In just one CD an exceptional double program spanning the past and the present of a great musician. The Jack Nimitz-Bill Harris Group is playing the first part of the CD in an unreleased session arranged by Bob Zief and originally produced by Creed Taylor for the ABC-Paramount label and cut in New York in 1957. The second act was recorded in Hollywood in 2007 featuring the baritone sax mastery of Nimitz (in the right channel) and Adam Schroeder (in the left channel) in front of a rock-solid veteran quintet.
Tracklisting:

01. LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY (I.Gershwin-Kern) 4:00
02. A HANDFUL OF STARS (Lawrence-Shapiro) 2:22
03. YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC (Dietz-Schwartz) 5:07
04. SOFTLY, AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE (Hammerstein II-Romberg) 4:05
05. THE LOVE NEST (Harbach-Hirsch) 5:37
06. AUTUMN NOCTURNE (Gannon-Myrow) 3:12
07. SOMEBODY LOVES ME (MacDonald-De Sylva-G.Gershwin) 3:19
08. LEAN ON ME (Waldman-Greene) 4:01
09. SHINE (Mack-Brown-Dabney) 3:42

Recorded at Belltone Studios, New York City, March 1957

10. BERNIE’S TUNE (Bernie Miller) 4:28
11. WALTZ THIS! (Mike Barone) 5:03
12. MORE FRIENDS (Jack Nimitz) 5:27
13. GROOVIN’ HIGH (Dizzy Gillespie) 4:53
14. ALL YOU ARE (Jack Nimitz) 5:50
15. WELL, YOU NEEDN’T (Thelonious Monk) 5:49
16. POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS (Burke-Van Heusen) 7:53
17. IT’S YOU OR NO ONE (Cahn-Styne) 4:11

Recorded at Entourage Studios, Hollywood, January 14, 2007