tracks 1.08, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14 to 1.16 arranged by Daniel J. White tracks 1.07, 1.09, 1.11, 1.13 arranged by Jo Boyer tracks 2.11 to 2.16 arranged by Michel Legrand tracks 1.01 to 1.21, 2.01 to 2.08 bass Joe Benjamin tracks 2.09 to 2.16 bass Lou Hackney tracks 1.07 to 1.16 clarinet Albert Gillot tracks 1.01 to 1.06 congas Humberto Canto design Barilla.design tracks 2.09 to 2.16 drums Al Jones tracks 1.01 to 1.21, 2.01 to 2.08 drums Bill Clark tracks 1.07 to 1.16 flute René Bigerille tracks 1.07 to 1.21 guitar Jean-Jacques Tilché tracks 2.09, 2.10 guitar Unknown Artist tracks 1.07 to 1.16, 2.11 to 2.16 orchestra Dizzy Gillespie And His Operatic Strings photography by Jean-Pierre Leloir tracks 1.07 to 1.21, 2.01 to 2.08 piano Arnold Ross tracks 1.01 to 1.06 piano Art Simmons tracks 2.09 to 2.16 piano Wade Legge reissue producer [prepared for the release by] Bruno Guermonprez reissue producer [prepared for the release by] François Lê Xuân reissue producer [prepared for the release by] Michel Mercier remastered by Alexis Frenkel tracks 1.01 to 1.06, 2.19, 2.21, 2.22, 2.25 tenor saxophone Don Byas tracks 1.07 to 1.16 trombone André Gosset tracks 1.07 to 1.16 trombone Guy Destanque tracks 1.07 to 1.16 trombone René Vasseur tracks 2.09, 2.10 trombone Unknown Artist trumpet Dizzy Gillespie tracks 1.04, 2.12, 2.15 vocals Dizzy Gillespie Recorded At Théâtre Des Champs-Élysées Recorded At Studio Pathé Magellan Remastered At Art et Son Studio Reissue of the Blue Star 78rpm discs 247 (2.11, 2.13), 248 (2.12, 2.15), 249 (2.14, 2.16), 250 (1.08,1.15), 251 (1.07, 1.16), 252 (1.10, 1.13), 253 (1.02, 2.01), 254 (1.06, 2.04), 255 (1.01, 1.04), 256 (1.17, 1.19, 2.07, 2.08), 257 (1.03, 1.05, 2.03, 2.05), 259 (2.09, 2.10) (2.02) extract from the Blue Star 10: LP 6807 (2.05) extract from the Barclay LP 844 006 (2.06 to 2.08) extract from the Blue Star 10: LP 6806
1.01 to 1.06 recorded March 25, 1952 in Paris, Théâtre de Champs-Élysées. 1.07 to 1.21 recorded April 5, 1952 in Paris, Théâtre de Champs-Élysées. 2.01 to 2.08 recorded April 6, 1952 in Paris, Théâtre de Champs-Élysées. 2.09 to 2.16 recorded February 22, 1953 in Paris, Studio Pathé Magellan.