First Hour:
  1. Sweetie Cakes [Ernie Wilkins] (3:57)
      Solo: Count Basie-p.
      Personnel: Wendell Culley, Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman-tp; Henry Coker, Bill Hughes, Benny Powell-tb; Marshall Royal-as, cl; Bill Graham-as; Frank Wess-ts, as, fl, cl; Frank Foster-ts, cl; Charlie Fowlkes-bs, bcl; Count Basie-p; Freddie Green-g; Eddie Jones-b; Sonny Payne-d. Fine Sound, NYC, 26 July 1955.
      From: Appril in Paris / Count Basie (Verve)

  2. Bernie's tune [Bernie Miller, Michael Stoller] (13:54)
      Personnel: Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie-tp; Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips-ts; Oscar Peterson-p; Herb Ellis-eg; Ray Brown-b; Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich-d. NYC, 1 November 1955.
      From: Krupa & Rich / Gene Krupa (Verve)

  3. Datr dere [Bobby Timmons] (11:50)
      Personnel: Lee Morgan-tp; Wayne Shorter-ts; Bobby Timmons-p; Jymie Merritt-b; Art Blakey-d. Tokyo Broadcasting System Radio Studio, Tokyo, Japan, 2 January 1961.
      From: A day with Art Blakey, 1961, d.2 / Art Blakey (Kem)

  4. Grass roots [Andrew Hill] (5:39)
  5. Venture inward [Hill] (4:44)
  6. Mira [Hill] (6:17)
      Personnel: Lee Morgan-tp; Booker Ervin-ts; Andrew Hill-p; Ron Carter-b; Freddie Waits-d. Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 5 August 1968.
      From: Grass roots / Andrew Hill (Blue Note)

  7. Spoken introduction [Hank Jones] (0:16)
  8. Blue Monk [Thelonious Monk] (4:46)
  9. Round midnight [Monk] (5:08)
      Personnel: Hank Jones-p. Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley CA, 11 November 1991.
      From: Live at Maybeck Recital Hall / Hank Jones (Concord)

Second Hour:
10. Light blue [Monk] (12:54)
      Personnel: Thad Jones-cnt; Nick Travis-tp; Eddie Bert-tb; Steve Lacy-ss; Phil Woods-as, cl; Charlie Rouse-ts; Gene Allen-bs, cl, bcl; Thelonious Monk-p; Butch Warren-b; Frankie Dunlop-d; Hall Overton-arr. Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, 30 December 1963.
      From: Big band & quartet in concert, d.2 / Thelonious Monk (Columbia)

11. Lizzy's bounce [Curtis Fuller] (5:22)
12. Soon [George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin] (5:34)
13. A lovely way to spend an evening [Jimmy McHugh, Adamson] (6:49)
      Personnel: Curtis Fuller-tb; Hank Mobley-ts; Bobby Timmons-p; Paul Chambers-b; Art Taylor-d. Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack NJ, 16 June 1957.
      From: The opener / Curtis Fuller (Blue Note)

14. Suicide City [Lee Morgan] (7:30)
15. Cunning Lee [Morgan] (6:1)
      Personnel: Lee Morgan-tp; Bennie Maupin-ts; Cedar Walton-p; Reggie Workman-b; Billy Higgins-d. Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 3 May 1968.
      From: ¡Caramba! / Lee Morgan (Blue Note)

16. Boy saxophonist [Dexter Gordon] (4:40)
      Dexter Gordon-monologue, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18 June 1973.
      From: The complete Blue Note Sixties sessions, d.1 / Dexter Gordon
17. You've changed [B. Carey, C. Fischer] (7:26)
      Personnel: Freddie Hubbard-tp; Dexter Gordon-ts; Horace Parlan-p; George Tucker-b; Al Harewood-d. Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 6 May 1961.
      From: Doin' allright / Dexter Gordon (Blue Note)

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