Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years

Various Artists

WEA

This 3 CD collection of mainly unreleased material includes a Dexter Gordon performance from 1978 with Eddie Gladden on drums.

Tracks / Musicians

• Opening Remarks - Jimmy Lyons
• The Star Spangled Banner - Dizzy Gillespie
• For All We Know - Dave Brubeck
• Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday
• Blueport - Gerry Mulligan
• Blue Daniel - Cannonball Adderley
• Straight No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
• Chelsea Bridge - Duke Ellington Orchestra
• Don't Let It Happen Here - Charles Mingus
• Younger Than Springtime - Oscar Peterson
• I Wish I Knew - Carmen McRae
• Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie With Jon Faddis
• 'Round Midnight - The Modern Jazz Quartet
• Up With the Lark - Bill Evans
• Tribute to Ralph Gleason - Dizzy Gillespie
• I Needs to Be Bee'd With - Count Basie Orchestra
• Goin' to Chicago - Joe Williams
• Along Came Betty - Art Blakey
• Fried Bananas - Dexter Gordon
• What Are You Doing With the Rest of Your Life? - Stan Getz with Woody Herman Orchestra
• Little Sunflower - Freddie Hubbard
• Think of One - Wynton Marsalis
• If You Could See Me Now - Sarah Vaughan
• My Shining Hour - Roy Hargrove
• I've Got the World on a String - Shirley Horn
• Keep Hold of Yourself - Sonny Rollins
• I Loves You, Porgy - Chick Corea
• Home Fries - Joshua Redman
• Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock

The musicians on Fried Bananas are;

• Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
• George Cables - piano
• Rufus Reid - bass
• Eddie Gladden - drums