Wizard of the Vibes is a Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 compilation of performances by jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 vibraphonist

Vibraphone

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

 Milt Jackson

Milt Jackson

Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...

. The sessions were the work of The Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...

 Quintet (the July 2, 1948 and July 23, 1951 sessions

Thelonious Monk Blue Note Sessions

Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk's first sessions as a bandleader were recorded between 1947 and 1952, and released on Blue Note records as a series of 78 RPM singles. These singles were then compiled in later years--with additional performances from the sessions--into long-playing album formats...

) and The Modern Jazz Quartet

Modern Jazz Quartet

The Modern Jazz Quartet was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson , John Lewis , Percy Heath , and Kenny Clarke . Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955...

 plus Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.His first recordings were...

 (a 1952 session). The album has been recompiled and expanded three additional times, with various tracks from these sessions added and deleted.

The original 1952 10" LP was expanded to a 12" LP in 1956, and retitled Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet with a cover designed by Reid Miles

Reid Miles

and Reid Miles was an American graphic designer and photographer.Reid Miles was born in Chicago on 4 July 1927 but, following the Stock Market Crash and the separation of his parents, moved with his mother to Long Beach, California in 1929.After high school Miles joined the Navy and, following...

, his first for the label. In 1989, the cover and title of the 1956 version were used for a CD featuring the complete 1948 and 1952 sessions, but the 1951 Monk Session was moved to Monk's Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2

Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2

Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 is the name given to at least four different compilation albums by jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk. Each version comprises some of Monk's recordings as a band leader for Blue Note, recorded between 1947 and 1952...

. The 2001 album Milt Jackson: Wizard of the Vibes used the cover art and title of the original 1952 album, but contained a re-ordered and remastered version of the contents of the 1989 CD.

In each formulation, the album contained Blue Note Thelonious Monk -led performances unavailable on the parallel editions of "Genius of Modern Music."

Milt Jackson, Wizard of the Vibes (Blue Note LP 5011, 10", 1952)

Side 1:

1. "Tahiti"
2. "Lillie"
3. "Criss-Cross"
4. "Willow Weep for Me
   Willow Weep for Me
   "Willow Weep for Me" is a popular song composed in 1932 by Ann Ronell, who also wrote the lyrics. It is mostly known as a jazz standard, but it was a Top 40 hit for the British duo Chad & Jeremy in 1964.-Notable recordings:...
   
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Side 2:

1. "What's New?
   What's New?
   "What's New?" is a 1939 popular song composed by Bob Haggart, with lyrics by Johnny Burke.It was originally an instrumental tune titled "I'm Free" by Haggart in 1938, when Haggart was a member of Bob Crosby and His Orchestra. The tune was written with a trumpet solo, meant to showcase the talents...
   
   "
2. "Bags' Groove
   Bags' Groove (composition)
   "Bags' Groove" is a jazz composition by Milt Jackson and first recorded by Miles Davis's quintet in 1954. The recording was released on the 1957 album Bags' Groove...
   
   "
3. "On the Scene"
4. "Eronel"

Tracks A3, A4, B4 recorded July 23, 1951.

Tracks A1-A2, B1-B3 recorded April 7, 1952.

Milt Jackson and The Thelonious Monk Quintet (Blue Note BLP-1509, 12", 1956)

Side 1:

1. "Lillie"
2. "Tahiti"
3. "What's New?"
4. "Bags' Groove"
5. "On the Scene"
6. "Willow Weep for Me"

Side 2:

1. "Criss Cross"
2. "Eronel"
3. "Misterioso" (alternate master)
4. "Evidence"
5. "Lillie" (alternate master)
6. "Four in One" (alternate master)

Tracks B3, B4 recorded July 2, 1948.

Tracks A6, B1, B2, B6 recorded July 23, 1951.

Tracks A1-A5, B5 recorded recorded April 7, 1952.

Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet (1989 CD, uses 1956 red cover)

1. "Tahiti"
2. "Lillie"
3. "Lillie"
4. "Bags' Groove"
5. "What's New?"
6. "What's New?"
7. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore
   Don't Get Around Much Anymore
   "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell. The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental...
   
   "
8. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
9. "On the Scene"
10. "Evidence"
11. "Misterioso"
12. "Misterioso"
13. "Epistrophy
    Epistrophy
    "Epistrophy" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke in 1942. It has been called "the first classic, modern jazz composition."Its 'A' section is based on a pattern of alternating chords a semitone apart....
    
    "
14. "I Mean You"
15. "All the Things You Are
    All the Things You Are
    "All the Things You Are" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II.It was written for the musical Very Warm for May , where it was introduced by Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, and Ralph Stuart...
    
    "
16. "I Should Care
    I Should Care
    "I Should Care" is a popular song by Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn, published in 1944. The original recording by Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra, with vocalists: Harry Prime and The Singing Winds was made at Manhattan Center, New York City, on July 18, 1952...
    
    "
17. "I Should Care"

10-17 recorded July 2, 1948

1-9 recorded April 7, 1952.

Milt Jackson, Wizard of the Vibes (2001 CD, uses 1952 cover)

1. "Tahiti"
2. "Lillie"
3. "Bags' Groove"
4. "What's New"
5. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
6. "On The Scene"
7. "Lillie" (alternate take)
8. "What's New" (alternate take)
9. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (alternate take)
10. "Evidence"
11. "Misterioso"
12. "Epistrophy"
13. "I Mean You"
14. "Misterioso" (alternate take)
15. "All The Things You Are"
16. "I Should Care"
17. "I Should Care" (alternate take)

10-17 recorded July 2, 1948

1-9 recorded April 7, 1952.