Beauty Is a Rare Thing

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Focus on Sanity
  6:51
• 2
  Chronology
  6:07
• 3
  Peace
  9:04
• 4
  Congeniality
  6:47
• 5
  Lonely Woman
  4:59
• 6
  Monk and the Nun
  5:56
• 7
  Just for You
  3:53
• 8
  Eventually
  4:23
• 9
  Una muy bonita
  6:00
• 10
  Bird Food
  5:30
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Change of the Century
  4:44
• 12
  Music Always
  5:29
• CD 2
• 1
  The Face of the Bass
  6:57
• 2
  Forerunner
  5:15
• 3
  Free
  6:22
• 4
  The Circle With a Hole in the Middle
  4:53
• 5
  Ramblin’
  6:37
• 6
  Little Symphony
  5:16
• 7
  The Tribes of New York
  4:34
• 8
  Kaleidoscope
  6:36
• 9
  Rise and Shine
  6:13
• 10
  Mr. and Mrs. People
  4:42
• 11
  Blues Connotation
  5:18
• 12
  I Heard It Over the Radio
  6:23
• CD 3
• 1
  P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
  5:54
• 2
  Revolving Doors
  4:28
• 3
  Brings Goodness
  6:39
• 4
  Joy of a Toy
  4:57
• 5
  To Us
  4:36
• 6
  Humpty Dumpty
  5:24
• 7
  The Fifth of Beethoven
  6:37
• 8
  Motive for Its Use
  5:41
• 9
  Moon Inhabitants
  4:33
• 10
  The Legend of Bebop
  7:18
• 11
  Some Other
  7:23
• 12
  Embraceable You
  4:56
• 13
  All
  4:30
• CD 4
• 1
  Folk Tale
  4:48
• 2
  Poise
  4:38
• 3
  Beauty Is a Rare Thing
  7:14
• 4
  First Take
  17:05
• 5
  Free Jazz
  37:03
• CD 5
• 1
  Proof Readers
  10:27
• 2
  W.R.U.
  16:27
• 3
  Check Up
  10:11
• 4
  T. & T.
  4:38
• 5
  C. & D.
  13:12
• 6
  R.P.D.D.
  9:40
• 7
  The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro
  9:49
• CD 6
• 1
  Eos
  6:37
• 2
  Enfant
  6:28
• 3
  Ecars
  7:37
• 4
  Cross Breeding
  11:21
• 5
  Harlem’s Manhattan
  8:11
• 6
  Mapa
  9:07
• 7
  Abstraction
  4:10
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss‐Cross): Variant I / Variant II / Variant III / Variant IV
  15:22

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Release credits

• Alvin Brehm
  double bass [7]
• Bill Evans
  piano [8]
• Billy Higgins
  drums (drum set) [1.1-5, 1.8-11, 2.1-5, 4.4-5]
• Charles Libove
  violin [7]
• Charlie Haden
  double bass [2.1-6, 4.4-5, 1.1-5, 1.8-11]
• Dayton “Bones” Howe
  recording [1.9-11, 2.1-3, 2.5]
• Don Cherry
  cornet [1-5, 8], pocket trumpet [1.9-11, 4.4, 2.1-3, 2.5], trumpet [6.1-4, 2.4, 2.6, 5.4]
• Ed Blackwell
  drums (drum set) [6.1-4, 5.4, 4.4, 2.6]
• Eddie Costa
  vibraphone [8]
• Eric Dolphy
  alto saxophone [8], bass clarinet [4.4-5, 6.8], flute [8]
• Freddie Hubbard
  trumpet [4-5]
• Geoffrey Haslam
  mix [6]
• George Duvivier
  double bass [8]
• Harry Zaratzian
  viola [7]
• Jim Hall
  guitar [7-8]
• Jimmy Garrison
  double bass [1-4]
• John Lewis
  task [7]
• Joseph Tekula
  cello [7]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [1.5, 1.9-11, 2.1-3, 2.5], task [7]
• Ornette Coleman
  alto saxophone [6.7-8, 1.1-5, 1.8-11, 2.1-6, 4.4, 5.4], tenor saxophone [1-4]
• Phil Iehle
  recording [6]
• Phil Ramone
  recording [7-8]
• Robert DiDomenica
  flute [8]
• Roland Vamos
  violin [7]
• Scott LaFaro
  bass [4], double bass [4.4, 6.7-8]
• Sticks Evans
  drums (drum set) [7-8]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [2.6, 4.4]
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Issues

• 

  B
  Beauty Is a Rare Thing

  6x CD
  16 November 1993
• B
  Beauty Is a Rare Thing

  6x CD
  1993
• B
  Beauty Is a Rare Thing - The Complete Atlantic Recordings

  Digital Media
  22 March 2005
• 

  B
  Beauty Is a Rare Thing

  6x CD
  16 March 2015