Boxset / Compilation · 1976
Tracklist
A1 Things Ain't What They Used To Be 3:41
A2 Open Wider Please 4:48
A3 I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good 3:15
A4 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 3:03
A5 How Come You Do Me Like You Do 2:29
A6 Bluish Grey 3:10
A7 The Elder 5:10
B1 Bewitched 3:34
B2 Kenie-Konie 6:03
B3 Bluish Grey 4:35
B4 Wild Deuce 3:18
B5 Green Dolphin Street 2:47
B7 Bantu 3:05
C1 Melba's Blues 6:40
C2 Home Fries 3:00
C3 Grey's Blues 4:54
C4 Nothing But The Truth 3:15
C5 Three-Fourth Blues 5:16
C6 Just Waiting 2:50
D1 R.B.Q. 4:45
D2 Minor On Top 6:40
D3 African Lady 4:30
D4 Hi Fly 9:25
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone – Billy Mitchell (tracks: B3 to C3)
Baritone Saxophone – Charlie Fowlkes (tracks: A1 to B2)
Bass – Art Davis (tracks: B3 to C3), Ed Jones (tracks: A1 to B2), Herman Wright (tracks: C4 to D3)
Congas – Ray Barretto (tracks: B3 to C3)
Drums – Ed Williams (tracks: C4 to D4), Jule Curtis (tracks: B3 to C3), Sonny Payne (tracks: A1 to B2)
Piano – Floyd Morris (tracks: A1 to B2,C4 to D1), Herbie Hancock (tracks: D2 to D4)
Piano, Horn [Alto] – Gene Kee (tracks: B3 to C3)
Tenor Saxophone – Billy Mitchell
Trombone – Al Grey, Bennie Powell (tracks: A1 to B2)
Trumpet – David Burns (tracks: C4 to D1), Donald Byrd (tracks: D2 to D4), Henry Boozier (tracks: B3 to C3), Joe Newman (tracks: A1 to B2)
Vibraphone – Bobby Hutcherson (tracks: C4 to D4)
About this release
Chess – 2ACMJ-409 (US)
This album contains material previously released on "The Last Of The Big Plungers" (Cadet 653) (tracks A1 to B2) recorded September 28-29, 1959; "The Al Grey-Billy Mitchell Sextet" (Cadet 689) (tracks B3 to C3) recorded live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, July 6, 1961; and "Snap Your Fingers" (Cadet 700) (tracks C4 to D1 recorded Feb. 19, 1962 and tracks D2 to D4 recorded live at Birdland in New York, January 31, 1962).
Thanks to snobb for the addition