tracks 1, 2 contrabass Bill Crow
tracks 3 to 5 contrabass Carson Smith
tracks 9, 10 contrabass Georg Riedel
tracks 11, 12 contrabass Gunnar Johnson
tracks 6, 7 contrabass Pierre Michelot
tracks 8 contrabass Steve Swallow
tracks 9, 10 drums Egil Johansen
tracks 11, 12 drums Kenneth Fagerlund
tracks 1, 6, 7 drums Kenny Clarke
tracks 3 to 5, 8 drums Larry Bunker
tracks 2 drums Mousey Alexander
tracks 7 guitar Jimmy Gourley
tracks 1, 2 guitar Jimmy Raney
photography by [foto de copertina] Carlo Pieroni
tracks 11, 12 piano Bobo Stenson
tracks 1, 2 piano Duke Jordan
tracks 9, 10 piano Jan Johansson
tracks 6 piano Martial Solal
tracks 7 piano René Urtreger
producer Paolo Piangiarelli
tracks 11, 12 tenor saxophone Erik Nordström
tenor saxophone Stan Getz
tracks 3 to 5 trumpet Chet Baker
tracks 8 vibraphone Gary Burton
Recorded At Birdland
Recorded At The Haig
Recorded At Koseinenkin Kaikan
CD fuori commercio allegato a musica Jazz n. 12/92.
[Out of commerce CD attached to Jazz music n. 12/92.]

Tempo totale 74'54.
1952-70 Unreleased.

[Uncredited] The performances recorded at The Haig Club (tracks 3, 4, and 5) are the same ones found on [m800191]. According to that release, the recording date was June 12 1953, not the 16th.

Track 1: New York, Birdland, 13 novembre 1952.
Track 2: New York, Birdland, 2 dicembre 1952.
Track 3, 4, 5: Los Angeles, The Haig Club, 16 giugno 1953.
Track 6: Paris, tardo 1958.
Track 7: Paris, tardo 1959.
Track 8: Tokyo, Koseinkin Hall, 18 luglio 1965.
Track 9, 10: Bangkok, Hotel Rama, 11 novembre 1967.
Track 11, 12: Göteborg, 6 aprile 1970.
Matrix / Runout: W 40.2 PHC
Rights Society: S.I.A.E.