tracks b2 bass Doug Watkins
tracks b1 bass Eugene Wright
tracks a1 bass Gene Ramey
tracks b3 bass Paul Chambers
tracks a2, a3 bass Red Callender
tracks b4 bass Reggie Workman
tracks a4 bass Tommy Potter
tracks b4 drums Art Blakey
tracks b3 drums Art Taylor
tracks a2 drums Chuck Thompson
tracks a1 drums Jo Jones
tracks b2 drums Max Roach
tracks a4 drums Roy Haynes
tracks a3 drums Roy Porter
tracks b1 drums Wes Landers
graphics Roberto Mariani
tracks a4 piano Al Haig
tracks b4 piano Cedar Walton
tracks a2 piano Dodo Marmarosa
tracks b1 piano Duke Jordan
tracks a3 piano Jimmy Rowles
tracks a1 piano John Lewis
tracks b3 piano Red Garland
tracks b2 piano Tommy Flanagan
tracks a5 tenor saxophone Al Cohn
tracks a3 tenor saxophone Dexter Gordon
tracks b1 tenor saxophone Gene Ammons
tracks b3 tenor saxophone John Coltrane
tracks a1 tenor saxophone Lester Young
tracks b2 tenor saxophone Sonny Rollins
tracks a4 tenor saxophone Stan Getz
tracks a2 tenor saxophone Wardell Gray
tracks b4 tenor saxophone Wayne Shorter
tracks a5 tenor saxophone Zoot Sims
tracks b4 trombone Curtis Fuller
tracks b4 trumpet Freddie Hubbard
Recorded At Birdland
Recorded At Carnegie Hall
Phonographic Copyright (p) SIAE
℗ 1986 S.I.A.E.
Disco fuori commercio allegato al n. 7/86 di Musica Jazz.

I brani del Lato 2 [# B1 to B4] sono pubblicati per gentile concessione della Fonit Cetra.

Da Lester Young, il grande capostipite, ai massimi esponenti di una lunga evoluzione: Wardell Gray Dexter Gordon Stan Getz Al Cohn & Zoot Sims Gene Ammons Sonny Rollins John Coltrane Wayne Shorter [from LP front cover].

#B1 to B4: Courtesy Fonit-Cetra.

Sessions date and location:
# A1: Birdland, New York, January 20, 1951.
# A2: Los Angeles, November 23, 1946.
# A3: New York, December 4, 1947.
# A4: Carnegie Hall, New York, December 24, 1949.
# A5: Birdland, New York, 1951.
# B1: New York, June 28, 1950.
# B2: Hackensack, New Jersey, June 22, 1957.
# B3: New York, August 23, 1957.
# B4: Birdland, New York, June 16, 1963.

Release data in Italian language.

Rights Society: S.I.A.E.
Matrix / Runout: DNST 056651
Matrix / Runout: DNST 056652-2