4 L`Ps ON 2 CDs

PERSONNEL:

CD 1 (1-10) from the album Porgy and Bess Revisited (Warner Bros WS 1260)

Soloist Cast
Cootie Williams as Porgy (trumpet on #2,3,7,8,10)
Rex Stewart as Sportin’ Life (trumpet on #1,5)
Hilton Jefferson as Bess (alto sax on #2)
Lawrence Brown as Serena & Clara (trombone on #4,6)
Pinky Williams as Jake (baritone sax on #9)

Collective personnel includes Bernie Glow, Joe Wilder, Ernie Royal, Al Derisi (tp), Urbie Green, Eddie Bert, Sonny Russo (tb), Sid Cooper, Walt Levinsky, Al Klink, Boomie Richman, Pinky Williams (reeds), Buddy Weed (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Don Lamond (d). Plus string section.

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, late 1958

CD 1 (11-18) from the album Showboat Revisited (Warner Bros WS 1324)

Soloist Cast
Doc Severinsen as Julie (trumpet on #11 & 15)
Ernie Royal as Joe (trumpet on #14)
Hilton Jefferson as Magnolia (alto sax on #17)
Lawrence Brown as Ravenal (trombone on #13)
Walt Levinsky as Kim (clarinet on #16)

Collective personnel includes Jimmy Maxwell, Ernie Royal, Doc Severinsen, Joe Wilder (tp), Joe Bennett, Eddie Bert, Lawrence Brown (tb), Sid Cooper, Harold Feldman, Al Klink, Gene Allen (reeds), Buddy Weed (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Don Lamond (d). Plus string section.

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, April 1959

CD 2 (1-12) from the album Gilbert & Sullivan Revisited (Warner Bros WS 1258)

Collective personnel includes Donald Byrd, Nick Travis, Joe Wilder (tp), Jimmy Cleveland, Tyree Glenn, Frank Rehak (tb), Hal McKusick, Al Klink, Gene Allen, Phil Woods (reeds), Hank Jones (p), Joe Venuto (vib), Kenny Burrell, Mundell Lowe (g), George Duvivier (b), Nick Stabulas (d).

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, December 18, 1958

CD 2 (14-25) from the album Hallelujah! Spirituals in Stereo Brass (RCA Victor LSP-2029)

Collective personnel includes Joe Wilder, Doc Severinsen, Ernie Royal, Jimmy Maxwell, Bernie Glow, Al De Risi, Mel Davis (tp), Urbie Green, Jimmy Cleveland, Sonny Russo (tb), Jimmy Buffington, Ray Alonge (frh), Joe Venuto (vib), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Don Lamond, Sol Gubin, Nick Stabulas (d).

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, February 20, 1959.

CD 1:

01. It Ain’t Necessarily So
02. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
03. I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
04. My Man’s Gone Now
05. There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York
06. Summertime
07. A Red Headed Woman
08. Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess
09. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
10. Oh Lawd, I’m On My Way
11. Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
12. Dandies On Parade
13. Make Believe
14. Ol’ Man River
15. Bill
16. Dance Away the Night
17. Why Do I Love You?
18. After the Ball

CD 2:

01. We Sail the Ocean Blue
02. With Catlike Tread Upon Our Prey We Steal
03. A Wandering Minstrel
04. The Flowers That Bloom In Spring
05. When I Was A Lad
06. I Am the Very Model of A Modern Major General
07. I Am the Captain of the Pinafore
08. I’m Called Little Buttercup
09. Poor Wandering One
10. Farewell, My Own
11. Tit Willow
12. Three Little Maids From School
13. Here’s A How-Dee-Do
14. Joshua
15. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
16. It’s Me
17. Let My People Go
18. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
19. Go Tell It On the Mountain
20. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
21. The Blind Man
22. Me and Zeke
23. The Gospel Train
24. Hold On
25. I Didn’t Hear Nobody Pray