Mysterious Blues

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  (Jubilee) Hallelujah
  3:54
• 2
  All the Things You Are
  8:11
• 3
  Ghost of a Chance
  3:09
• 4
  Move
  2:37
• 5
  Stormy Weather
  13:23
• 6
  Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
  3:27
• 7
  Lyon's Roar
  2:35
• 8
  Merle's Mood
  2:56
• 9
  Minor Intrusion
  10:11
• 10
  This Subdues My Passion
  2:52
• CD 2
• 1
  Medley: You Go to My Head
  2:43
• 2
  A Night in Tunisia
  7:53
• 3
  Baby, Take a Chance With Me
  2:50
• 4
  Pennies From Heaven
  2:24
• 5
  Spur of the Moment
  8:28
• 6
  What Love?
  15:22
• 7
  Honey, Take a Chance With Me
  3:14
• 8
  I've Got You Under My Skin
  2:24
• 9
  Thrice Upon a Theme
  6:39
• 10
  Time and Tide
  2:31
• CD 3
• 1
  Bass-Ically Speaking
  4:00
• 2
  Cheek to Cheek
  2:41
• 3
  Four Hands
  8:43
• 4
  Cherokee
  4:50
• 5
  I'm Yours
  4:03
• 6
  Mysterious Blues
  8:42
• 7
  These Foolish Things
  3:16
• 8
  Too Marvellous for Words
  3:35
• 9
  Thrice Upon a Theme
  6:30
• CD 4
• 1
  Hot House
  9:28
• 2
  I Get a Kick Out of You
  2:26
• 3
  I've Got You Under My Skin
  3:19
• 4
  If I Had You
  4:08
• 5
  Lock' Em Up
  6:46
• 6
  Night and Day
  4:08
• 7
  Perdido
  7:54
• 8
  Say It Isn't So
  2:39
• 9
  Weird Nightmare
  3:03
• 10
  Make Believe
  2:42
• 11
  Mingus Fingers
  2:57
• CD 5
• 1
  Lullaby of Birdland
  2:33
• 2
  Me and You Blues
  9:51
• 3
  Memories of You
  3:12
• 4
  Bedspread
  3:04
• 5
  Coffee Pot
  4:07
• 6
  Godchild
  4:10
• 7
  Precognition
  2:45
• 8
  Reincarnation of a Love Bird
  9:12
• 9
  Shuffle Bass Boogie
  2:54
• 10
  Original Faubus Fables
  9:14
• CD 6
• 1
  Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  4:03
• 2
  Salt Peanuts
  7:50
• 3
  Stormy Weather
  3:16
• 4
  Body and Soul
  10:45
• 5
  Can You Blame Me
  2:50
• 6
  Extrasensory Perception
  2:50
• 7
  September Song
  3:31
• 8
  This Can't Be Love
  2:26
• 9
  Wee
  6:54
• 10
  Montage
  2:53
• 11
  Old Devil Moon
  3:49
• CD 7
• 1
  Sure Thing
  2:09
• 2
  What Is This Thing Called Love
  8:06
• 3
  What's This
  2:38
• 4
  Boppin' in Boston
  2:51
• 5
  Bottoms Up
  2:57
• 6
  Four Hands
  8:49
• 7
  Jay
  3:40
• 8
  Old Folks
  3:36
• 9
  Portrait (take 1)
  3:13
• 10
  M D M
  19:14
• CD 8
• 1
  Abstractions
  4:13
• 2
  Embraceable You
  4:22
• 3
  Minor Intrusions
  10:03
• 4
  Cherokee
  4:51
• 5
  Embraceable You
  4:20
• 6
  He's Gone
  3:30
• 7
  Have You Met Miss Jones
  3:00
• 8
  I Remember You
  3:04
• 9
  Jubilee
  3:54
• 10
  Paris in Blue
  3:14
• 11
  Pipe Dream
  3:13
• CD 9
• 1
  Ain't Jivin' Blues
  2:54
• 2
  All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mot
  8:35
• 3
  I'll Remember April
  3:20
• 4
  Drum Conversation
  4:19
• 5
  It's You or No One
  4:05
• 6
  Little White Lies
  3:46
• 7
  Story of Love
  2:52
• 8
  Sure Thing
  2:11
• 9
  What Is This Thing Called Love
  7:58
• 10
  Vassarlean
  6:35
• CD 10
• 1
  The Spur of the Moment / Echonitus
  8:36
• 2
  Time After Time
  4:11
• 3
  Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
  3:48
• 4
  Folk Forms No. 1
  13:04
• 5
  I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
  2:53
• 6
  Lullaby of Birdland
  2:34
• 7
  R & R
  11:50
• 8
  Swedish Pastry
  2:27
• 9
  Untitled Blues
  2:35

