Beauty Is a Rare Thing

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. 1 Focus on Sanity 6:51
2. 2 Chronology 6:07
3. 3 Peace 9:04
4. 4 Congeniality 6:47
5. 5 Lonely Woman 4:59
6. 6 Monk and the Nun 5:56
7. 7 Just for You 3:53
8. 8 Eventually 4:23
9. 9 Una muy bonita 6:00
10. 10 Bird Food 5:30
11. 11 Change of the Century 4:44
12. 12 Music Always 5:29

Disc 2

1. 1 The Face of the Bass 6:57
2. 2 Forerunner 5:15
3. 3 Free 6:22
4. 4 The Circle With a Hole in the Middle 4:53
5. 5 Ramblin’ 6:37
6. 6 Little Symphony 5:16
7. 7 The Tribes of New York 4:34
8. 8 Kaleidoscope 6:36
9. 9 Rise and Shine 6:13
10. 10 Mr. and Mrs. People 4:42
11. 11 Blues Connotation 5:18
12. 12 I Heard It Over the Radio 6:23

Disc 3

1. 1 P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2) 5:54
2. 2 Revolving Doors 4:28
3. 3 Brings Goodness 6:39
4. 4 Joy of a Toy 4:57
5. 5 To Us 4:36
6. 6 Humpty Dumpty 5:24
7. 7 The Fifth of Beethoven 6:37
8. 8 Motive for Its Use 5:41
9. 9 Moon Inhabitants 4:33
10. 10 The Legend of Bebop 7:18
11. 11 Some Other 7:23
12. 12 Embraceable You 4:56
13. 13 All 4:30

Disc 4

1. 1 Folk Tale 4:48
2. 2 Poise 4:38
3. 3 Beauty Is a Rare Thing 7:14
4. 4 First Take 17:05
5. 5 Free Jazz 37:03

Disc 5

1. 1 Proof Readers 10:27
2. 2 W.R.U. 16:27
3. 3 Check Up 10:11
4. 4 T. & T. 4:38
5. 5 C. & D. 13:12
6. 6 R.P.D.D. 9:40
7. 7 The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro 9:49

Disc 6

1. 1 Eos 6:37
2. 2 Enfant 6:28
3. 3 Ecars 7:37
4. 4 Cross Breeding 11:21
5. 5 Harlem’s Manhattan 8:11
6. 6 Mapa 9:07
7. 7 Abstraction 4:10
8. 8 Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss‐Cross): Variant I / Variant II / Variant III / Variant IV 15:22

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