Strike Up the Band: 1959-1961

Original Release Date:  April 24, 2012

Track Listing

• 1. The Birth of a Band
• 2. Moanin'
• 3. I Remember Clifford
• 4. Along Came Betty
• 5. Tickletoe
• 6. Happy Faces
• 7. Whisper Not
• 8. The Gypsy
• 9. A Change of Pace
• 10. Tuxedo Junction
• 11. Lester Leaps In
• 12. Ghana
• 13. Caravan
• 14. Everybody's Blues
• 15. Cherokee (Indian Love Song)
• 16. Air Mail Special
• 17. They Say It's Wonderful
• 18. Chant of the Weed
• 19. I Never Has Seen Snow
• 20. Eesom
• 21. Pleasingly Plump
• 22. G'wan Train
• 23. Moonglow
• 24. Tone Poem
• 25. You Turned the Tables on Me
• 26. Chinese Checkers
• 27. Love Is Here to Stay
• 28. The Midnight Sun Will Never Set
• 29. Trouble on My Mind
• 30. A Sunday Kind of Love
• 31. Hot Sake [Japan]
• 32. Strike Up the Band [U.S.A.]
• 33. Africana [Africa]
• 34. Meadowlands [Russia]
• 35. Rico Vacilon [Cuba]
• 36. Under Paris Skies [France]
• 37. Mack the Knife [Germany]
• 38. Manolete de Espana [Spain]
• 39. Baia [Brazil]
• 40. Come Back to Sorrento [Italy]
• 41. Swedish Warmland [Sweden]

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Kurt Weill: Composer
• Irving Berlin: Composer
• Tito Puente: Percussion, Arranger
• Benny Bailey: Trumpet
• Jimmy Cleveland: Trombone, Soloist
• Art Farmer: Trumpet, Soloist
• Curtis Fuller: Trombone
• Urbie Green: Trombone
• Erskine Hawkins: Composer
• Budd Johnson: Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Quincy Jones: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Adaptation
• Melba Liston: Trombone, Arranger
• Lee Morgan: Trumpet, Soloist
• Oliver Nelson: Sax (Tenor)
• Joe Newman: Trumpet, Soloist
• Nat Pierce: Arranger
• Bill Potts: Arranger
• Jerome Richardson: Flute, Piccolo, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Les Spann: Flute, Guitar, Soloist
• Bobby Timmons: Composer
• Julius Watkins: French Horn, Soloist
• Lester Young: Composer
• Patti Bown: Piano, Soloist
• Ralph Burns: Arranger
• Ake Persson: Trombone
• Frank Rehak: Trombone
• Ernie Royal: Trumpet
• Nick Travis: Trumpet
• Joe Wilder: Trumpet
• Don Lamond: Drums
• Stu Martin: Drums
• Harold Arlen: Composer
• Sam "The Man" Taylor: Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Moe Wechsler: Piano
• Quentin Jackson: Trombone
• Al Cohn: Arranger
• Wayne Andre: Trombone
• Don Arnone: Guitar
• Danny Bank: Sax (Baritone)
• Ray Brown: Bass
• Billy Byers: Trombone, Arranger
• Kenny Burrell: Guitar
• Buddy Catlett: Bass
• Clark Terry: Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Soloist
• Jimmy Crawford: Drums, Wood Block
• Eddie DeLange: Composer
• Eric Dixon: Flute, Sax (Tenor)
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Ernie Wilkins: Arranger
• Benny Golson: Sax (Tenor)
• Joe Harris: Drums
• Freddie Hubbard: Trumpet
• Milt Hinton: Bass
• Bill Johnson: Composer
• Osie Johnson: Drums
• Lennie Johnson: Trumpet
• Jerry Kail: Trumpet
• Porter Kilbert: Sax (Alto), Soloist
• Jimmy Maxwell: Trumpet
• Michael Olatunji: Percussion
• Clyde Reasinger: Trumpet
• Sahib Shihab: Flute, Sax (Baritone), Soloist
• Zoot Sims: Sax (Tenor), Soloist
• Floyd Standifer: Trumpet
• Juan Tizol: Composer
• Carlos "Patato" Valdes: Percussion
• Frank Wess: Flute, Sax (Alto), Soloist
• Phil Woods: Sax (Alto), Soloist
• Sam Woodyard: Drums
• Joe Lopes: Sax (Alto)
• Tom Mitchell: Trombone
• Harry Edison: Trumpet, Soloist