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Release credits

• Alex Megyesy
  tenor saxophone [8.6, 9.7]
• Allen Smith
  trumpet [9.7, 8.6]
• Andy Peele
  trumpet [9.7, 8.6]
• Art Taylor
  drums (drum set) [6.1, 3.1]
• Billy Taylor
  piano [1]
• Bob Lowry
  trombone [4.8, 8.6, 7.4, 9.7]
• Bob Olney
  alto saxophone [9.7, 8.6], clarinet [9.7, 8.6], flute [9.7, 8.6]
• Bob d’Orleans
  recording [7.10, 9.2, 9.10, 1.5, 5.2, 5.8, 10.3, 10.7, 3.6, 4.5]
• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone [7.10, 9.10, 4.5]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone [2.7, 4.10, 1.10, 5.4, 7.10, 8.11]
• Bud Hooven
  alto saxophone [8.6, 9.7]
• Bud Powell
  piano [2.2, 4.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.9, 9.8, 6.1, 6.9, 1.1-2]
• Buddy Collette
  alto saxophone [2.7, 4.10-11, 1.10, 8.11, 5.4, 3.7], clarinet [1.10, 3.7, 4.10-11, 2.7, 8.11, 5.4]
• Buddy Harper
  guitar [4.9, 2.3, 5.9, 9.1]
• Cal Tjader
  drums (drum set) [9.7, 8.6]
• Charles McPherson
  alto saxophone [4.5, 9.10, 5.8, 7.10]
• Charles Mingus
  bass [1.2, 2.2], double bass [4.1, 4.5, 4.8-11, 9.1-2, 9.7-8, 9.10, 3.1, 3.6-7, 5.2, 5.4, 5.8-9, 7.4, 7.10, 2.3-5, 2.7, 10.3, 10.5, 10.7, 8.1-2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.9, 8.11, 6.3, 6.9, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.6-7, 1.10], instrument arranger [2], piano [5], vocal [4]
• Charlie Parker
  alto saxophone [4.1, 6.9, 1.2, 2.2]
• Chuck Thompson
  drums (drum set) [3.7, 4.11]
• Claude Trenier
  vocal [9.1, 2.3, 2.7, 4.9-10]
• Clem DeRosa
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 8.1, 6.3], tambourine [6.3, 8.1, 2.5]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set) [4.5, 5.8, 1.5, 7.10, 9.2, 9.10]
• Dante Perfumo
  flute [8.6, 9.7]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [6.9, 1.2, 2.2, 4.1]
• Don Smith
  tenor saxophone [8.6, 9.7]
• Donn Trenner
  piano [4.8, 7.4]
• Elmer "Buzz" Wheeler
  piano [2.4, 1.7]
• Eric Dolphy
  alto saxophone [9.2, 1.5, 10.7, 3.6, 7.10, 4.5], bass clarinet [5.8, 4.5, 9.10, 7.10], flute [5.8, 7.10]
• Floris Nico Bunink
  piano [5.8, 7.10, 9.10]
• Gene Porter
  baritone saxophone [2.3, 4.9, 5.9, 9.1], clarinet [9.1, 2.3, 4.9, 5.9]
• George Duvivier
  bass [1]
• Hawes Coleman
  trombone [9.7, 8.6]
• Helen Carr
  vocal [8]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [4.9, 5.9, 2.3, 9.1]
• Herb Caro
  baritone saxophone [2.4, 1.7, 8.6, 9.7], tenor saxophone [7.4, 4.8]
• Herb Gayle
  vocal [2.4, 8.6]
• Jackson Wiley
  cello [8.1, 6.3]
• Jean McGuire
  cello [9.7, 8.6]
• Jimmy Bunn
  piano [3.7, 4.11]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone [10.7, 3.6, 7.10]
• Jo Jones
  drums (drum set) [3.6, 5.2, 10.3, 10.7]
• John Anderson
  trumpet [8.11, 1.10, 5.4, 4.10, 2.7]
• John Coppola
  trumpet [9.7, 8.6]
• John LaPorta
  alto saxophone [8.1, 2.5, 6.3]
• John Plonsky
  trumpet [2.3, 4.9, 5.9, 9.1]
• Johnny Berger
  drums (drum set) [7.4, 4.8], percussion [8.6, 9.7]
• Johnny Haig
  trombone [9.7, 8.6]
• Karl George
  trumpet [2.3, 2.7, 4.9-10, 1.10, 5.4, 5.9, 8.11, 9.1]
• Lady Will Carr
  piano [2.7, 4.10, 5.4, 8.11, 1.10]
• Lee Young
  drums (drum set) [5.4, 5.9, 9.1, 2.3, 2.7, 4.9-10, 1.10, 8.11]
• Lonnie Hillyer
  trumpet [7.10, 9.10, 4.5, 5.8]
• Louis Speigner
  guitar [2.7, 8.11, 1.10, 5.4, 4.10]
• Lucky Thompson
  tenor saxophone [4.9, 5.9, 9.1, 2.3]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [9.8, 8.2, 8.4, 8.9, 2.2, 1.1-2, 6.9, 4.1]
• Morrie Stewart
  tenor saxophone [8.6, 9.7]
• Nat Hentoff
  producer [4.5, 7.10, 3.6, 10.3, 10.7], task [3.6, 9.2, 9.10, 1.5, 5.2, 5.8]
• Paul Bley
  piano [5]
• Red Norvo
  vibraphone [1.6, 10.5]
• Richard Wyands
  piano [9.7, 8.6]
• Roy Eldridge
  trumpet [10.3, 10.7, 3.6, 5.2]
• Tal Farlow
  guitar [1.6, 10.5]
• Ted Curson
  trumpet [4.5, 1.5, 5.8, 7.10, 9.2, 9.10]
• Teo Macero
  tenor saxophone [2.5, 8.1, 6.3]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [8.1, 6.3, 2.5]
• The Red Norvo Trio
  performer [6]
• Tommy Alexander
  trumpet [4.8, 7.4]
• Tommy Flanagan
  piano [3.6, 5.2, 10.3, 10.7]
• Vernon Carlson
  trumpet [8.6, 9.7]
• Warren Thompson
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 1.7]
• Wilbert Baranco
  piano [2.3, 4.9, 5.9, 9.1]
• William “Brother” Woodman
  baritone saxophone [5.4, 8.11, 2.7, 1.10, 4.10], tenor saxophone [8.11, 1.10, 5.4, 4.10, 2.7]
• Willie Smith
  alto saxophone [9.1, 4.9, 2.3, 5.9]
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Issues

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  Mysterious Blues

  10x CD
  2007