DISCOGRAPHY The session information was taken from the original album liner notes, CD reissue liner notes, interviewees and a number of different discographies: Modern Discography (Modern Jazz: Bebop/Hard Bop/West Coast) by Walter Bruyninckx, The Blue Note Discography by Michael Cuscuna and Michel Ruppli, The Prestige Discography by Michel Ruppli, The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord, The All Music Guide to Jazz by AMG and contributing editors, The Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide by Tim Neely, The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, the Bielefelder Jazz Katalog and Discogs. ______________________________________________________________________________ [001] May 10, 1957 Hackensack, New Jersey PAUL QUINICHETTE SEPTET Recording Location- Van Gelder Studios Supervision- Bob Weinstock Recording Engineer- Rudy Van Gelder Sonny Red- alto saxophone (except 3), John Jenkins- alto saxophone (except 2,5), Paul Quinichette- tenor saxophone (except 5), Curtis Fuller- trombone (except 3), Mal Waldron- piano, Doug Watkins- bass, Ed Thigpen- drums 1250 (2) Circles 11:50 (Mal Waldron) Prestige PRLP7103 1251 (1) Blue Dots 7:54 (Mal Waldron) - Prestige 45-106 1252 (3) On The Sunny Side Of The Street 5:44 - (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) 1253 (5) My Funny Valentine 7:24 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) OJCCD-076-2 1254 (4) Cool-Lypso 19:08 (Mal Waldron) Prestige PRLP7103 Session released as On The Sunny Side-Prestige PRLP7103 (Mono), OJC076 (LP), OJCCD-076-2, Esquire 32-057 (English), SMJ-6615 (Mono Japanese LP), Carrere Distribution 68.408 (French LP) Note: OJCCD-076-2 incorrectly lists John Jenkins and Paul Quinichette as the horn players on My Funny Valentine. The correct horn line-up is Sonny Red and Curtis Fuller. ______________________________________________________________________________________ [002] May 11, 1957 Hackensack, New Jersey CURTIS FULLER QUINTET Recording Location- Van Gelder Studios Supervision- Ozzie Cadena Recording Engineer- Rudy Van Gelder Sonny Red- alto saxophone, Curtis Fuller- trombone, Hank Jones- piano, Doug Watkins- bass, Louis Hayes- drums 1255 (2) Transportation Blues 8:18 (Curtis Fuller) Prestige PRLP7107 1256-1 (1) Vonce #5 (Young Number Five) 7:40 (Curtis Fuller) - 1256-2 (-) Vonce #5 (Young Number Five) (Curtis Fuller) (unissued) www.sonnyredmusic.com 1 1257-1 (3) Blue Lawson 6:51 (Curtis Fuller) Prestige PRLP7107 1257-2 (-) Blue Lawson (Curtis Fuller) (unissued) 1258 (6) Alicia 5:11 (Curtis Fuller) Status NJST8317, OJCCD-077-2 1259 (5) What Is This Thing Called Love 6:30 (Cole Porter) Prestige PRLP7107 1260 (4) Namely You 9:25 (Johnny Mercer, Gene DePaul) - Session released as New Trombone-Prestige PRLP7107 (Mono), OJC077(LP), OJCCD-077-2, Prestige SHJ-6007 (Japanese), VICJ-23748 (Mono Japanese CD), SMJ-6607 (Mono Japanese LP), Carrere Distribution 68.409 (French LP), VIJJ-30031 (Mono Japanese LP), VICJ-2124 (Mono Japanese CD) Status NJST8317 (Mono) issued as Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley and Kenny Burrell ______________________________________________________________________________________ [003] May 14, 1957 Hackensack, New Jersey CURTIS FULLER QUINTET Recording Location- Van Gelder Studios Supervision- Teddy Charles