Shorty Rogers
Contours
1- Popo
2- Over the Rainbow
3- Didi
4- Sam and the Lady
5- Apropos
6- Bunny
7- Pirouette
8- Morpo
9- Coop de Graas
10- Infinity Promenade
11- Short Stop
12- Boar - Jibu
13- Contours
14- Tale of an African Lobster
15- Chiquito Loco
16- The Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud

Tracks # 1 - 5 :  8 October 1951 - L.A.
Tracks # 6 & 7 : 12 January 1953 - L.A.
Tracks # 8 :  15 January 1953 - L.A.
Tracks # 9 - 12 :  26 March 1953 - L.A.
Tracks # 13 - 16 :  2 April 1953 - L.A.

TOTAL RUN TIME:  50:55

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Sonny Rollins
Solid

1) Soft Shoe
2) Airegin
3) Oleo
4) Doxy
5) Swingin' for Bumsy
6) Solid
70 Moving Out
8) Silk 'n' Satin
9) More Than You Know
10) The Way You Look Tonight

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Pee Wee Russell & Coleman Hawkins
Jazz Reunion
1- All Too Soon
2- 28th and 8th
3- What Am I Here For?
4- If I Could Be With You One Hour
5- Tin Tin Deo
6- Mariooch

Tracks # 1 - 6 : February 1961 and/or 1963 (?)

w/ Bob Brookmeyer (tb), Emmett Berry (tp), Nat Pierce (p), Miolt Ninton (b), and Jo Jones (d)

TOTAL RUN TIME: 45:38

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Sonny Stitt

Stitt's It

1- Elora
2- Afternoon in Paris
3- Teapot
4- Blue Mode
5- All God's Chillun nGot Rhythm
6- Sonny Side 
7- Bud's Blues
8- Sunst
9- Fine and Dandy
10- I Want To Be Happy
11- Taking A Chance of Love
12- P.S. I Love You
13- This Can't Be Love
14- Can't We Be Friends
15- Liza ( All the Clouds I'llo Roll Away)
16- Imagination
17- Cherokee
18- After You've Gone
19- Our Very Own
20- Stitt's It
21- Cool Mambo
22- Blue Mambo
23- Sonny Sounds 
24- Ain't Misbehavin'
25- Later

Tracks 1 - 4:   17 October 1949
Tracks5 - 8 :  11 December 1949
Tracks 9 - 11:  26 January 1950
Tracks 12 - 15: 1 February 1951
Tracks 16 & 17: 15 December 1950
Tracks 18 & 19:  8 October 1950
Tracks 20 - 23 :  25 March 1952
Tracks 24 & 25 :  17 February 1950
w/ JJ Johnson (tb), John Lewis (p), Max Roach (d), Bud Powell (p), Curly Russell (b) and others

TOTAL RUN TIME:  72:22

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Cecil Taylor
Port of Call

1- Air (Taylor)*
2- This Nearly Was Mine (HammersteinII-Rodgers)
3- Port of Call (Taylor)
4- E.B. (Taylor)
5- Lazy Afternoon (Latouche-Moross)*
6- Cindy's Main Mood (Neidlinger)
7- Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Ellington)

w/ Buell Neidlinger (b), *Archie Shepp (ts), Billy Higgins (d). and others

Tracks 1 - 5: NYC, 19 November 1960
Track 6: NYC, 9 January 1961
Track 7: NYC, 10 January 1961

TOTAL RUN TIME:  63.58

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Clarence Williams
Take Your Black Bottom Dance Outside  
1- Would Ja?
2- Senegalese Stomp
3- Cushion Foot Stomp
4- P.D.Q. Blues
5- Baltimore
6- Take Your Black Bottom Dance Outside
7- You'll Long For Me (Whenh the Cold Wind Blows)
8- Yama Yama Blues
9- Church Street Sobbin' Blues
10- Close Fit Blues
11- Shake It Down
12- Red River Blues
13- Mountain City Blues
14- Freeze Out
15- Railroad Rhythm

Tracks # 1 - 4 :  12 December 1926

Tracks # 5 & 6 :  27 April 1927
Tracks #  7 : 18 August 1927
Tracks # 8 & 9 :  25 November 1927
Tracks # 10 :  12 January 1928
Tracks # 11 & 12 :  23 May 1928
Tracks # 13 :  6 April 1929
Tracks # 14 :  26 August 1929
Tracks # 15 :  26 December 1929

w/ Tommy Ladnier, Edward "Ed" Allen (cn), Arville Harris, Coleman Hawkins, Russell Procope (reeds), Buster Baily (cl), Cyrus St. Clair (tba)

EXCELLENT QUALITY TRANSFERS = GREAT AUDIO FIDELITY (FOR 1920S RECORDINGS)

TOTAL RUN TIME: 44:10
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Mary Lou Williams
Conversation

1- 8th Avenue
2- Medley: What's Your Story Morning Glory/
    Ghost of Love
3- Limehouse Blues
4- Boogie Misterioso
5- Conversatoin (Jump Caprice)
6- Humoresque
7- Waltz Boogie
8-  All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
9- Hesitation Boogie
10- Just an Idea
11- Just you, Just Me
12- O.W.
13- Mary Waltz
14- Just You, Just Me
15- Lullaby of the Leaves
16- Monglowo
17- Why
18- N.M.E.
19- Blues

all compositions by Williams except 6, 8, 11, 14 - 17 &19

w/ June Rotenberg (b), Mary Osborne (g), Bridget O'Flynn (d), Don Byas (ts) and others

Tracks 1 - 3: NYC, 7 March 1944
Tracks 4 & 5: NYC, 24 July 1946
Tracks 6 - 9: NYC, 7 October 1946
Tracks 10 & 11: NYC, late 1947
Tracks 12 - 19: Paris, 2 December 1953

TOTAL RUN TIME: 61:59

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