TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

The music in this CD comes from no-professional privates tapes and its technical sound quality its no up to today's standarts. However, it is released because of the impotance of the musicians involved and of its high musical and historical value. Every effort has been made to improve the sound qualilty through advanced restoration technologies.

PERSONNEL:

GEORGE RUSSELL, piano and arranger on all tracks, with:

ON TRACKS [1-5]:

AL KIGER, trumpet
DAVE BAKER, trombone
DAVE YOUNG, tenor sax
CHUCK ISRAELS, bass
JOE HUNT, drums

DAVID LAHM replaces Russell on #4.
Recorded at the Berkshire Music Barn, Lennox, MA. September 1, 1960.

ON TRACKS [6-9]:

DON ELLIS, trumpet
DAVE BAKER, trombone
JOHN GILMORE, tenor sax
STEVE SWALLOW, bass
PETE LA ROCA, drums
SHEILA JORDAN, vocals

Recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI. July, 1964.

ON TRACK [10]:

THAD JONES, cornet
GARNETT BROWN, bass
JOE FARRELL, sax
Unknown bass
AL HEATH, drums

Recorded in Europe, July 1964.

TRACKS:

01. Introduction
02. Things New
03. Dance Class
04. Potting Shed
05. Stratusphunk
06. The Outer View
07. Stratusphunk
08. Volupte
09. You Are My Sunshine
10. Around Midnight