2-CD SET  -  INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS

PERSONNEL ON CD 1:

PHIL URSO, tenor sax on all tracks with:

[1-4:] PHIL URSO QUARTET

WALTER BISHOP Jr, piano
CLYDE LOMBARDI, bass
HOWIE MAN, drums
Hackensack, New Jersey, April 14, 1953

[5-8]: PHIL URSO-BOB BROOKMEYER QUINTET

BOB BROOKEMEYER, trombone
HORACE SILVER, piano
PERCY HEATH, bass
KENNY CLARKE, drums
Hackensack, New Jersey, April 30, 1954

[9-10]: PHIL URSO QUARTET & QUINTET

BOB BURGESS, trombono on track 9 only
BOBBY TIMMONS, piano
JIMMY BOND, bass
PETER LITTMAN, drums
Hollywood, October 18, 1956

[11-18]: PHIL URSO QUARTET & QUINTET

RON WASHINGTON, tenor sax
DAGWOOD WALTON, Hammond organ
GENE KLINGMAN, bass
JO JO WILLIAMS, drums
Louisville, Colorado, 1959

PERSONNEL ON  CD 2:

[1-5]: PHIL URSO accompanied by BOBBY BANKS

BOOBY BANKS, organ
Hackensack, New Jersey, February 18, 1954

[6-15]: Same personnel as above but Rodney “Red” Alcott, drums, added.
Hackensack, New Jersey, March 27, 1956

[16-20] BONUS TRACKS: THE NEW OSCAR PETTIFORD SEXTET

JULIUS WATKINS, french horn
WALTER BISHOP Jr, piano
OSCAR PETTIFORD, cello or bass only on track 17
CHARLES MINGUS, bass, except track 17
PERCY BRICE, drums on track 20
 
The only soloists are Pettiford and Bishop.
New York, December 29, 1953.

SOURCES CD 1:

[1-4] from the 7” EP NEW TRENDS OF JAZZ Vol.12” (Savoy XP-8059)
(Also issued on the 10” LP “Phil Urso and Bob Brookmeyer” (Savoy MG 15041))
[5-8] from the 10” LP PHIL URSO AND BOB BROOMEYER (Savoy MG 15041)
[1-8] also issued on the 12” LP THE PHILOSOPHY OF URSO (Savoy MG 12056)
[9] from the 10” LP SOLO FLIGHT (Jazz West Coast JWC-505)
[10] from AN ANTHOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA MUSIC , Vol. 3” (Jazz West Coast JWC-507)
[11-18] from THE JOMAR DAGRON QUARTET FEATURING PHIL URSO (Legacy MK 1050)

SOURCES CD 2:

[1-5] from the LP THE PHILOSOPHY OF URSO (Savoy MG 12056)
[6-15] from the LP SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (Regent MG 6003)
[16-20] from the 10” LP THE NEW OSCAR PETTIFORD SEXTET (Debut DLP 8)

CD 1:

01. Little Pres
02. Three Little Words
03. Don’t Take Your Love from Me
04. She’s Funny That Way
05. Chiketa
06. Stop Watch
07. Wizzard’s Gizzards
08. Ozzie’s Ode
09. It’s Only a Paper Moon
10. Too Marvelous for Words
11. Extra Mild
12. Squeeze Me
13. Blues #One
14. Satin Doll
15. Pent-Up House
16. Line for Lyons
17. Star Eyes
18. Dag’s Scene

CD 2:

01. My Heart Stood Still
02. Easy Out
03. This Can’t Be Love
04. Lush Tush
05. Where or When
06. My Heart Tells Me
07. Blues to Remember Her By
08. They Can’t Take That Away from Me
09. Moonlight Serenade
10. A Woman In Love
11. Sentimental Journey
12. 11th Hour Melody
13. Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You
14. Diane
15. Memories of You
16. The Pendulum at Falcon’s Lair (*)
17. Tamalpais [Song of Love to the Winds] (*)
18. Jack the Fieldstalker (*)
19. Stockholm Sweetnin’ (*)
20. Low and Behold (*)

(*) Bonus Tracks