Various - Mercury 40th Anniversary V.S.O.P. Album Mp3

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• Alto Saxophone – Cannonball Adderley (tracks: 3-4 to 3-7), Frank Wess (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Herb Geller (tracks: 2-7, 2-9 to 2-11, 3-1, 3-2), Joe Maini (tracks: 2-7), Phil Woods (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Rick Henderson (tracks: 1-13)
• Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Ernest McDonald (tracks: 1-4)
• Alto Saxophone, Flute – James Moody (tracks: 4-8 to 4-10)
• Arranged By – Quincy Jones (tracks: 3-3, 3-8 to 3-11)
• Baritone Saxophone – Bud Shank (tracks: 3-1), Cecil Payne (tracks: 3-3), Danny Bank (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11)
• Bass – Al McKibbon (tracks: 3-4 , 3-5), Art Davis (tracks: 3-12), Bill Anthony (tracks: 2-8), Bob Cranshaw (tracks: 4-1, 4-2), Chris White (tracks: 4-8 to 4-10), Curtis Counce (tracks: 2-7), Eugene Wright (tracks: 1-4), Herbie Lewis (tracks: 4-3 to 4-5), Keter Betts (tracks: 1-13), Lloyd Anderson (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Milt Hinton (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Paul Chambers (tracks: 2-1, 3-3), Peter Ind (tracks: 2-4), Ray Brown (tracks: 3-1), Red Mitchell (tracks: 2-9 to 2-11), Ron Brooks (tracks: 4-6, 4-7), Vernon Martin (tracks: 3-13), Walter Buchanan (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10)
• Cello – Sam Jones (tracks: 3-6)
• Compiled By, Research – Kiyoshi Koyama
• Conductor – Johnny Richards (tracks: 2-5, 2-6)
• Cornet – Nat Adderley (tracks: 3-4 to 3-7)
• Drums – Al Levitt (tracks: 2-4), Alphonse Walker (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10), Alvin Stoller (tracks: 3-1), Art Blakey (tracks: 1-11, 1-12), Charlie Persip (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11, 3-12, 3-13), Cooky Jackson (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Ed Thigpen (tracks: 1-13), Ellis Bartee (tracks: 1-4), Harold Wing (tracks: 2-1), Jack Edie (tracks: 2-8), Jimmy Cobb (tracks: 3-7), Joe Harris (tracks: 3-3), Max Roach (tracks: 2-7), Mel Lewis (tracks: 2-9 to 2-11), Robert Pozar (tracks: 4-6, 4-7), Roy Haynes (tracks: 3-13), Roy McCurdy (tracks: 4-3 to 4-5), Rudy Collins (tracks: 4-8 to 4-10), Specs Wright (tracks: 3-4 to 3-6), Walter Perkins (tracks: 4-1, 4-2)
• French Horn – Julius Watkins (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11)
• Guitar – Barry Galbraith (tracks: 2-1, 3-3), Gene Griddins (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Jerome Darr (tracks: 2-1), Jim Hall (tracks: 4-1, 4-2), Kenny Burrell (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11)
• Liner Notes – Dan Morgenstern, Leonard Feather
• Percussion – Candido Camero (tracks: 1-13)
• Photography By – Chuck Stewart
• Piano – Billy Taylor (tracks: 4-1, 4-2), Bob James (tracks: 4-6, 4-7), Erroll Garner (tracks: 1-1, 1-2), George Rhodes (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10), Harold Mabern (tracks: 4-3 to 4-5), Jay McShann (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), John Williams (tracks: 2-8), Junior Mance (tracks: 1-4, 1-13, 2-2, 2-3, 3-4, 3,5), Kenny Barron (tracks: 4-8 to 4-10), Kenny Drew (tracks: 2-7), Lorraine Geller (tracks: 2-9 to 2-11, 3-1), Patti Bown (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Paul Bley (tracks: 2-4), Richard Wyands (tracks: 3-12), Sir Charles Thompson (tracks: 2-1), Wade Legge (tracks: 3-3), Wynton Kelly (tracks: 3-13)
• Piano, Celesta – Erroll Garner (tracks: 1-3)
• Tenor Saxophone – Arnett Cobb (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10), Ben Webster (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Benny Golson (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11, 4-3 to 4-5), Benny Golson (tracks: 4-3 to 4-5), Clifford Jenkins (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (tracks: 1-13), Fats Dennis (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Gene Ammons (tracks: 1-4), Georgie Auld (tracks: 3-1), Jerome Richardson (tracks: 3-3), Paul Quinichette (tracks: 1-13), Walter Benton (tracks: 2-7), Zoot Sims (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11)
• Tenor Saxophone, Arranged By – Bill Holman (tracks: 3-1)
• Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Charlie Ferguson (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10)
• Tenor Saxophone, Siren, Flute – Roland Kirk (tracks: 3-12 to 3-13)
• Trombone – Grachan Moncur III (tracks: 4-3 to 4-5), Gus Chappell (tracks: 1-13), Jimmy Cleveland (tracks: 3-3, 3-8 to 3-11), Melba Liston (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Quentin Jackson (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Richard Harris (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10), Urbie Green (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11)
• Trumpet – Art Farmer (tracks: 4-3 to 4-5), Buddy Childers (tracks: 3-1), Clark Terry (tracks: 1-11, 1-12), Clark Terry (tracks: 1-13, 3-8 to 3-11), Clifford Brown (tracks: 2-7), Dizzy Gillespie (tracks: 4-8 to 4-10), Ed Lewis (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10), Ernie Royal (tracks: 3-3), Ernie Royal (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Gail Brockman (tracks: 1-4), Harry Edison (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Joe Wilder (tracks: 3-8 to 3-11), Maynard Ferguson (tracks: 3-1), Orville "Piggy" Minor (tracks: 1-5 to 1-7), Ray Linn (tracks: 3-1)
• Vocals – Dinah Washington (tracks: 1-13), Helen Merrill (tracks: 2-5, 2-6)

