Personnel includes: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Dizzy Gillespie (vocals, trumpet, piano); John Jackson (alto saxophone); Fred Culliver, Bob Mabane, Lucky Thompson, Wardell Gray (tenor saxophone); Buddy Anderson, Bob Merrill, Orville Minor, Miles Davis, Howard McGhee (trumpet); Lawrence Anderson, Taswell Baird (trombone); Mitch Miller (oboe); Jay McShann, Al Haig, Sadik Hakim, Dodo Marmarosa, Jimmy Bunn, Duke Jordan, John Lewis, Walter Bishop Jr. (piano); Lucky Enois, Alvin Garrison, Barney Kessel (guitar); Gene Ramey, Curley Russell, Victor McMillan, Bob Kesterson, Red Callender, Tommy Potter, Ray Brown, Percy Heath (bass); Doc West, Sid Catlett, Max Roach, Roy Porter, Don Lamond, Buddy Rich (drums).
Compilation producers: Richard Seidel, Ben Young.
Recorded between 1942 and 1953. Includes liner notes by Carl Woideck.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East).
This is part of the Verve Records Ken Burns JAZZ series.