Beauty Is a Rare Thing

Tracklist

• 1
  Focus on Sanity
  6:51
• 2
  Chronology
  6:03
• 3
  Peace
  9:04
• 4
  Congeniality
  6:47
• 5
  Lonely Woman
  5:02
• 6
  Monk and the Nun
  5:52
• 7
  Just for You
  3:53
• 8
  Eventually
  4:23
• 9
  Una muy bonita
  6:02
• 10
  Bird Food
  5:30
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Change of the Century
  4:44
• 12
  Music Always
  5:31
• 13
  The Face of the Bass
  6:57
• 14
  Forerunner
  5:15
• 15
  Free
  6:19
• 16
  The Circle With a Hole in the Middle
  4:53
• 17
  Ramblin’
  6:36
• 18
  Little Symphony
  5:14
• 19
  The Tribes of New York
  4:34
• 20
  Kaleidoscope
  6:36
• 21
  Rise and Shine
  6:10
• 22
  Mr. and Mrs. People
  4:42
• 23
  P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation)
  5:17
• 24
  I Heard It Over the Radio
  6:23
• 25
  P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
  5:51
• 26
  Revolving Doors
  4:28
• 27
  Brings Goodness
  6:39
• 28
  Joy of a Toy
  4:56
• 29
  To Us
  4:36
• 30
  Humpty Dumpty
  5:24
• 31
  The Fifth of Beethoven
  6:37
• 32
  Motive for Its Use
  5:41
• 33
  Moon Inhabitants
  4:33
• 34
  The Legend of Bebop
  7:18
• 35
  Some Other
  7:23
• 36
  Embraceable You
  4:56
• 37
  All
  4:30
• 38
  Folk Tale
  4:48
• 39
  Poise
  4:38
• 40
  Beauty Is a Rare Thing
  7:14
• 41
  First Take
  16:56
• 42
  Free Jazz (Pts. 1 & 2)
  37:03
• 43
  Proof Readers
  10:27
• 44
  W.R.U.
  16:27
• 45
  Check Up
  10:08
• 46
  T & T
  4:38
• 47
  C. & D.
  13:12
• 48
  R.P.D.D.
  9:40
• 49
  The Alchemy of Scott Lafaro
  9:49
• 50
  EOS
  6:35
• 51
  Enfant
  6:26
• 52
  Ecars
  7:35
• 53
  Cross Breeding
  11:17
• 54
  Harlem’s Manhattan
  8:11
• 55
  Mapa
  9:06
• 56
  Abstraction
  4:10
  4.0 ★
• 57
  Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross)
  15:22

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Release credits

• Alvin Brehm
  double bass [56]
• Bill Evans
  piano [57]
• Billy Higgins
  drums (drum set) [1-5, 8-11, 13-17, 41-42]
• Charles Libove
  violin [56]
• Charlie Haden
  double bass [1-5, 8-11, 13-18, 41-42]
• Dayton “Bones” Howe
  recording [9-11, 13-15, 17]
• Don Cherry
  cornet [1-5, 8], pocket trumpet [9-11, 13-15, 17, 41], trumpet [16, 18, 46, 50-53]
• Ed Blackwell
  drums (drum set) [18, 41, 46, 50-53]
• Eddie Costa
  vibraphone [57]
• Eric Dolphy
  alto saxophone [57], bass clarinet [41-42, 57], flute [57]
• Freddie Hubbard
  trumpet [41-42]
• Geoffrey Haslam
  mix [18]
• George Duvivier
  double bass [57]
• Harry Zaratzian
  viola [56]
• Jim Hall
  guitar [56-57]
• Jimmy Garrison
  double bass [50-53]
• John Lewis
  task [56]
• Joseph Tekula
  cello [56]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [5, 9-11, 13-15, 17], task [56]
• Ornette Coleman
  alto saxophone [1-5, 8-11, 13-18, 41, 46, 56-57], tenor saxophone [50-53]
• Phil Iehle
  recording [18]
• Phil Ramone
  recording [56-57]
• Robert DiDomenica
  flute [57]
• Roland Vamos
  violin [56]
• Scott LaFaro
  bass [46], double bass [41, 56-57]
• Sticks Evans
  drums (drum set) [56-57]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [18, 41]
• Show all credits (27)

Issues

• B
  (Combined release view)
• 

  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