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.

Recorded at Nola Penthouse Studios, New York City, November 11th, 1960.

Recorded at the Salle Wagram in Paris on April 17, 1964.
The concert at the Salle Wagram should not be confused with a second concert the following day, Saturday, April 18, at the Theatre Champs-Elysee (which started after midnight and is often dated Sunday, April 19th.) That second concert was released in the US on LP by Prestige/Fantasy under the title [m=239126] in the mid-seventies. The release caused some confusion by adding one track from the first concert at the Salle Wagram and then compounding the confusion by mistitling the track. Although the piece was Mingus' farewell song to Eric Dolphy, "So Long Eric," it was for some unfathomable reason given the title of one of Mingus' best known compositions, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat."

Manufactured and Distributed by M.S. Distributing Co.
? 1996 Jazz Workshop Inc.
© 1996 32 Records.

The tracks of this release can be also found on the 1980s grey market releases [r=2398373] and [r=4402008].