tracks 3-4 to 3-7 alto saxophone Cannonball Adderley
tracks 3-8 alto saxophone Frank Wess
tracks 2-7, 2-9 to 3-2 alto saxophone Herb Geller
tracks 3-11 alto saxophone Joe Lopes
tracks 2-7 alto saxophone Joe Maini
tracks 3-8 to 3-11 alto saxophone Phil Woods
tracks 3-9, 3-10 alto saxophone Porter Kilbert
tracks 1-13 alto saxophone Rick Henderson
tracks 1-13 alto saxophone Rick Henderson
tracks 1-4 alto saxophone, baritone saxophone Ernest McDonald
tracks 4-8 to 4-10 alto saxophone, flute James Moody
tracks 3-3, 3-8 arranged by Quincy Jones
tracks 3-1 baritone saxophone Bud Shank
tracks 3-3 baritone saxophone Cecil Payne
tracks 3-8 baritone saxophone Danny Bank
tracks 3-11 baritone saxophone Pat Patrick
tracks 3-9, 3-10 baritone saxophone Sahib Shihab
tracks 3-4 to 3-6 bass Al McKibbon
tracks 3-11, 3-12 bass Art Davis
tracks 2-8 bass Bill Anthony
tracks 4-1, 4-2 bass Bob Cranshaw
tracks 3-9, 3-10 bass Buddy Catlett
tracks 4-8 to 4-10 bass Chris White
tracks 2-7 bass Curtis Counce
tracks 1-4 bass Eugene Wright
tracks 4-3 to 4-5 bass Herbie Lewis
tracks 1-13 bass Keter Betts
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 bass Lloyd Anderson
tracks 3-8 bass Milt Hinton
tracks 2-1, 3-3 bass Paul Chambers
tracks 2-4 bass Peter Ind
tracks 3-1 bass Ray Brown
tracks 2-9 to 2-11 bass Red Mitchell
tracks 4-6, 4-7 bass Ron Brooks
tracks 3-13 bass Vernon Martin
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 bass Walter Buchanan
tracks 3-6, 3-7 cello, bass Sam Jones
compiled by, research Kiyoshi Koyama
tracks 2-5, 2-6 conductor Johnny Richards
tracks 3-8, 3-11 conductor Quincy Jones
tracks 3-4 to 3-7 cornet Nat Adderley
tracks 2-4 drums Al Levitt
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 drums Al Walker
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 drums Alphonse Walker
tracks 3-1 drums Alvin Stoller
tracks 1-11, 1-12 drums Art Blakey
tracks 3-8, 3-12 drums Charlie Persip
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 drums Cooky Jackso
tracks 1-13 drums Ed Thigpen
tracks 1-4 drums Ellis Bartee
tracks 2-1 drums Harold Wing
tracks 2-1 drums Harold Wing
tracks 2-8 drums Jack Edie
tracks 3-7 drums Jimmy Cobb
tracks 3-3, 3-9, 3-10 drums Joe Harris
tracks 2-7 drums Max Roach
tracks 2-9 to 2-11 drums Mel Lewis
tracks 4-6, 4-7 drums Robert Pozar
tracks 4-6, 4-7 drums Robert Pozar
tracks 3-13 drums Roy Haynes
tracks 4-3 to 4-5 drums Roy McCurdy
tracks 4-8 to 4-10 drums Rudy Collins
tracks 3-4 to 3-6 drums Specs Powell
tracks 3-4 to 3-6 drums Specs Wright
tracks 3-11 drums Stu Martin
tracks 4-1, 4-2 drums Walter Perkins
tracks 2-1 flute Sam Most
tracks 3-8 to 3-11 french horn Julius Watkins
tracks 2-1, 3-3 guitar Barry Galbraith
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 guitar Gene Griddins
tracks 2-1 guitar Jerome Darr
tracks 2-1 guitar Jerome Darr
tracks 4-1, 4-2 guitar Jim Hall
tracks 3-8 guitar Kenny Burrell
tracks 3-9 to 3-11 guitar, flute Les Spann
liner notes Dan Morgenstern
liner notes Leonard Feather
tracks 1-13 percussion Candido
photography by Chuck Stewart
tracks 4-1, 4-2 piano Billy Taylor
tracks 4-6, 4-7 piano Bob James
tracks 1-1, 1-2 piano Erroll Garner
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 piano George Rhodes
tracks 4-3 to 4-5 piano Harold Mabern
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 piano Jay McShann
tracks 2-8 piano John Williams
tracks 1-4, 1-13, 2-2, 2-3, 3-4 to 3-7 piano Junior Mance
tracks 4-8 to 4-10 piano Kenny Barron
tracks 2-7 piano Kenny Drew
tracks 2-9 to 2-11, 3-1 piano Lorraine Geller
tracks 3-8 to 3-11 piano Patti Bown
tracks 2-4 piano Paul Bley
tracks 3-12 piano Richard Wyands
tracks 2-1 piano Sir Charles Thompson
tracks 3-3 piano Wade Legge
tracks 3-13 piano Wynton Kelly
tracks 1-3 piano, celesta Erroll Garner
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 tenor saxophone Arnett Cobb
