2 CD. Noto album del band leader e jazzista inglese, registrato dal vivo al Ronnie Scott, Londra, nel 1972.

Album di Smooth Jazz prodotto e registrato sotto la direzione dello specialista Brian Tarquin. Partecipano alcuni dei migliori chitarristi ( jazz ma anche rock ) della scena attuale. Dall'australiano Frank Gambale allo specialista in smooth jazz Chuck Loeb, dall'ex Dire Straits Hal Lindes a Denny Jiosa.

Il nuovo album del grande bassista, questa volta con la Big Band. Una super band in cui suonano musicisti come James Burton, Steve Davis, Ron Blake, Rodney Jones, Brandon Lee, Dan Pratt, Melissa Walker, Steve Wilson, Brandee Younger. Tra i brani interpretati: Mr. Bojangles, Full House, In The Wee Small Hours, Optimism, Gettin' to It.

Album solista del leader degli Animals On Wheels.
?2001 Thrill Jockey

Deluxe 5 CD package. The 42-page booklet is bound in a cardboard binder with a burlap spine. The CDs are in separate burgundy slipcases, bound in with the booklet in the cardboard binder. Slipped into the binder is a 48 x 72 cm poster. The cardboard binder fits into a carboard slipcase up to the burlap covering around the spine.

The BK01 cat# is on the back of the cardboard binder, while the QS01 cat# is on the back of the slipcase

Sticker on the slipcase box states:
"Over 6 hours of music; most tracks on CD for the first time.
Photographs by noted jazz photographer Herman Leonard.
Reproduction of original LP cover art.
A specially designed color poster.
50-page [sic] booklet with essays by two of the world's most respected jazz critics:
a comprehensive overview of Hampton's life and career by Brian Priestley and
an evaluation of the music heard here by Francis Davis.
2 previously unissued tracks."

Kenneth Rexroth reading the want ads recorded by Henry Jacobs for KPFA, 1957. Courtesy of Henry Jacobs.
Management for Virtual Label LLC

Tracks 4, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 © 2005 published by Songs of Windswept Pacific/Tweekland Music (BMI)
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 10 © 2005 published by Thirsty Ear Music (ASCAP)/Songs of Windswept Pacific/Tweekland Music (BMI)

(C) and (P) 2005 Thirsty Ear Recordings, Inc. All rights reserved.

Incidental info:
Part of 'The Blue Series' on Thirsty Ear Recordings.
Released in jewel case with blue transparent plastic tray.