Eddie Costa, piano and vibraphone
Art Farmer, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Teddy Kotick, bass
Paul Motian, drums

Tracks:
1. Get Out Of The Road (Woods)
2. In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck)
3. Big Ben (Woods)
4. Nature Boy (Ahbez)
5. Blues Plus Eight (Costa)
6. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Rodgers/Hart)
7. Stretch in "F" (Farmer)

No production credits

Phil Woods

Originally " Jimmy RaneyQuintet" (Prestige 203) 
Recorded in New York city, August 11, 1954

Jimmy Raney, guitar
John Wilson, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Bill Crow, bass
Joe Morello, drums

Songs:
1. Stella By Starlight (Young/Washington)
2. Five (Raney)
3. Joanne (Woods)
4. Back And Blow (Woods)

Original session leader Dick Hyman
Recorded March 3, 1959

Dick Hyman, piano
Howard McGhee, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Teddy Kotick, bass
Roy Haynes, drums

Songs:
5. Consternation (Shearing)
6. Lemon Drop (Wallington)
7. The Little Bandmaster (Jones/Farmer)
8. Pee Wee's Dream (Hyman)


** also issued in 1995 on Original Jazz Classics OJCCD 1865-2.

Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery

Jimmy Smith, organ
Wes Montgomery, guitar
Oliver Nelson, arranger and conductor
Phil Woods, alto saxophone and clarinet
Jerry Dodgion, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute and alto flute
Jerome Richardson, tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute and clarinet
Bob Ashton, tenor saxophone, flute and clarinet
Danny Bank, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute and alto flute
Jimmy Cleveland, trombone
Richard Hixon, trombone
Quentin Jackson, trombone
Melba Liston, trombone
Tony Studd, bass trombone
Jimmy Maxwell, trumpet
Joe Newman, trumpet
Ernie Roya, trumpet
Clark Terry, trumpet and flugelhorn
Richard Davis, bass
Grady Tate, drums
Ray Baretto, percussion

Tracks:
1. Down By The Riverside (Traditional)
2. Night Train (Forrest/Washington/Simkins)
3. James And Wes (Smith)
4. 13 [Death March] (McFarland)
5. Baby It's Cold Outside (Loesser)

Neal Hefti And His Orchestra featuring the Neal Hefti Singers

Neal Hefti, arranger and conductor
Ernie Royal, trumpet
Joe Wilder, trumpet
Mel David, trumpet
Frank Rehak, trombone
Billy Byers, trombone
Sonny Russon, trombone
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Jerome Richardson, alto saxophone
Al Cohn, tenor saxophone
Seldon Powell, tenor saxophone
Barry Galbraith, guitar
Lou Stein, piano
George Duvivier, bass
Milt Hinton, bass
Sol Gubin, drums
Charlie Persip, drums
Unidentified singers
Others?

Songs:
1. Kiss Me First (Hefti/Allen)
2. Chug-A-Lug (Hefti)
3. Oh, What A Night For Love (Hefti/Allen)
4. Cherry Point (Hefti)
5. Two For The Blues (Hefti/Hendricks)
6. Li'l Darlin' (Hefti)
7. Ready Rudy (Hefti)
8. Buttercup (Hefti/Hendricks)
9. After Supper (Hefti)
10. Coral Reef (Hefti)
11. Splanky (Hefti)
12. Cool Blue (Hefti/Allen)

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet and leader
Quincy Jones, trumpet
Bama Warwick, trumpet
E. V. Perry, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Jimmy Powell, alto saxophone
Benny Golson, tenor saxophone
Billy Mitchell, tenor saxophone
Marty Flax, baritone saxophone
Melba Liston, trombone
Frank Rehak, trombone
Rod Levitt, trombone
Walter Davis, Jr., piano
Nelson Boyd, bass
Charlie Persip, drums

Tracks:
Disc 1
1. Yesterdays (Harbach/Kern)
2. Night In Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli)
3. Cepao's Samba*
4. Gloria Samba*
5. Adios Muchachos (Sanders/Vedani)
6. Preludio No. 3 (Pansera)
7. Capricio de Amor (Prechi)
8. Vida Mia (Fresedo)
9. Dizzy Introduction (1956)
10. Dizzy Interview
11. Jones Introduction
12. Quincy Jones Interview
13. Woods Introduction
14. Phil Woods Interview

Disc 2
1. Mitchell, Persip, Fraizer Introduction
2. Billy Mitchell, Charlie Persip, Boo Fraizer Interview
3. Golson, Levitt Introduction
4. Benny Golson, Rod Levitt Interview
5. Lalo Introduction
6. Lalo Schifrin Interview
*The samba orchestra in Rio de Janeiro is unknown.