Notes

For first time in jazz history, an entire four-record set has been created out of previously undiscovered gems, representing a cross-section of the most formidable talents in what we now realize was a golden era of Jazz. The three hours and 20 minutes of music, performed by 22 artists on 47 unissued tracks, is the product of two years of painstaking research by Kiyoshi Koyama at the Polygram tape facility in Edison, New Jersey. Comes with a 33 page booklet in English and Japanese.

Recording date andlocation:
#1-1 to 1-3: New York. March 14, 1955
#1-4: Chicago, December 10, 1947
#1-5 to 1-7: Kansas City, October 27, 1951
#1-8 to 1-10: New York, June 14, 1953
#1-11, 1-12: New York, February 1954
#1-13: New York, June 15, 1954
#2-1: New York, November 4, 1954
#2-2, 2-3: March 1954
#2-4: New York, August 30, 1954
#2-5, 2-6: New York, Mid, February, 1954
#2-7: Los Angeles, August 11, 1954
#2-8: New York, June 15, 1955
#2-9. 2-10: Los Angeles, April 20, 1955
#2-11: Los Angeles, April 26, 1955
#3-1: Los Angeles, November 7, 1955
#3-2: Los Angeles:October 10, 1955
#3-3: New York, November 4, 1955
#3-4: New York, July 12, 1956
#3-5, 3-6: New York, July 23, 1956
#3-7: New York, March 6, 1958
#3-8 to 3-11: New York, May 26, 1959
#3-12: New York, August 16, 1961
#3-13: New York, April 18, 1962
#4-3, 4-4: New York, March 2, 1962
#4-5: New York, June 21, 1962
#4-6, 4-7: Chicago, August 14, 1962
#4-8 to 4-10: Live at the Charlie Parker Memorial Concert, Carnegie Hall, New York, March 27, 1965

Barcodes

• Rights Society (Japan): JASRAC
• Matrix / Runout (CD1): 30JD 22 M2C
• Matrix / Runout (CD2): 30JD 23 M5C
• Matrix / Runout (CD3): 30JD 24 S4E
• Matrix / Runout (CD4): 30JD 25 3E1