The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Four Moons
  2:23
• 2
  The Gears
  3:06
• 3
  Mars
  2:46
• 4
  Sunset Concerto
  2:03
• 5
  Cyclotron
  3:13
• 6
  October
  3:41
• 7
  Under Capricorn
  2:58
• 8
  Venus
  3:40
• 9
  Lover Man
  5:55
• 10
  Spellbound
  3:18
• 11
  Transition
  5:12
• 12
  A Lion Lives Here
  3:50
• 13
  Timepiece
  3:10
• 14
  Gingersnap
  3:17
• 15
  The Nearness of You
  4:17
• 16
  Lullaby of Birdland
  3:46
• 17
  Ballad for Guitar
  3:53
• 18
  Metropolitan
  2:50
• 19
  Newport News
  4:55
• CD 2
• 1
  Summertime
  4:03
• 2
  Quadrille for Moderns
  3:34
• 3
  Five Impressions of Color: a) Spectrum Violet / b) Sea Green / c) Royal Blue / d) Ebony / e) Spectrum Red
  12:41
• 4
  Life Begins at Midnight
  4:27
• 5
  Night Train to Wildwood
  4:13
• 6
  Threadneedle Street
  4:18
• 7
  Weird Valley
  5:16
• 8
  The Set Break
  4:51
• 9
  Moonlight in Vermont
  4:55
• 10
  Long Ago and Far Away
  4:35
• 11
  The Arab Barber Blues
  9:08
• 12
  Nice Questions
  8:17

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Release credits

• Alfred Lion
  producer [7-12]
• Ed Thigpen
  drums (drum set) [7-12]
• Eddie Bert
  trombone [7-12]
• Gil Mellé
  baritone saxophone [7-12]
• Joe Cinderella
  guitar [7-12]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [7-12]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [7-12]

Issues

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  The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions

  2x CD
  1998