All interviews by Dave Usher
Recorded by Dave Usher during an Official U. S. State Department Tour, July and August 1956

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet and leader
Quincy Jones, trumpet
Bama Warwick, trumpet
E. V. Perry, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Jimmy Powell, alto saxophone
Benny Golson, tenor saxophone
Billy Mitchell, tenor saxophone
Marty Flax, baritone saxophone
Melba Liston, trombone
Frank Rehak, trombone
Rod Levitt, trombone
Walter Davis, Jr., piano
Nelson Boyd, bass
Charlie Persip, drums

Tracks:
1. Groovin' High (Gillespie)
2. Begin The Beguine (Porter)
3. Hey Pete, Let's Eat More Meat (Harding/Gillespie)
4. Wonder Why (Cahn/Brodszky)
5. Because Of You (Hammerstein/Wilkenson)
6. I'm Confessin' (Reynolds/Dougherty/Neiburg)
7. Doodlin' (Silver)
8. My Reverie (Debussy/Clinton)
9. Tin Tin Daeo (Gillespie/Fuller/Pozo)
10. The Champ (Gillespie)

Recorded by Dave Usher during an Official U. S. State Department Tour, July and August 1956

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet and leader
Quincy Jones, trumpet
Bama Warwick, trumpet
E. V. Perry, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Jimmy Powell, alto saxophone
Benny Golson, tenor saxophone
Billy Mitchell, tenor saxophone
Marty Flax, baritone saxophone
Melba Liston, trombone
Frank Rehak, trombone
Rod Levitt, trombone
Walter Davis, Jr., piano
Nelson Boyd, bass
Charlie Persip, drums

Tracks:
1. Cool Breeze (Dameron/Gillespie/Eckstine)
2. Groovin For Nat (Wilkins)
3. I Can't Get Started (Duke/Gershwin)
4. Jessica's Day (Jones)
5. A Night In Tunisia (Paparelli/Gillespie)
6. Seems Like You Just Don't Care (McCoy/Nobel)
7. Flamingo (Grouya/Anderson)
8. Stella By Starlight (Young/Washington)
9. School Days (Edwards/Cobb)
10. Manteca (Gillespie)

Recorded by Dave Usher during an Official U. S. State Department Tour, July and August 1956

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet and leader
Joe Gordon, trumpet
Quincy Jones, trumpet
E.V. Perry, trumpet
Carl Warwick, trumpet
Melba Liston, trombone
Frank Rehak, trombone
Rod Levitt, bass trombone
Jimmy Powell, alto saxophone
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Billy Mitchell, tenor saxophone
Ernie Wilkins, tenor saxophone
Marty Flax, baritone saxophone
Walter Davis, Jr., piano
Nelson Boyd, bass
Charli Persip, drums

Tracks:
1. Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat (Gillespie/Harding/Peterson
2. Yesterdays (Kern/Harback)
3. Tin Tin Deo (Fuller/Pozo)
4. Groovin' For Nat (Wilkins)
5. Annie's Dance (Liston)
6. Cool Breeze (Dameron/Eckstine/Gillespie)
7. School Days (Cobb/Edwards)
8. Stablemates (Golson)
9. That's All (Brandt/Haymes)
10. Groovin' High (Gillespie/Paparelli)

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Tom Harrell, trumpet and flugelhorn
Hal Galper, piano
Steve Gilmore, bass
Bill Goodwin, drums

Songs:
1. Oon-ga-wa (Gillespie)
2. Loose Change (Galper)
3. Whasdishean (Gillespie)
4. 'Round Midnight (Monk)
5. Love For Sale (Porter)

Phil Woods and Chris Swansen

Phil Woods, alto and soprano saxophones
Chris Swansen, Moog LCA synthesizer, Badger polyphonic synthesizer, Badger frequency spectrum generator
Mike Melillo, piano
Steve Gilmore, bass
Bill Goodwin, drums

Tracks:
Side 1
1. Smoke From Medicine Lodge (Swansen)
2. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Porter)
3. Doxy For Snoops (Rollins/Swansen)
4. Time Remembered (Evans)
5. Bloomdido (Parker)

Side 2
1. Samba Noel (Swansen)
2. Crazy Horse (Swansen)
3. Chant (Swansen)