6CD:
Disc 1, 1-4: January 30, 1956, Audio-Video Studios, New York City
Disc 1, 5-8: November 12, 1956, New York City
Disc 2, 1: February 13, 1957, Audio-Video Studios, New York City
Disc 2: 2-6: March 12, 1957, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Disc 3: February 4, 1959, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Disc 4: July 13, 1960, Antibes Jazz Festival, Juan-les-Pins, France
Disc 5: November 6, 1961, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Disc 6: late 1961/early 1962, Nesuhi Ertegun's office, Atlantic Records, New York City

Original issue (year):
Disc 1, 1-4: Atlantic 1237 as "[r=732591]" (July 1956)
Disc 1, 5-8: Atlantic 1274 as Teddy Charles' "[r=4798232]" (June 1958)
Disc 2, 1,3,5,6: Atlantic 1260 as "[r=858414]" (August 1957)
Disc 2, 2,4; Disc 5, 3,4,9: Atlantic 1416 as "[r=2124452]" (June 1964)
Disc 3, 1-6: Atlantic 1305 as "[r=3496796]" (March 1960)
Disc 3, 7-10: previously unissued
Disc 4: Atlantic 2-3001 as "[r=604642]" (October 1976)
Disc 5, 1,2,5-8,10: Atlantic 1377 as "[r=708743]" (April 1962)
Disc 6: previously unissued extended interview; edited version originally appeared on CD reissue of "[r=383945]", Atlantic 90667-2 (1988)

(p) 1976 & 1997, (c) 1997 Atlantic Recording Corporation

Tracks 1 to 3, 6, 7 recorded September 20, 1963.
Tracks 4, 5, 8 recorded January 20, 1963.
Track 9 recorded July 30, 1963.

Mastered March 1997 at MCA Studios, New York City.

Tracks 1 to 3, 5 and 6 recorded May 25, 1960 probably at Plaza Sound, New York City;
Tracks 4, 7 and 8 recorded May 24, 1960 at Plaza Sound, New York City.
Notes for track 1: Interpolates "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields)
Notes for track 6: Interpolates "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington-Henry Nemo-John Redmond)

High-resolution, 96kHz, 24-bit digital transfer
Original LP issue: Pre Bird (Mercury, SR 60627)
? & © 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc.

Mastered at Sundazed Studios, Coxsackie, New York

Total Time 58,00

Recorded February 4, 1972 at Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, New York City.