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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
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
Rights Society: JASRAC
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