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.

TRANE'S LEGENDARY 1946 FIRST RECORDINGS PLAYING ALTO SAX
PLUS A RARE CONCERT OF TRANE WITH JOHNNY HODGES.

PERSONNEL:

ON TRACKS [1-8]:

DEXTER CULBERTSON, trumpet
NORMAN POULSHOCK, piano
WILLIE STAUDER, bass
JOE TIMER, drums
BENNIE THOMAS, vocals on 1,4,5 & 7
Hawaii, July 13, 1946.

ON TRACKS [9-15]:

JOHNNY HODGES, alto sax
JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax
HAROLD "SHORTY" BAKER, trumpet
LAWRENCE BROWN, trombone
CAL COBBS, piano
JOHN WILLIAMS, bass
JOE MARSHALL, drums
Unknown vocals
Live in Los Angeles, June 1954

TRACKS:

01. Embraceable You
02. Ornithology
03. Sweet Miss
04. It's Only A Paper Moon
05. Sweet Lorraine
06. Ko Ko
07. Now's The Time
08. Hot House
09. Thru For The Night
10. Castle Rock
11. Don't Blame Me
12. I've Got A Mind To Ramble Blues
13. Don't Cry Baby Blues
14. In A Mellow Tone
15. Burgundy Walk