Walk on the Wild Side: Best of the Verve Years

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Walk on the Wild Side
  5:55
• 2
  Blues for J
  5:17
• 3
  The Cat
  3:25
• 4
  Trouble in Mind
  4:23
• 5
  Funky Broadway
  6:41
• 6
  Milestones
  4:10
• 7
  The Christmas Song
  4:32
• 8
  Kenny's Sound
  3:53
• 9
  St. James Infirmary
  5:13
• 10
  Refractions
  4:49
• 11
  The Champ
  6:44
• 12
  Hobo Flats
  4:45
• 13
  Sagg Shootin' His Arrows
  7:02
• 14
  Organ Grinders Swing
  2:13
• CD 2
• 1
  Down by the Riverside
  10:03
• 2
  And I Love You So
  6:18
• 3
  The Boss
  8:51
• 4
  Got My Mojo Workin'
  8:02
• 5
  Groove Drops
  4:16
• 6
  Delon's Blues
  4:50
• 7
  O.G.D. (a.k.a. 'Road Song')
  5:14
• 8
  Ritual
  10:45
• 9
  Monlope (a.k.a. 'Moonlore')
  6:18
• 10
  When Johnny Comes Marching Home
  8:27
• 11
  Blues and the Abstract Truth
  5:24

More by Jimmy Smith

Jimmy Smith’s Finest Hour

Jimmy Smith’s Finest Hour 2000

Cool Blues

Cool Blues 1980

Root Down

Root Down 1972

Christmas Cookin’

Christmas Cookin’ 1964

The Cat

The Cat 1964

Back at the Chicken Shack

Back at the Chicken Shack 1963

Release credits

• Al Cohn
  tenor saxophone [4, 12]
• Art Davis
  double bass [7]
• Arthur Clarke
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Babe Clark
  flute [1], tenor saxophone [1]
• Barry Galbraith
  guitar [1]
• Bernie Glow
  trumpet [1.3, 1.7, 2.6]
• Bill Corea
  French horn [1.3, 2.6]
• Bill Correa
  French horn [3]
• Billy Byers
  arranger [7], conductor [7], trombone [1.3, 1.10, 2.6]
• Bob Ashton
  reeds [1], tenor saxophone [1], woodwind [6]
• Bob Simpson
  engineer [4, 12]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone [1]
• Buddy Childers
  trumpet [10]
• Buddy Lucas
  harmonica [12]
• Carol Kaye
  electric bass guitar [10]
• Chauncey Welsch
  trombone [7]
• Clark Terry
  flugelhorn [1], trumpet [2.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.12]
• Conte Candoli
  trumpet [10]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.12, 2.6]
• Danny Bank
  baritone saxophone [4, 12], flute [4, 12], reeds [1], woodwind [6]
• Danny Stiles
  trumpet [7]
• Doc Severinsen
  trumpet [1]
• Don Butterfield
  tuba [1.3, 2.6]
• Don Corrado
  French horn [7]
• Donald “Duck” Bailey
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Earl Chapin
  French horn [1.3, 1.7, 2.6]
• Ed Shaughnessy
  drums (drum set) [1], percussion [1]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.12, 2.1, 2.6]
• Ernie Tack
  bass trombone [10]
• George Barrow
  baritone saxophone [1], flute [1], tenor saxophone [1]
• George Benson
  guitar [3]
• George Devens
  percussion [7]
• George Dorsey
  alto saxophone [4, 12], flute [4, 12]
• George Duvivier
  bass [2.6, 1.3], double bass [1, 12]
• George Piros
  engineer [5]
• Grady Tate
  drums (drum set) [1.2-3, 1.6-7, 2.1, 2.6-7, 2.9, 2.11]
• Harvey Philips
  tuba [7]
• Howard Roberts
  guitar [10]
• Jerome Richardson
  reeds [1], woodwind [1.6, 2.9]
• Jerry Dodgion
  alto saxophone [1], flute [1], reeds [1], tenor saxophone [1], woodwind [6]
• Jim Buffington
  French horn [2.6, 1.3, 1.7]
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.12, 2.1, 2.6]
• Jimmy Johnson
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Jimmy Maxwell
  trumpet [2.1, 2.6, 1.3, 1.6]
• Jimmy Smith
  Hammond organ [1.1, 1.6, 2.1, 2.7], electronic organ [5], organ [2.2-4, 2.6, 2.9-11, 1.1-5, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12]
• Joe Newman
  flugelhorn [7], trumpet [2.1, 1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.12]
• Joe Wilder
  trumpet [1, 7]
• Johnny Pate
  arranger [5], conductor [5], producer [5]
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar [1.2-3, 1.7, 2.6, 2.9]
• Lalo Schifrin
  arranger [1.3, 2.6], conductor [1.3, 2.6]
• Larry Bunker
  percussion [10]
• Margret Ross
  harp [7]
• Marky Markowitz
  trumpet [1.3, 2.6]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [2.1, 1.6]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [1, 4]
• Morris Secon
  French horn [7]
• Oliver Nelson
  arranger [1, 4, 6, 12], conductor [2.1, 2.9, 1.1, 1.4, 1.10, 1.12], orchestrator [1]
• Oliver Nelson’s Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1, 12]
• Paul Faulise
  bass trombone [7]
• Phil Kraus
  percussion [1.3, 2.6]
• Phil Woods
  alto saxophone [1, 3-4, 12], flute [1], reeds [1], tenor saxophone [1], woodwind [6]
• Plas Johnson
  tenor saxophone [10]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [1.4, 1.12, 2.1]
• Ray Alonge
  French horn [2.6, 1.3]
• Ray Barretto
  congas [7]
• Ray Beckenstein
  woodwind [9]
• Ray Brown
  double bass [10]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [4, 12]
• Richard Davis
  double bass [1.6, 2.1, 2.9]
• Robert Ashton
  flute [1], tenor saxophone [1]
• Rudy van Gelder
  engineer [1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 2.6]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [2.6, 1.3]
• Thad Jones
  arranger [2], conductor [2], trumpet [1.3, 2.6]
• Tom Mitchell
  bass trombone [1, 4, 7, 12]
• Tom Scott
  reeds [10]
• Tony Studd
  bass trombone [2.1, 2.6, 1.3, 1.6]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [2.6, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.12]
• Val Valentin
  engineer [4, 12]
• Wes Montgomery
  guitar [1.6, 2.1, 2.7]
• Willie Rodriguez
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Zoot Sims
  tenor saxophone [4, 12]
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Issues

• W
  Walk on the Wild Side: Best of the Verve Years

  2x CD
  26 September 1995