Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band

Original Release Date:  December 1967

Track Listing

• 1. Ground Hog
• 2. New Girl
• 3. Bedouin
• 4. Straight up and Down
• 5. Ready When You Are C.B.
• 6. New Time Shuffle
• 7. Mississippi Dip
• 8. A Taste of Honey
• 9. Time After Time
• 10. Disapproachment [*]
• 11. Tones for Joan's Bones [*]
• 12. Minor League [*]
• 13. Here's That Rainy Day [*]
• 14. Make It Good [*]
• 15. Days of Wine and Roses [*]

Credits

• Pepper Adams: Clarinet, Saxophone, Sax (Baritone), Brass
• Bob Belden: Producer
• Jimmy Cleveland: Trombone
• Duke Pearson: Piano, Arranger, Composer, Director, Producer
• Julian Priester: Trombone
• Marvin Stamm: Trumpet
• Lew Tabackin: Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)
• Bob Cranshaw: Bass
• Randy Brecker: Trumpet
• Garnett Brown: Bass, Trombone, Trombone (Bass)
• Sammy Cahn: Composer
• Burt Collins: Trumpet
• Chick Corea: Composer
• Frank Foster: Arranger, Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)
• Rudy Van Gelder: Engineer
• Al Gibbons: Flute, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto)
• Benny Powell: Trombone, Trombone (Bass)
• Mickey Roker: Drums
• Bobby Scott: Composer
• Joseph J. Shepley: Trumpet
• Jule Styne: Composer
• Joe Shepley: Trumpet
• Joel Brodsky: Photography