Track listing

1. "Meetin' Place"
2. "The Summary"
3. "The Farewell"
4. "Toledo By Candlelight"
5. "The Great One"
6. "Only For Now"
7. "A Good Time Was Had By All"

Personnel

• Thad Jones
  Thad Jones
  Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...
  
   – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
• Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....
  
   – drums
• Roland Hanna
  Roland Hanna
  Roland Hanna was an American Jazz pianist.Hanna studied classical piano as a boy, but was strongly interested in jazz. This increased after his time in military service.He studied at Eastman School of Music and Juilliard School...
  
   – piano
• Richard Davis – double bass
• George Mraz
  George Mraz
  George Mraz is a jazz bassist and alto saxophonist. He was a member of Oscar Peterson's group, and has worked with Stan Getz, Tommy Flanagan, Chet Baker and many other important jazz musicians...
  
   - double bass
• Steve Gilmore - double bass
• Jerry Dodgion
  Jerry Dodgion
  Jerry Dodgion is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.Dodgion played alto sax in middle school and began working locally in the San Francisco area in the 1950s. He played in bands with Rudy Salvini, John Coppola/Chuck Travis and Gerald Wilson and worked with the Vernon Alley Quartet, who...
  
   – soprano & alto saxophone, flute
• Eddie Xiques – alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute
• Billy Harper
  Billy Harper
  Billy Harper is a Jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.-Biography:...
  
   – tenor saxophone, flute
• Eddie Daniels
  Eddie Daniels
  Eddie Daniels is an American musician. Though he is best known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet....
  
   – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
• Ron Bridgewater - tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
• Frank Foster
  Frank Foster (musician)
  Frank Foster was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s.-Biography:...
  
   - tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Greg Herbert - tenor saxophone
• Lou Marini
  Lou Marini
  Lou Marini, Jr. is an American saxophonist, arranger and composer. He is noted for his work in the jazz, rock, blues and soul music traditions.-Early life and range of musical experience:...
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Pepper Adams
  Pepper Adams
  Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III was a jazz baritone saxophonist and composer. He composed 43 pieces, was the leader on twenty albums, and participated in 600 sessions as a sideman.-Biography:...
  
   – baritone saxophone, clarinet
• Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...
  
   – trumpet, percussion
• Stephen Furtado - trumpet
• Jim Bossy - trumpet
• Lew Soloff
  Lew Soloff
  Lew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973...
  
   - trumpet
• Snooky Young
  Snooky Young
  Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known for his mastery of the plunger mute, with which he was able to create a wide range of sounds.-Biography:...
  
   – trumpet
• Marvin Stamm
  Marvin Stamm
  Marvin Stamm is an American bebop trumpeter.Stamm began on trumpet at age 12. He first attended college at, then known as, Memphis State University and then attended college at North Texas State University where he was a member of the world renowned One O'Clock Lab Band...
  
   – trumpet
• Virgil Jones – trumpet
• Cecil Bridgewater
  Cecil Bridgewater
  -Biography:Bridgewater was born in Urbana, Illinois and studied at the University of Illinois. He and brother Ron formed the Bridgewater Brothers Band in 1969, and in the 1970s he was married to Dee Dee Bridgewater. In 1970 he played with Horace Silver, and following this with Thad Jones and Mel...
  
   – trumpet
• Jimmy Knepper
  Jimmy Knepper
  James M. Knepper was an American jazz trombonist.He was a good friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Knepper was twice on the receiving end of Mingus' legendary temper...
  
   – trombone
• Quentin Jackson
  Quentin Jackson
  Quentin "Butter" Jackson was an American jazz trombonist. In the early stage of his career he worked with Cab Calloway and was in the Duke Ellington Orchestra...
  
   – trombone
• Eddie Bert
  Eddie Bert
  Eddie Bert is an American bebop jazz trombonist.His first job as a musician came in 1940 when he joined the Sam Donahue Orchestra, and then joined up with Red Norvo in 1941, later performing also with the bands of Stan Kenton and with Benny Goodman's bebop orchestra.He also recorded extensively as...
  
   – trombone
• Janice Robinson - trombone
• Earl McIntyre - trombone
• Cliff Heather - bass trombone
• Jack Jeffers – bass trombone/tuba
• Dave Taylor - bass trombone
• Jim Buffington – french horn
• Peter Gordon - french horn
• Earl Chapin - french horn
• Julius Watkins
  Julius Watkins
  Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician, and one of the first jazz French horn players. He won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for "miscellaneous instrument" with French horn named as the instrument....
  
   - french horn
• Ray Alonge – french horn
• Leonard Gibbs
  Leonard Gibbs
  Leonard William "Doc" Gibbs Jr is an American percussionist. Gibbs studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1970s. He has toured with artists such as Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Bob James, Ricki Lee Jones, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington, Jr., Wyclef Jean, Erykah Badu, Eric...
  
   - percussion
• Dee Dee Bridgewater
  Dee Dee Bridgewater
  Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...
  
  – vocal