1977

• Barbara Thompson – flute, soprano & tenor saxophones
• Ian Carr – trumpet
• Wolfgang Dauner – piano, clavinet, synthesizer
• Jon Hiseman – drums
• Volker Kriegel – guitar
• Albert Mangelsdorff – trombone
• Charlie Mariano – nagaswaram, soprano & alto saxophones
• Ack van Rooyen – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Eberhard Weber – bass

1. Circus Gambet (Volker Kriegel) 6:01
2. Hey Day (Ian Carr) 7:40
3. Steps Of M.C. Escher (Wolfgang Dauner) 8:39
4. South Indian Line (Charlie Mariano) 7:18
5. Hypnotic Pignose (Volker Kriegel) 4:28
6. The Love That Cannot Speak It's Name (Wolfgang Dauner) 8:34
7. Be-Bop Rock (Wolfgang Dauner) 5:13

• Thomas Fitterling   for Stereoplay 05/1988 (German)
• W. Patrick Hinely   for Jazz Magazine, Volume 4, Number 1 (Winter 1979)
• Hans-Peter Richter   for Sounds, pages 1499-1500

• Bob Thiele – conductor, percussion
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• Jon Faddis – trumpet
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• Lew Soloff – trumpet
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• Victor Paz – flugelhorn
• Burt Collins – flugelhorn
• Tony Studd – trombone
• Charlie Mariano – soprano saxophone
• Phil Bodner – tenor saxophone
• Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone
• Steve Marcus – tenor saxophone
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• Bob Mintzer – tenor saxophone
• Babe Clark – baritone saxophone
• Donald Smith – flute
• Don Grolnick – electric piano
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• Lonnie Liston Smith – electric piano
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• Pat Rebillot – electric piano
• Larry Coryell – electric guitar
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• Jerry Friedman – electric guitar
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• Richard Resnicoff – electric guitar
• Gene Bertoncini – guitar
• Wilbur Bascomb – electric bass
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• Wilby Fletcher – drums
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• Charles Collins – drums
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• Andy Newmark – drums
• Lawrence Killian – congas
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• George Devens – vibraphone, percussion
• Guilherme Franco – percussion
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• Horace Ott – arranger
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• string section
  • Gene Orloff, W. Stanford Allen, Noel DaCosta, Julien Barber, Max Ellen, Selwart Clarke, Joseph Malignaggi, Harry Lookofsky, Doreen Callendar – violin
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  • Al Brown – viola
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  • Kermit Moore, Ronald DeVaughn – cello
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1. A1: Improvisational Rondo for Saxophone and Guitar (Horace Ott) 7:06
2. A2: Shadows (Lonnie Liston Smith) 7:04
3. A3: A Dream Deferred (Bob Thiele, Glenn Osser) 5:24
4. B1: Summer Days (Lonnie Liston Smith) 5:20
5. B2: There Once Was a Man Named John (Bob Thiele, George David Weiss) 5:24
6. B3: Nice 'n' Spicy (Horace Ott) 6:31

• Bob Thiele – conductor
• Teresa Brewer – vocals
• Charlie Mariano – soprano saxophone
• Phil Bodner – english horn
• Don Grolnick – electric piano
• Wilber Bascomb – electric bass
• Lawrence Killian – congas
• Guilherme Franco – percussion
• Gloria Agostini – harp
• string section
  • Michael Spivakovsky, Cal Fleisig – cello
  • Alan Shulman, Jesse Levy – viola
  • Gene Orloff, Max Cahn, Harry Lookofsky, Julie Held, Emanuel Green, Sylvan Shulman, Joseph Malignaggi – violin

1. There Once Was A Man Named John

• Lyn Williamson – vocals
• Charlie Mariano – soprano saxophone, flutes
• Mike Nock – piano, keyboards
• Ron McClure – guitar, bass
• Al Foster – drums
• Nacho Mena – percussion

1. A1: Magic Mansions 6:29
2. A2: Twister 6:12
3. A3: Enchanted Garden 5:22
4. A4: Hybris 3:45
5. B1: Blackout 7:24
6. B2: Everglad 7:05
7. B3: Mambucaba 7:35

• Tracks 1-3: The Buddy Rich Orchestra
  • David Stahl – trumpet
  • Dean Pratt – trumpet
  • Ross Konikoff – trumpet
  • John Marshall – trumpet
  • Richard Stepton – trombone
  • Clinton Sharmann – trombone
  • David Boyle – trombone
  • Alan Gauvin – alto saxophone
  • Dean Paul Palanzo – alto saxophone
  • Steven Marcus – tenor saxophone
  • Robert Mintzer – tenor saxophone
  • Turk Mauro – baritone saxophone
  • Barry Kiener – piano
  • Josh Rich – guitar
  • Thomas Warrington – bass
  • Buddy Rich – drums
  
  
• Tracks 4 + 5: Philip Catherine Workshop Quartet
  • Charlie Mariano – soprano saxophone, nagaswaram
  • Philip Catherine – guitar
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass
  • Nippy Noya – percussion
  
  
• Track 6: The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble
  • Ian Carr – trumpet
  • Ack van Royen – fluegelhorn
  • Charlie Mariano – alto saxophone
  • Barbara Thompson – tenor saxophone
  • Albert Mangelsdorff – trombone
  • Volker Kriegel – guitar
  • Wolfgang Dauner – piano
  • Eberhard Weber – bass
  • Jon Hiseman – drums

• 1. A1: Time Out (Don Menza)
  2. A2: 'Round Midnight (Monk, Williams, Hanighen)
  3. A3: Senator Sam (Ernie Wilkins)
  4. B1: India (Charlie Mariano)
  5. B2: Les sept boules de crystal (Philip Catherine)
  6. B3: Bebop Rock (Wolfgang Dauner)

• Charlie Mariano – alto & soprano saxophones, flute, nagaswaram
• Rainer Brüninghaus – acoustic & electric pianos, synthesizer
• Barre Phillips – acoustic bass
• Hansgeorg Meuser – electric bass
• Udo Dahmen – drums, percussion
• Trilok Gurtu – tabla, percussion, drums (7)

1. Aszù (Rainer Brüninghaus) 8:06
2. Nagaswarup (Charlie Mariano) 7:47
3. Earth (Rainer Brüninghaus) 2:47
4. Out of the Jungle (Udo Dahmen) 4:16
5. To an Elfin Princess (Charlie Mariano) 7:24
6. 7 Up (Hansgeorg Meuser) 5:27
7. Back of J. (Barre Phillips) 2:55
8. Down the Kaveri (Charlie Mariano) 4:45

• Robert Henschen   for Jazz Magazine, Volume 2, Number 4 (Summer 1978)

• Eberhard Weber – bass
• Charlie Mariano – soprano saxophone, flutes
• Rainer Brüninghaus – piano, synthesizer
• John Marshall – drums

1. Seriously Deep 17:47
2. Silent Feet 12:11
3. Eyes That Can See In The Dark 12:19

• W. Patrick Hinely   for Jazz Magazine, Volume 3, Number 1 (Fall 1978)