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Table of Contents:

• Disc 1. Opening remarks / Jimmy Lyons ; The star spangled banner / Dizzy Gillespie (1:41)
• For all we know / Dave Brubeck Quartet (6:12)
• Fine and mellow / Billie Holiday (3:30)
• Blueport / Gerry Mulligan Quartet (10:40)
• Blue Daniel / Cannonball Adderley Quintet (6:32)
• Straight no chaser / Thelonious Monk Quartet, with the Festival Workshop Ensemble (11:16)
• Chelsea Bridge / Duke Ellington Orchestra (3:54)
• Don't let it happen here / Charles Mingus Octet (8:52)
• Younger than springtime / Oscar Peterson Trio (5:48)
• I wish I knew / Carmen McRae (3:25)
• Manteca / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, with Jon Faddis (9:22).
• Disc 2. 'Round midnight / Modern Jazz Quartet (7:28)
• Up with the lark / Bill Evans Duo (6:40)
• Tribute to Ralph Gleason (blues improvisation) / Dizzy Gillespie (6:41)
• I needs to be bee'd with / Count Basie Orchestra (4:36)
• Goin' to Chicago / Joe Williams (5:06)
• Along came Betty / Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (9:51)
• Fried bananas / Dexter Gordon Quartet (11:58)
• What are you doing the rest of your life? / Stan Getz, with Woody Herman Orchestra (7:20)
• Little sunflower / Freddie Hubbard Sextet (6:42).

• Disc 3. Think of one / Wynton Marsalis Quintet (4:25)
• If you could see me now / Sarah Vaughan (5:56)
• My shining hour / Roy Hargrove Quintet (10:31)
• I've got the world on a string / Shirley Horn (4:11)
• Keep hold of yourself / Sonny Rollins (8:14)
• I loves you, Porgy / Chick Corea Quartet (12:14)
• Home fries / Joshua Redman Band (8:00)
• Cantaloupe Island / Herbie Hancock (10:26).

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Contributors:

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 , performer

Brubeck, Dave , performer

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 , performer

Mulligan, Gerry , performer

Adderley, Cannonball , performer

Monk, Thelonious , performer

Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979 , performer

Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007 , performer

McRae, Carmen , performer

Faddis, Jon , performer

Evans, Bill, 1929-1980 , performer

Williams, Joe, 1918-1999 , performer

Blakey, Art, 1919-1990 , performer

Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990 , performer

Getz, Stan, 1927-1991 , performer

Hubbard, Freddie , performer

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- , performer

Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 , performer

Hargrove, Roy , performer

Horn, Shirley , performer

Rollins, Sonny , performer

Corea, Chick , performer

Redman, Joshua , performer

Hancock, Herbie, 1940- , performer

Duke Ellington Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Modern Jazz Quartet , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Count Basie Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Woody Herman Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Meetings:

Monterey Jazz Festival

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Jazz — California — Monterey

Jazz — 1951-1960

Jazz — 1961-1970

Jazz — 1971-1980

Jazz — 1981-1990

Jazz — 1991-2000

Jazz vocals

Jazz

California — Monterey

1951-2000

Genres:

Live sound recordings

Performers:

Various performers.

Production Credits:

Executive producer, Clint Eastwood ; compilation produced by Orrin Keepnews and Tim Jackson.

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
Recorded 1958-1996.
Liner notes by Clint Eastwood and Zan Stewart ([22] pages : illustrations)--laid in container.
From the collection of Robert Scribner.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Malpaso/Warner Bros.: 9 46703-2

OCLC Numbers:

37793618