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 tenor saxophone Ben Webster
tracks 3-8, 4-3 to 4-5 tenor saxophone Benny Golso
tracks 3-9, 3-10 tenor saxophone Budd Johnson
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 tenor saxophone Clifford Jenkins
tracks 1-13 tenor saxophone Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 tenor saxophone Fats Dennis
tracks 1-4 tenor saxophone Gene Ammons
tracks 3-1 tenor saxophone Georgie Auld
tracks 3-3, 3-9 to 3-11 tenor saxophone Jerome Richardson
tracks 1-13, 2-1 tenor saxophone Paul Quinichette
tracks 2-7 tenor saxophone Walter Benton
tracks 3-8 tenor saxophone Zoot Sims
tracks 3-1 tenor saxophone, arranged by Bill Holman
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone Charlie Ferguson
tracks 3-11 tenor saxophone, flute Eric Dixon
tracks 3-12, 3-13 tenor saxophone, siren, flute, other [manzello] Roland Kirk
tracks 3-1 trombone Bob Burgess
tracks 3-11 trombone Britt Woodman
tracks 3-11 trombone Curtis Fuller
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 trombone Dickie Harris
tracks 4-3 to 4-5 trombone Grachan Moncur III
tracks 1-13 trombone Gus Chappell
tracks 3-3, 3-8 to 3-10 trombone Jimmy Cleveland
tracks 3-8 to 3-11 trombone Melba Liston
tracks 3-11 trombone Paul Faulise
tracks 3-8 to 3-10 trombone Quentin Jackson
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 trombone Richard Harris
tracks 3-8 trombone Urbie Green
tracks 3-9, 3-10 trombone Åke Persson
tracks 4-3 to 4-5 trumpet Art Farmer
tracks 3-9, 3-10 trumpet Benny Bailey
tracks 3-1 trumpet Buddy Childers
tracks 1-11 to 1-13, 3-8 to 3-10 trumpet Clark Terry
tracks 2-7 trumpet Clifford Brown
tracks 4-8 to 4-10 trumpet Dizzy Gillespie
tracks 1-8 to 1-10 trumpet Ed Lewis
tracks 3-3, 3-8 trumpet Ernie Royal
tracks 3-9, 3-10 trumpet Floyd Standifer
tracks 1-4 trumpet Gail Brockman
tracks 3-8 trumpet Harry Edison
tracks 3-11 trumpet Jimmy Maxwell
tracks 3-11 trumpet Jimmy Nottingham
tracks 3-11 trumpet Joe Newman
tracks 3-8 to 3-11 trumpet Joe Wilder
tracks 3-11 trumpet John Bello
tracks 3-9, 3-10 trumpet Lonnie Johnson
tracks 3-1, 3-2 trumpet Maynard Ferguson
tracks 1-5 to 1-7 trumpet Orville "Piggy" Minor
tracks 3-1 trumpet Ray Linn
tracks 1-13 vocals Dinah Washington
tracks 2-5, 2-6 vocals Helen Merrill
Recorded At Carnegie Hall
Recorded At Newport Jazz Festival
Manufactured By Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd.
Distributed 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 33 page booklet in English and Japanese.

Recording date and location:
#1-1 to 1-3: New York. March 14, 1955
#1-4: Chicago, December 10, 1947
#1-5 to 1-7: Kansas City, October 27, 1951
#1-8 to 1-10: New York, June 14, 1953
#1-11, 1-12: New York, February 1954
#1-13: New York, June 15, 1954
#2-1: New York, November 4, 1954
#2-2, 2-3: March 1954
#2-4: New York, August 30, 1954
#2-5, 2-6: New York, ca. Mid, February, 1954
#2-7: Los Angeles, August 11, 1954
#2-8: New York, June 15, 1955
#2-9. 2-10: Los Angeles, April 20, 1955
#2-11: Los Angeles, April 26, 1955
#3-1: Los Angeles, November 7, 1955
#3-2: Los Angeles:October 10, 1955
#3-3: New York, November 4, 1955
#3-4: New York, July 12, 1956
#3-5, 3-6: New York, July 23, 1956
#3-7: New York, March 6, 1958
#3-8 : New York, May 26, 1959
# 3-9, 3-10: Paris, France, February 1960.
# 3-11: Live at Newport Jazz Festival, July 3, 1961.
#3-12: New York, August 16, 1961
#3-13: New York, April 18, 1962
#4-3, 4-4: New York, March 2, 1962
#4-5: New York, June 21, 1962
#4-6, 4-7: Chicago, August 14, 1962
#4-8 to 4-10: Live at the Charlie Parker Memorial Concert, Carnegie Hall, New York, March 27, 1965
Rights Society: JASRAC (Japan)
Matrix / Runout: 30JD 22 M2C (CD1)
Matrix / Runout: 30JD 23 M5C (CD2)
Matrix / Runout: 30JD 24 S4E (CD3)
Matrix / Runout: 30JD 25 3E1 (CD4)