Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

Original Release Date:  1993

Track Listing

• 1. Focus on Sanity
• 2. Chronology
• 3. Peace
• 4. Congeniality
• 5. Lonely Woman
• 6. Monk and the Nun
• 7. Just for You
• 8. Eventually
• 9. Una Muy Bonita
• 10. Bird Food
• 11. Change of the Century
• 12. Music Always
• 13. The Face of the Bass
• 14. Forerunner
• 15. Free
• 16. The Circle With a Hole in the Middle
• 17. Ramblin'
• 18. Little Symphony
• 19. The Tribes of New York
• 20. Kaleidoscope
• 21. Rise and Shine
• 22. Mr. and Mrs. People
• 23. Blues Connotation
• 24. I Heard It Over the Radio
• 25. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
• 26. Revolving Doors
• 27. Brings Goodness
• 28. Joy of a Toy
• 29. To Us
• 30. Humpty Dumpty
• 31. The Fifth of Beethoven
• 32. Motive for Its Use
• 33. Moon Inhabitants
• 34. The Legend of Bebop
• 35. Some Other
• 36. Embraceable You
• 37. All
• 38. Folk Tale
• 39. Poise
• 40. Beauty Is a Rare Thing
• 41. First Take
• 42. Free Jazz
• 43. Proof Readers
• 44. W.R.U.
• 45. Check Up
• 46. T. & T.
• 47. C. & D.
• 48. R.P.D.D.
• 49. The Alchemy of Scott Lafaro
• 50. Eos
• 51. Enfant
• 52. Ecars
• 53. Cross Breeding
• 54. Harlem's Manhattan
• 55. Mapa
• 56. Abstraction
• 57. Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross): Variant I; ...

Credits

• Gary Stewart: Photography
• Don Cherry: Trumpet, Cornet, Trumpet (Pocket), Liner Notes
• Eddie Costa: Vibraphone
• Eric Dolphy: Flute, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto)
• Bill Evans: Piano
• Jim Hall: Guitar
• Billy Higgins: Drums
• John Lewis: Producer
• Robert Didomenica: Flute
• Jimmy Garrison: Bass
• George Duvivier: Bass
• Ed Blackwell: Drums
• Yves Beauvais: Liner Notes
• Ornette Coleman: Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Liner Notes
• Joel Dorn: Photography
• Tom Dowd: Engineer
• Nesuhi Ertegun: Producer
• Sticks Evans: Drums
• Danny Goldberg: Photography
• Charlie Haden: Bass, Liner Notes
• Freddie Hubbard: Trumpet
• Scott LaFaro: Bass
• Charles Libove: Violin
• Michael Mazzarella: Research
• Gary Peterson: Photography
• Gunther Schuller: Arranger, Conductor
• Joe Tekula: Cello
• Harry Zaratzian: Viola
• Alvin Brehm: Bass
• Geoff Gans: Art Direction
• Ray Avery: Photography
• William Claxton: Photography
• Stephen Innocenzi: Remastering
• Brigid Pearson: Design
• Michael Ochs: Photography
• Patrick Milligan: Photography
• Brian Schuman: Photography
• Herb Snitzer: Photography
• Peter Lopez: Photography
• Bob Parent: Photography
• Robert Palmer: Liner Notes, Photography
• Mel Lewinter: Photography
• Michael Kull: Photography
• The Contemporary Jazz Ensemble: ?