A masterclass in jazz saxophone and improvisation; the five hours of music contained here includes many of the defining moments of the bebop era and, in completion, serves as both a welcome reminder and a superb starting point for exploration into this majestic musician’s catalogue.
– Disc 1 –
1 Decision
2 Bluesnote
3 How Are Things in Glocca Morra’
4 Plain Jane
5 Sonnysphere
6 Why Don’t I
7 Wail March
8 Misterioso
9 Reflections
10 You Stepped Out of a Dream
11 Poor Butterfly
– Disc 2 –
1 I’m An Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)
2 Solitude
3 Come, Gone
4 Wagon Wheels
5 There Is No Greater Love
6 Way Out West
7 Last Time I Saw Paris, the
8 Just in Time
9 Toot, Toot, Tootsie
10 What Is Here to Stay
11 Dearly Beloved
12 Everytime We Say Goodbye
13 Cutie
14 It Could Happen to You
15 Mangoes
– Disc 3 –
1 Old Devil Moon
2 Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
3 Striver’s Row
4 Sonnymoon for Two
5 Night in Tunisia, a
6 I Can’t Get Started
7 Freedom Suite, the
8 Someday I’ll Find You
9 Will You Still Be Mine
10 Till There Was You
11 Shadow Waltz
– Disc 4 –
1 I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star
2 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
3 How High the Moon
4 You
5 I’ve Found a New Baby
6 Alone Together
7 In the Chapel in the Moonlight
8 Song Is You, the
9 Tune Up
10 Asiatic Raes
11 Wonderful! Wonderful!
12 Surrey with the Fringe on Top, the
13 Blues for Philly Joe
14 Namely You