Recording Engineer- Rudy Van Gelder Sonny Red- alto saxophone (except 2), Curtis Fuller- trombone (except 5), Red Garland- piano, Paul Chambers- bass, Louis Hayes- drums 1261 (4) Slenderella 7:43 (Sylvester Kyner) New Jazz NJLP8277 1262 (3) Cashmere 6:45 (Curtis Fuller) - 1263 (5) Moonlight Becomes You 7:35 (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 1264 (2) Stormy Weather 7:17 (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 1265 (1) Seeing Red 7:00 (Barry Harris) - 1266 (6) Roc And Troll 7:42 (Teddy Charles) - Session released as Curtis Fuller with Red Garland-New Jazz NJLP8277 (Mono), Status 8277 (Mono), OJCCD-1862-2, Prestige SMJ-6297 (Mono Japanese), VICJ-23749 (Mono Japanese CD), LPR-88058 (Japanese) Note: Seeing Red is a Barry Harris composition, as confirmed by Kiane Zawadi. ______________________________________________________________________________________ [004] September 5, 1957 Hackensack, New Jersey CURTIS FULLER/TOMMY FLANAGAN QUINTET Sonny Red- alto saxophone (except 2,4), Curtis Fuller- trombone (except 2,3), Tommy Flanagan- piano, George Tucker- bass, Louis Hayes- drums 70107 (1) Two Ton 4:48 (Curtis Fuller) Regent MG6055 MEDLEY 70108 (2) It's Magic 4:30 (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 70109 (3) My One And Only Love 4:32 (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) - 70110 (4) They Didn't Believe Me 4:37 (Jerome Kern, Anne Caldwell) - 70111 (5) Soul Station 5:42 (Curtis Fuller) - 70112 (6) Club Car 7:15 (Curtis Fuller) - 70113 (7) Upper Berth 8:32 (Frank Foster) - www.sonnyredmusic.com 2 Session released as Jazz...It's Magic-Regent MG6055 (Mono), Savoy MG12209 (Mono), Pye Records NPL.28009 (Mono English LP), Savoy SLJ1158, King Records KIJJ-2005 (Mono Japanese LP), Savoy CDCY-78807, SV0153 (Mono Japanese CD), COCY-9025 (Mono Japanese CD), COCY-78280 (Mono Japanese CD), Arista 22RS-13 (Mono Japanese LP), Arista WAJ-70115 (Mono Japanese LP) _____________________________________________________________________________________ [005] November 12, 1957 Hackensack, New Jersey SONNY RED QUINTET Recording Location- Van Gelder Studios Supervision- Ozzie Cadena Recording Engineer- Rudy Van Gelder Sonny Red- alto saxophone, Pepper Adams- baritone saxophone, Wynton Kelly- piano, Doug Watkins- bass, Elvin Jones- drums (1) Redd's Head 9:09 (Sylvester Kyner) Regent MG6069 Savoy MG12215 (5) Watkins Products 9:30 (Doug Watkins) - - (6) Stop 8:19 (Don Lanphere) Savoy MG12123 Session released as Art Pepper/Sonny Redd, Two Altos-Regent MG6069 (Mono), Savoy MG12215 (Mono), Regent 22OR-50508 (Mono Japanese LP), King Records KIJJ-6 (Mono Japanese LP), Savoy WL70389 (German), COCY-9814 (Mono Japanese CD), Savoy SV-0161 (Mono Japanese CD), COJY-9145 (Mono Japanese LP), COCB-50281 (Japanese CD), COCB-53403 (Mono Japanese CD), COCB-53935 (Japanese CD) Rest of Two Altos is by Art Pepper. Savoy MG12123 titled Jazz is Busting Out All Over is by Frank Wess, rest of LP by others. Note: Pepper Adams is certain this session was done at Van Gelder’s in New Jersey, even though it is listed as Chicago in some discographies (Savoy and Jespen). ______________________________________________________________________________________ [006] September 25, 1958 Detroit, Michigan JOE BRAZIL JAM SESSION Recording Location- Joe Brazil’s house (basement) Donald