Notes: | All selections (except for those on CD 3) previously released. Compact discs. Program notes by Woody Shaw and Michael Cuscuna (19 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.), inserted in container. Woody Shaw, trumpet, flugelhorn and cornet ; with, variously: Joe Henderson, Frank Wess, Art Webb, James Vass, Carter Jefferson, Steve Turre, Janice Robinson, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Clint Houston, Victor Lewis, Sammy Figueroa, Armen Halburin, Lois Colin, Charles Sullivan, Rene McLean, James Spaulding, Curtis Fuller, Buster Williams, Azzedin Weston, Nobu Urushiyama, George Cables, Gary Bartz, Larry Willis, Stafford James, Nana Vasconcelos, Judi Singh, Mulgrew Miller, and Tony Reedus. Recorded in New York City at CBS 30th Street Studio (CD 1), live at the Village Vanguard (CDs 2-3), CI Recording Studio (CD 4), and Columbia Studios (CD 4-5), and Right Track Studios (CD 6) from 15 Dec. 1977 to 17 Mar. 1981.
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