The Quintessence: New York to Los Angeles 1939-1941

Original Release Date:  July 30, 2002

Track Listing

• 1. Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland)
• 2. Stardust
• 3. Haven't Named It Yet
• 4. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
• 5. Flying Home
• 6. Memories of You
• 7. Honeysuckle Rose
• 8. Pagin' the Devil
• 9. Good Morning Blues
• 10. Till Tom Special
• 11. I Surrender Dear
• 12. These Foolish Things
• 13. Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special)
• 14. Six Appeal (My Daddy Rocks Me)
• 15. Ad Lib Blues (Improvisation)
• 16. I Never Knew
• 17. Gone with "What" Wind
• 18. Royal Garden Blues
• 19. Benny's Bugle 1/Benny's Bugle 2/Benny's Bugle 3/Benny's Bugle 4
• 20. Wholly Cats
• 21. Breakfast Feud
• 22. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
• 23. I Found a New Baby
• 24. Jamming in Four
• 25. Profoundly Blue
• 26. Solo Flight 1
• 27. Solo Flight 2
• 28. A Smo-o-o-oth One (Waitin' for Benny)
• 29. Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special)
• 30. Swing to Bop (Charlie's Choice)
• 31. Stompin' at the Savoy
• 32. Solo Flight 3

Credits

• Earl Bostic: Sax (Alto)
• Hoagy Carmichael: Composer
• Count Basie: Piano, Composer
• Charlie Christian: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Composer
• Buck Clayton: Trumpet
• Benny Goodman: Clarinet, Composer
• Freddie Green: Guitar
• Lionel Hampton: Composer, Vibraphone
• Jo Jones: Drums
• Cootie Williams: Trumpet
• Lester Young: Sax (Tenor)
• Gus Bivona: Reeds
• Billy Butterfield: Trumpet
• Johnny Guarnieri: Piano
• Edmond Hall: Clarinet
• John Hammond, Sr.: Producer
• Lou McGarity: Trombone
• Jimmy Mundy: Composer
• Edgar Sampson: Composer
• Chick Webb: Composer
• Jimmy McHugh: Composer
• Ken Kersey: Piano
• Andy Razaf: Composer
• Israel Crosby: Bass
• Walter Page: Bass, Composer
• Georgie Auld: Reeds, Sax (Tenor)
• Harry Barris: Composer
• Artie Bernstein: Bass
• Dudley Brooks: Piano
• Big Sid Catlett: Drums
• Kenny Clarke: Guitar
• Cutty Cutshall: Trombone
• Eddie DeLange: Composer
• Nick Fatool: Drums
• Nick Fenton: Bass
• Dorothy Fields: Composer
• Fletcher Henderson: Piano
• Irving Goodman: Trumpet
• Chris Griffin: Trumpet
• Joe Guy: Trumpet
• Clyde Hart: Piano
• J.C. Higginbotham: Trombone
• Gus Kahn: Composer
• Gene Kinsey: Reeds
• Meade "Lux" Lewis: Celeste, Composer
• Jimmy Maxwell: Trumpet
• Pete Mondello: Reeds
• Al J. Neiburg: Composer
• Mitchell Parish: Composer
• Les Robinson: Reeds
• Bob Snyder: Reeds
• Clarence Williams: Composer
• H.C. Williams: Composer
• Spencer Williams: Composer
• Don Waterhouse: Adaptation
• Alec Fila: Trumpet
• Alain Gerber: Collection, Musical Direction, Text
• Art Hickman: Composer
• Harry Jaeger: Drums
• Patrick Frémeaux: Concept
• Noël Hervé: Artistic Consultation
• Harry Link: Composer
• Jack Strachey: Composer
• Gordon Clifford: Composer
• Holt Marvell: Composer
• Doc Daugherty: Composer
• Claude Colombini: Concept
• Bernard Frémeaux: Control Engineer
• Walter Iooss: Bass