tracks a2 to a4, b3, b4 bass Percy Heath design Reid Miles tracks a2 to a4, b3, b4 drums Kenny Clarke lacquer cut by Rudy Van Gelder liner notes Ira Gitler photography by Tom Carroll tracks a2 to a4, b3, b4 piano Horace Silver tracks a1, a5, b1, b2, b5, b6 piano Thelonious Monk recorded by Rudy Van Gelder supervised by Bob Weinstock tracks a2 to a4, b3, b4 tenor saxophone Sonny Rollins trumpet Miles Davis tracks a1, a5, b1, b2, b5, b6 vibraphone [vibes] Milt Jackson Record Company Prestige Records Inc. Recorded At Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey Pressed By Abbey Record Manufacturing Co., Inc. A1, B5: first released as Prestige PRLP 200 'Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 2' (1955); A3, A4, B3, B4: first released as Prestige PRLP 187 'Miles Davis Quintet Featuring Sonny Rollins' (1954); A5, B6: first released as Prestige PRLP 196 'Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1' (1955); B1, B2: first released here and as part of Prestige PRLP 7109 'Bags Groove' (1957); A2: first released here.
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, June 29, 1954 (A3, A4, B2 to B4) and December 24, 1954 (A1, A2, A5, B1, B5, B6) [jazzdisco.org].
First catalogue number on label, second and third on cover.
Matrix / Runout: PRES-16-3-A RVG AB (Runout side A, etched) Matrix / Runout: PRES-16-3-B RVG AB (Runout side B, etched) Matrix / Runout: RVG (Runout fragment side A+B, stamped)