The Perfect Jazz Collection
~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)
Annotation
A remastered version of the original release, plus three previously unreleased alternate takes, and one alternate take supposedly released (#9-12).
Not clear exactly which one is it, and wether #9 is really an a.t. or an unedited version.
It's also unclear if this material was issued before in the Columbia boxset.
Recorded February - March 1966 in New York.
Drums – Charlie Persip (tracks: 15, 16), Jimmy Lovelace, Ray Lucas (tracks: 2, 3, 13)
Mastered By (Digitally) – Mark Wilder
Organ – Lonnie Smith
Producer – John Hammond
Reissue Producer – Didier C. Deutsch, Steve Berkowitz
Saxophone (Baritone) – Ronnie Cuber
Trumpet – Blue Mitchell (tracks: 15, 16)
Vocals, Guitar – George Benson
The Herbie Hancock Group
- Herbie Hancock: Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner D6 clavinet, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, ARP Soloist synthesizer, pipes.
- Bennie Maupin: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, saxello, bass clarinet, alto flute.
- Paul Jackson: electric bass, marimbula.
- Bill Summers': congas, shekere, balafon, agogo, cabasa, hindewho, tambourine, log drum, surdo, gankoqui, beer bottle.
Notes
This release is known as the "track 1 slow fade" corrected speed version.
See the original for details.
Remastered edition of 1950's album, issued with additional alternate takes.
Label: Sony - Catalog #: 65144 - UPC: 074646514429
barcode/cat # entered in Edit #14383252 — way after release was originally added, and refers to a 25cd boxset The Perfect Jazz Collection: 25 Original Albums, of which this is apparently disc #6. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003IY49S4/
Tracklist
| 1CD: Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy |
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| 2CD: Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi |
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| 3CD: Art Blakey - The Jazz Messengers |
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| 4CD: Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin |
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| 5CD: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue |
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| 6CD: The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out |
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| 7CD: Duke Ellington & Count Basie - The Count Meets the Duke |
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| 9CD: Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods |
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| 10CD: Chet Baker - Chet Is Back! |
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| 11CD: The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream |
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| 12CD: Sonny Rollins - Sonny Meets Hawk! |
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| 13CD: Martial Solal - At Newport '63 |
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| 14CD: Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan - Two of a Mind |
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| 15CD: Benny Goodman - Together Again! |
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| 16CD: George Benson - It's Uptown |
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| 17CD: Nina Simone - Sings the Blues |
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| 18CD: Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here |
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| 19CD: Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea |
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| 20CD: Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters |
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| 21CD: Stan Getz - The Best of Two Worlds |
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| 22CD: Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius |
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| 23CD: Weather Report - Heavy Weather |
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| 24CD: Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time, Volume 1 |
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| 25CD: Charlie Parker - Bird |
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Credits
Release
| art direction: | Howard Fritzson |
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| design/illustration: | Randall Martin (US art director, graphic designer, and illustrator) |
| photography: | Don Hunstein (photographer) Jay Maisel (photographer) Sandy Speiser |
| additional liner notes: | Robert Palmer (English singer‐songwriter) |
| liner notes: | Bill Evans (pianist) Pat Metheny Scott H. Thompson (in 1992) |
| mixer and mastering: | Charles Harbutt (sound engineer and reissue producer) |
| additional engineer: | Ted Brosnan Ted Hammond |
| engineer: | David Palmer (Engineer) Fred Plaut Don Puluse |
| additional producer: | Bob Belden |
| producer: | George Avakian (US 1940–90s record producer) Bobby Colomby Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer) Teo Macero (American jazz saxophonist and composer) David Rubinson Irving Townsend Ben Young (producer, jazz historian, radio host, engineer) |
| recording engineer: | Mickey Crofford Ray Hall (engineer) Fred Plaut |
| agogô, balafon, cabasa, congas, gankogui, percussion [beer bottle], shekere, slit drum [log drum], surdo and tambourine: | Bill Summers |
| alto flute, bass clarinet, saxophone [saxello], soprano saxophone and tenor saxophone: | Bennie Maupin |
| alto saxophone: | Paul Desmond |
| bass: | Eugene Wright (bass) |
| double bass: | Robert Hurst (jazz bassist composer) |
| electric upright bass and marímbula: | Paul Jackson (jazz bassist) |
| membranophone: | Harvey Mason (jazz drummer) Joe Morello Jeffrey “Tain” Watts (jazz drummer) |
| piano: | Dave Brubeck Marcus Roberts (American jazz pianist) |
| Rhodes piano [Fender Rhodes electric piano], clavinet [Hohner D6 clavinet], other instruments [pipes] and synthesizer [ARP Odyssey synthesizer] and synthesizer [ARP Soloist synthesizer]: | Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer) |
| trumpet: | Wynton Marsalis |
| remaster of: | Monk’s Dream by Thelonious Monk Monk’s Dream by The Thelonious Monk Quartet Nina Simone Sings the Blues by Nina Simone |
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| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/3509725 [info] |
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| ASIN: | UK: B003IY49S4 [info] US: B000P46Q18 [info] US: B000002AIT [info] US: B0012GN2GA [info] US: B0013DCCS6 [info] US: B00000269G [info] FR: B003IY49S4 [info] |
| other databases: | https://www.musik-sammler.de/release/731762/ [info] |
Release group
| part of: | The Perfect Collection / La Discothèque idéale (order: 2) |
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