Complete Studio Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  It's Only a Paper Moon (alternate take)
  6:22
• 2
  It's Only a Paper Moon
  6:41
• 3
  Dat Dere
  8:49
• 4
  The Chess Players
  9:37
• 5
  Lester Left Town
  6:26
• 6
  Sakeena's Vision
  6:06
• 7
  Politely
  6:04
• 8
  When Your Lover Has Gone
  6:45
• 9
  Noise in the Attic
  7:55
• 10
  Sleeping Dancer Sleep On (alternate take)
  8:06
• CD 2
• 1
  Sleeping Dancer Sleep On
  8:07
• 2
  Sincerely Diana
  6:48
• 3
  Sincerely Diana (alternate take)
  6:54
• 4
  Yama
  6:22
• 5
  Kozo's Waltz
  6:47
• 6
  Giantis
  5:34
• 7
  Johnny's Blue
  9:11
• 8
  So Tired
  6:37
• 9
  Like Someone in Love
  8:03
• 10
  A Night in Tunisia
  11:14
• CD 3
• 1
  United (No. 1)
  6:49
• 2
  Ping Pong (No. 1)
  5:59
• 3
  Blue Ching
  6:47
• 4
  Pisces
  6:54
• 5
  Look at the Birdie
  6:43
• 6
  Master Mind
  6:55
• 7
  Ping Pong (No. 2)
  7:11
• 8
  Petty Larceny
  6:15
• 9
  Roots and Herbs

  feat. Walter Davis Jr.
  6:05
• 10
  United (No. 2)

  feat. Walter Davis Jr.
  7:25
• CD 4
• 1
  The Witch Doctor (alternate take)
  5:34
• 2
  Those Who Sit and Wait
  5:52
• 3
  A Little Busy
  6:14
• 4
  Joelle
  5:11
• 5
  Afrique
  6:56
• 6
  Lost and Found
  5:05
• 7
  The Witch Doctor
  5:30
• 8
  The Back Sliders (alternate take)
  7:10
• 9
  The Back Sliders
  7:48
• 10
  The Freedom Rider
  7:26
• 11
  Tell It Like It Is
  7:52
• 12
  El Toro
  6:21
• CD 5
• 1
  Blue Lace
  5:58
• 2
  Uptight
  6:14
• 3
  Alamode (À La Mode)

  feat. Curtis Fuller
  6:50
• 4
  Invitation

  feat. Curtis Fuller
  7:28
• 5
  Circus

  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers feat.Curtis Fuller
  5:14
• 6
  You Don't Know What Love Is

  feat. Curtis Fuller
  7:00
• 7
  I Hear a Rhapsody

  feat. Curtis Fuller
  6:33
• 8
  Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You

  feat. Curtis Fuller
  4:57
• 9
  'round Midnight
  9:44
• 10
  The Things I Love
  8:27
• 11
  The Summit
  9:26
• 12
  The Theme
  1:35

More by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Oh-By the Way

Oh-By the Way 1982

Buttercorn Lady

Buttercorn Lady 1966

Ugetsu

Ugetsu 1963

Mosaic

Mosaic 1961

Moanin’

Moanin’ 1958

Selections from Lerner and Loewe’s… My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon

Selections from Lerner and Loewe’s… My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon 1957

Release credits

• Alfred Lion
  producer [2.1-10, 3.1-10, 4.1-12, 5.1-2, 1.1-10]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [5.1-2, 5.10-11, 2.1-10, 1.1-10, 3.1, 3.1-10, 4.1-12]
• Bobby Timmons
  piano [3.1-8, 4.1-12, 2.1-10, 1.1-10, 5.1-2, 5.10-11]
• Jymie Merritt
  bass [1.3, 2.1, 5.10-11], double bass [3.1, 3.1-10, 2.1-10, 1.1-10, 5.1-2, 5.10-11, 4.1-12]
• Lee Morgan
  trumpet [5.1-2, 5.10-11, 1.1-10, 2.1-10, 3.1, 3.1-10, 4.1-12]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [4.1-12, 1.1-10, 5.1-2, 3.1-10, 2.1-10]
• Walter Davis Jr.
  piano [1, 9-10]
• Wayne Shorter
  tenor saxophone [5.1-2, 5.10-11, 2.1-10, 3.1, 3.1-10, 4.1-12, 1.1-10]

Issues

• 

  C
  (Combined release view)
• 

  C
  Complete Studio Recordings

  5x CD
  2013
• C
  Complete Studio Recordings

  5x Digital Media (Bonus Track Version)
  3 February 2014