Jazz at the Philharmonic

• 3-CD DE-LUXE BOX SET

• FOR THE FISRT TIME ON CD

• 4 1/2 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

This release presents a complete 1960 performance by the JATP All Stars, originally issued on 4 separate LPs titled Jazz at the Philharmonic in Europe (Verve V-8539 to V-8542). It features none other than Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, and Don Byas on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley, Benny Carter and Leo Wright on alto sax, and J. J. Johnson on trombone, among others. Recorded during the same single performance, this set appears here on CD for the first time ever!.

As a bonus, a wonderful complete JATP sextet set recorded at the same venue three years earlier and featuring Eldridge with violinist Stuff Smith and pianist Oscar Peterson.

PERSONNEL:

• CD ONE:
• ON TRACKS [1-2]
• Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
• Cannonball Adderley (alto sax)
• J. J. Johnson (trombone)
• Benny Carter (alto sax)
• Lalo Schifrin (piano)
• Art Davis (bass)
• Chuck Lampkin (drums)

• ON TRACK [3]
• Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkin, Don Byas (tenor sax)
• Roy Eldridge (trumpet)
• Lalo Schifrin (piano)
• Art Davis (bass)
• Jo Jones (drums)

• ON TRACKS [4-8]
• Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet on 5 only)
• Stan Getz (tenor sax)
• J. J. Johnson (trombone)
• Victor Feldman (vibes, piano)
• Sam Jones (bass)
• Louis Hayes (drums)

• CD TWO:
• Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas (tenor sax
• Roy Eldridge (trumpet)
• Benny Carter (alto sax)
• Lalo Schifrin (piano)
• Art Davis (bass)
• Jo Jones (drums)

• CD THREE:
• ON TRACKS [1-3]
• Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
• Stan Getz (tenor sax)
• J. J. Johnson (trombone)
• Leo Wright (alto sax, flute)
• Lalo Schifrin (piano)
• Art Davis (bass)
• Chuck Lampkin (drums)
• Candido Camero (conga)
• Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, November 21, 1960.

• BONUS TRACK CD 3
• ON TRACKS [4-10]:
• Roy Eldridge (trumpet, plus vcl on ‘School Days’)
• Stuff Smith (violin)
• Oscar Peterson (piano)
• Herb Ellis (guitar)
• Ray Brown (bass)
• Jo Jones (drums)
• Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, April 28, 1957.

TRACKS:

• CD ONE: (74:07 min)
• 01. Bernie’s Tune
• 02. Swedish Jam
• 03. All The Things You Are
• 04. Sweet Georgia Brown
• 05. Blue ‘N Boogie
• 06. I Waited For You
• 07. Yesterdays
• 08. Trotting

• CD TWO: (54:36 min)
• 01. Take The “A” Train
• 02. Indiana
• 03. These Foolish Things [Feat. Coleman Hawkins]
• 04. Yesterdays [Feat. Don Byas]
• 05. The Nearness Of You [Feat. Benny Carter]
• 06. You Go To My Head [Feat. Roy Eldridge]
• 07. A Jazz Portrait Of Brigitte Bardot

• CD THREE: (70:38 min)
• 01. Kush
• 02. The Mooche
• 03. Wheatleigh Hall
• 04. Announcement By Norman Granz
• 05. Undecided
• 06. Embraceable You
• 07. School Days
• 08. Lester Leaps In
• 09. Moonlight In Vermont
• 10. Bugle Call Rag