This CD contains the complete sessions for Johnny Coles’ debut album The Warm Sound, which showcased the trumpeter fronting a quartet. The two tracks that were not issued on the original album are included here as well as three bonus tracks of Johnny Coles in small band settings!

Tracks: 1. Room 3, 2. Where, 3. Come Rain Or Come Shine, 4. Hi-fly [Take 5], 5. Pretty Strange, 6. If I Should Lose You, 7. Babe’s Blues, 8. Hi-fly [Take 2], 9. Friday’s Child (*), 10. Chamblee Special (*), 11. Whisper Not (*).
(*) Bonus Tracks

JOHNNY COLES (TP) ON ALL TRACKS ACCOMPANIED BY:
#1-8: "THE WARM SOUND": Kenny Drew (p, #1, 3-6, 8), Randy Weston (p, #2-7), Peck Morrison (b), Charlie Persip (d). Recorded in New York, April 10 (1-2) & April 13 (3-8), 1961.
#9: Duke Pearson (p), Bob Cranshaw (b), Walter Perkins (d). Recorded in New York, January 12, 1962.
#10-11: Julian Priester (tb), Eddie Chamblee (ts), Charles Davis (bs), Jack Wilson (p), Richard Evans (b), Charlie Persip (d). Recorded in New York, October 1957.
Total Time: 64:33 mins.