Towns- trumpet, Joe Brazil- alto saxophone, Sonny Red Kyner- alto saxophone, John Coltrane- tenor saxophone (except 2), Joe Henderson- tenor saxophone, Hugh Lawson- piano, Ernie Farrow- bass, Roy Brooks- drums (1) Now's The Time 18:46 (Charlie Parker) (unreleased) (2) Woody'n You 7:25 (Dizzy Gillespie) - (3) Paul's Pal 12:20 (Sonny Rollins) - (4) Sweet Georgia Brown 11:40 - (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey, Ben Bernie) Note: This session is on a private tape that belonged to Joe Henderson. www.sonnyredmusic.com 3 ______________________________________________________________________________ [007] December 5, 1959 Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey SONNY RED QUARTET Recording Location- Van Gelder Studios Producer- Alfred Lion Recording Engineer- Rudy Van Gelder Sonny Red- alto saxophone, Wynton Kelly- piano, Sam Jones- bass, Roy Brooks- drums tk.3 (1) Bluesville 5:49 (Sylvester Kyner) BLP4032 BN45-1761 tk.5 (2) Stay As Sweet As You Are 6:12 - - (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) tk.10 (3) I've Never Been In Love Before 5:20 (Frank Loesser) - tk.12 (5) Blues In The Pocket 6:29 (Sylvester Kyner) - BN45-1762 tk.13 (6) Alone Too Long 2:56 (Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields) - - tk.14 (-) Alone Too Long (Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields) (unissued) tk.19 (4) Nadia 4:04 (Sylvester Kyner) - (-) All The Things You Are (unissued) (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) Session released as Out of the Blue-Blue Note BLP4032 (Mono), ST84032 (Stereo), Pathe Marconi PM252 (Mono French LP), King K18P-9243 (Mono Japanese LP), TOCJ-4032, TOCJ-5941, TOCJ-9093 (Japanese 24 Bit RVG Edition CD), CDP 7243-8-52440-2-5 (U.S Blue Note Connoisseur Series), Classic Records BN 4032 (Mono 200G LP), EMI Japan DBLP-029 (Mono Japanese LP), UCCQ-9501 (Japanese 80th Anniversary CD) BN45-1761/BN45-1762-Blue Note 45 singles Note: Blue Note CD 8-52440-2 incorrectly lists (3) as I’ve Been In Love Before. ______________________________________________________________________________________ [008] January 23, 1960 Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey SONNY RED QUARTET Recording Location- Van Gelder Studios Producer- Alfred Lion Recording Engineer- Rudy Van Gelder Sonny Red- alto saxophone, Wynton Kelly- piano, Paul Chambers- bass, Jimmy Cobb- drums tk.3 (12) Blues For Kokee 5:34 (Sylvester Kyner) CD 8-52440-2 tk.7 (13) You're Driving Me Crazy 5:27 (Walter Donaldson) - tk.8 (8) Stairway To The Stars 6:17 BLP4032 - (Frank Signorelli, Matt Malneck, Mitchell Parish) tk.10 (9) Crystal 5:35 (Sylvester Kyner) - tk.13 (7) The Lope 5:13 (Sylvester Kyner) - - tk.15 (10) Lost April 6:46 (Emil Newman, Herbert Spencer, Edgar DeLange) - tk.17 (11)You're Sensational 6:28 (Cole Porter) www.sonnyredmusic.com 4 Note: Stairway To The Stars and The Lope only found on Blue Note BLP4032 (Mono), ST84032 (Stereo), Pathe Marconi PM252 (Mono French LP), King K18P-9243 (Mono Japanese LP), TOCJ-4032, TOCJ-5941, TOCJ-9093 (Japanese 24 Bit RVG Edition CD), CDP 7243-8-52440-2-5 (U.S Blue Note Connoisseur Series), Classic Records BN 4032 (Mono 200G LP), EMI Japan DBLP-029 (Mono Japanese LP), UCCQ-9501 (Japanese 80th Anniversary CD). All tracks are found on CDP 7243-8-52440-2-5 (U.S Blue Note Connoisseur