Composed and conducted by Bob Brookmeyer; recorded Cologne 1984

Performance with Kirk Lightsey (piano) and Ronnie Burrage (drums) and a bassist and saxophonist (could not identify names)

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Track listing: Limehouse Blues -- Epistrophy -- Lately -- Bird Count -- Wyrgly -- Battle Royal -- Green Piece -- Dig -- My Man’s Gone Now -- Gumba Blue -- Flintstoned

Track listing: Things are Gonna Get Better -- Low Down -- Green Dolphin St -- In a Mellow Tone -- You Gotta Try -- TALK -- Time Check -- Speak Low -- Things Ain’t What They Used to Be -- I’ll Remember You -- Just Friends

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Track listing: Your Love is Growing Cold -- No Easy Way Out -- Happy Faces -- Livin on a Wish

Harold Danko (piano), Bill Kirchner (tenor saxophone); Lee Konitz Nonet

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Richie Perri (Alto), John Solo (Piano)

Track listing: Milkman’s Matinee -- Watch What Happens -- I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do -- Oh! Look at Me Now -- On the Sunny Side of the Street -- Get Me to the Church on Time

Elvin Shepherd Quartet; Elvin Shepherd Trio

Dexter Gordon (saxophone), Victor Lewis (drums), Rufus Reid (bass), George Cables (piano), Woody Shaw (trumpet)

Track listing: Rhythm in Spain (1938) -- Zoo Song (Lars Edegran, piano) -- Zoo Song (Jim Rubents, piano) -- Zoo Song (France 1982) -- Just Play the Blues for Me -- West End (1981) -- Just Play the Blues for Me (Ralph Sutton, piano), Holland 1982

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

Melvin Rhyne (piano), Skip Crumby-Bey (Bass), Carl Allen (Drums)

Contains studio recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances of Mel Lewis and other jazz contemporaries, including Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan, and Maynard Ferguson. Vinyl LPs from the collection are searchable in the UMKC Libraries catalog. Cataloged Sound Recordings from the Mel Lewis Collection

With Billy Harper and Cecil Bridgewater

Track listing: Close Enough for Love -- Instrumental Track -- Double Bass Solo Work, possibly John Clayton -- Instrumental Jazz

For Demonstration, La Bamba [taped over featuring Shadow Wilson, artifacts of original still present]

With Dieter Reith Band for SWF-TV, track listing: Hey John -- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life; With Skymaster’s Big Band for AVRO Radio, Holland, track listing: The Dancer -- Oh Look at Me Now; From the LP “The Dancer” track listing: The Taker -- I’ll Never Grow -- You Make Me Nervous -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- The Dancer -- This Very Vamp -- Not Just a Word; A letter accompanies the tape, from Rachel Gould to Mel Lewis