• A complete 1960 performance by the JATP All Stars, featuring Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, and Don Byas on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley, Benny Carter and Leo Wright on alto sax, and J. J. Johnson on trombone, among others.
• Recorded during the same single performance, and originally issued on Verve on 4 separate LPs titled ‘Jazz at the Philharmonic in Europe’, this set appears here on CD for the first time ever. Added as a bonus, is a wonderful complete JATP sextet set recorded at the same venue three years earlier and featuring Eldridge with violinist Stuff Smith and pianist Oscar Peterson.
• Personnel : Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Don Byas, Cannonball Adderley, Benny Carter, Leo Wright, J. J. Johnson, Lalo Schifrin, Art Davis, Chuck Lampkin, Jo Jones, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes, and others - Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, November 21, 1960 On Bonus tracks : Roy Eldridge, Stuff Smith (vln), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Jo Jones - Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden, April 28, 1957.
• 3CD Set - 195:21 mins. - Includes 24-page booklet. |
