Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 2001Labels: EmArcy, Universal, Gitanes Jazz Productions
Digipak sleeve with 8 pages booklet.Digitally remastered on 24-bit
Art Simmons (tracks 1 to 7): Recorded March 13, 1956 in Paris.
Reissue of the Boîte à Musique 10'' LP 320.
Ronnell Bright (tracks 8 to 15): Recorded June 5, 1958 in Paris.
Reissue of the Polydor LP 46 106.
Compilation (P) 2001 Universal Music S.A., France
(C) 2001 Universal Music S.A., France
Made in the E.U.
Track 9 is miscredited to Johnny Mercer instead of the correct Mercer Ellington.
Duke Ellington had nothing to do with composing Things Ain't What They Used To Be, it is Mercer's song, though it was supposed won in a card game from Johnny Hodges.
Booklet notes in French, and English.