3 baritone saxophone Sahib Shihab
tracks e4 to e6 bass Al McKibbon
tracks f4, f5 bass Art Davis
tracks d2 bass Bill Anthony
tracks g1, g2 bass Bob Cranshaw
tracks f2, f3 bass Buddy Catlett
tracks h1 to h3 bass Chris White
tracks d1 bass Curtis Counce
tracks a4 bass Eugene Wright
tracks g3 to g5 bass Herbie Lewis
tracks b6 bass Keter Betts
tracks a5 to a7 bass Lloyd Anderson
tracks f1 bass Milt Hinton
tracks c1, e3 bass Paul Chambers
tracks c4 bass Peter Ind
tracks e1 bass Ray Brown
tracks d3 to d5 bass Red Mitchell
tracks g6, g7 bass Ron Brooks
tracks e7 bass Sam Jones
tracks f6 bass Vernon Martin
tracks b1 to b3 bass Walter Buchanan
tracks a3 celesta Erroll Garner
tracks e6 cello Sam Jones
tracks c5, c6 conductor Johnny Richards
tracks f1 to f4 conductor Quincy Jones
tracks e4 to e7 cornet Nat Adderley
tracks c4 drums Al Levitt
tracks b1 to b3 drums Al Walker
tracks e1 drums Alvin Stoller
tracks b4, b5 drums Art Blakey
tracks f1, f5 drums Charlie Persip
tracks a5 to a7 drums Cooky Jackson
tracks b6 drums Ed Thigpen
tracks a4 drums Ellis Bartee
tracks c1 drums Harold Wing
tracks d2 drums Jack Edie
tracks e7 drums Jimmy Cobb
tracks e3, f2, f3 drums Joe Harris
tracks d1, i, j drums Max Roach
tracks d3 to d5 drums Mel Lewis
tracks g6, g7 drums Robert Pozar
tracks f6 drums Roy Haynes
tracks g3 to g5 drums Roy McCurdy
tracks h1 to h3 drums Rudy Collins
tracks e4 to e6 drums Specs Wright
tracks f4 drums Stu Martin
tracks g1, g2 drums Walter Perkins
tracks g3 to g5 flugelhorn Art Farmer
tracks f4 flute Jerome Richardson
tracks c1 flute Sam Most
tracks f5, f6 flute, siren, saxophone [stritch, manzello] Roland Kirk
tracks f1 to f4 french horn Julius Watkins
tracks c1 guitar Berry Gailbraith
tracks a5 to a7 guitar Gene Griddins
tracks c1 guitar Jerome Darr
tracks g1, g2 guitar Jim Hall
tracks f1 guitar Kenny Burrell
tracks f2 to f4 guitar, flute Les Spann
liner notes Dan Morgenstern
liner notes Leonard Feather
tracks b6 percussion Candido
tracks g1, g2 piano Billy Taylor
tracks g6, g7 piano Bob James
tracks a1 to a3 piano Erroll Garner
tracks b1 to b3 piano George Rhodes
tracks g3 to g5 piano Harold Mabern
tracks a5 to a7 piano Jay McShann
tracks d2 piano John Williams
tracks a4, b6, c2, c3, e4 to e7 piano Junior Mance
tracks h1 to h3 piano Kenny Barron
tracks d1 piano Kenny Drew
tracks d3 to e1 piano Lorraine Geller
tracks f1 to f4 piano Patti Bown
tracks c4 piano Paul Bley
tracks f5 piano Richard Wyands
tracks c1 piano Sir Charles Thompson
tracks e3 piano Wade Legge
tracks f6 piano Wynton Kelly
research, compiled by Kiyoshi Koyama
tracks b1 to b3 tenor saxophone Arnett Cobb
tracks a5 to a7 tenor saxophone Ben Webster
tracks f1, g3 to g5 tenor saxophone Benny Golson
tracks f2, f3 tenor saxophone Budd Johnson
tracks a5 to a7 tenor saxophone Clifford Jenkins
tracks b6c tenor saxophone Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
tracks a5 to a7 tenor saxophone Fats Dennis
tracks a4 tenor saxophone Gene Ammons
tracks e1 tenor saxophone Georgie Auld
tracks e3, f2, f3, f4 tenor saxophone Jerome Richardson
tracks c1 tenor saxophone Paul Quinichette
tracks d1 tenor saxophone Walter Benton
tracks f1 tenor saxophone Zoot Sims
tracks e1 tenor saxophone, arranged by Bill Holman
tracks b1 to b3 tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone Charlie Ferguson
tracks f4 tenor saxophone, flute Eric Dixon
tracks f2, f3 tromba marina Åke Persson
tracks e1 trombone Bob Burgess
tracks f4 trombone Britt Woodman
tracks f4 trombone Curtis Fuller
tracks b1 to b3 trombone Dickie Harris
tracks g3 to g5 trombone Grachan Moncur III
tracks b6 trombone Gus Chappell
tracks e3, f1 to f3 trombone Jimmy Cleveland
tracks f1 to f4 trombone Melba Liston
tracks f4 trombone Paul Faulise
tracks f1 trombone Quentin Jackson
tracks f1 trombone Urbie Green
tracks f2, f3 trumpet Benny Bailey
tracks e1 trumpet Buddy Childers
tracks b4 to b6, f1 to f3 trumpet Clark Terry
tracks d1, i, j trumpet Clifford Brown
tracks h1 to h3 trumpet Dizzy Gillespie
tracks b1 to b3 trumpet Ed Lewis
tracks e3, f1 trumpet Ernie Royal
tracks f2, f3 trumpet Floyd Standifer
tracks a4, e3 trumpet Gail Brockman
tracks f1 trumpet Harry Edison
tracks f4 trumpet Jimmy Maxwell
tracks f4 trumpet Jimmy Nottingham
tracks f4 trumpet Joe Newman
tracks f1 trumpet Joe Wilder
tracks f4 trumpet John Bello
tracks f2, f3 trumpet Lonnie Johnson
tracks e1, e2 trumpet Maynard Ferguson
tracks a5 to a7 trumpet Orville "Piggy" Minor
tracks e1 trumpet Ray Linn
tracks b6 vocals Dinah Washington
tracks c5, c6 vocals Helen Merrill
Manufactured By Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd.
For first time in jazz history, an entire four-record set has been created out of previously undiscovered gems, representing a cross-section of the most formidable talents in what we now realize was a golden era of Jazz. The three hours and 20 minutes of music, performed by 22 artists on 47 unissued tracks, is the product of two years of painstaking research by Kiyoshi Koyama at the Polygram tape facility in Edison, New Jersey. Comes with a 10 page booklet in English and Japanese. And include 7 Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet = Mildama take2, take4

Record 1,2, 3A = mono
Record 3B, 4 and 7 = stereo

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