Tracklisting

1. "Fabulous Fifties"
2. "Little Momma"
3. "Credo"
4. "Subway Night"
5. "Professor and the Panhandler"
6. "Horn and Hardart Succotash Blues"
7. "Neon Casbah"
8. "East and West"
9. "Ballad for Red Allen"
10. "Message to the Politicians of the World"
11. "Mean Dean"

Personnel

• Macdougal Street Composers - Choir, Chorus
• Irwin Markowitz - Trumpet
• Tony Miranda - French Horn
• Jack O'Hara - Guitar
• Randy Peyton Quartet Choir, Chorus
• Henry Schuman - Oboe
• Midhat Serbagi - Viola
• Brooks Tillotson - French Horn
• Wilmer Wise - Trumpet
• Andy Statman
  Andy Statman
  Andy Statman is a noted Klezmer clarinetist and bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist.Andy Statman was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He first gained acclaim as a mandolinist in pioneering bluegrass bands Country Cookin' and Breakfast Special. Statman, who grew up in a traditional but secular Jewish...
  
   - Mandolin
• Al Harewood
  Al Harewood
  Al Harewood is a musician and teacher, born in Brooklyn. As a drummer Harewood worked with many jazz musicians including the J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding group, the Art Farmer/Gigi Grice band, David Amram, and the Curtis Fuller-Benny Golson Sextet...
  
   - Drums
• William Arrowsmith
  William Arrowsmith
  William Ayres Arrowsmith was an American classicist, academic, and translator.-Life:Born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Walter Weed Arrowsmith and Dorothy Arrowsmith, William grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts...
  
   - Horn (English)
• Souren Baronian - Clarinet
• Dick Baxter - Engineer
• Sam T. Brown - Guitar
• James Buffington
  James Buffington
  James Lawrence Buffington was an American jazz hornist....
  
   - French Horn
• Herb Bushler - Bass
• Don Butterfield
  Don Butterfield
  Don Butterfield was an American jazz and classical tuba player.-Biography:Butterfield took up tuba in high school. He wanted to play trumpet, but the band director assigned him to tuba instead. After serving in the U.S...
  
   - Tuba
• Earl Chapin - French Horn
• Jane Cochran - Oboe
• Kenny Kosek
  Kenny Kosek
  Kenny Kosek, born in 1949 in The Bronx, New York, is an American fiddler who plays bluegrass, country, klezmer, folk music and roots music. In addition to his solo career, he has performed with many other well-known performers and contributed to film and television soundtrack music. He is also a...
  
   - Violin
• Marvin Feinsmith - Bassoon
• Charles Ganimian
  Charles Ganimian
  Charles 'Chick' Ganimian is a Armenian-American musician known mostly for playing the oud. Ganimian played Turkish, Armenian, and Arabic music in the "kef" style of the Armenian immigrants from Turkey to the US...
  
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• Ali Candido Hafid - Bongos, Conga
• David Bromberg
  David Bromberg
  David Bromberg is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Bromberg has an eclectic style, playing bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock and roll equally well. He is known for his quirky, humorous lyrics, and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the...
  
   - Guitar (Electric), Guitar
• 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:...
  
   - Sax (Baritone)
• David Amram - Piano, Producer, Vocals, Guitar, Flute
• Joe Beck
  Joe Beck
  Joe Beck was an American guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
  
   - Guitar (Electric)
• Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
  
   - Sax (Tenor)
• Bobby Jones
  Bobby Jones (saxophonist)
  Bobby Jones was an American jazz saxophonist.Jones played drums as a child and started on clarinet at age 8; his father encouraged him to explore jazz. He studied with Simeon Bellison, Joe Allard, Charlie Parker, and George Russell...
  
   - Sax (Tenor), Clarinet
• 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
• George Mgrdichian -
• Collin Walcott
  Collin Walcott
  Collin Walcott was a North American musician. He was a student of Ravi Shankar and Vasant Rai. Collin expanded the role of the sitar in western music. Walcott studied music and ethnomusicology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and at The University of California at Los Angeles...
  
   - Tabla
• Bill Watrous
  Bill Watrous
  William Russell Watrous III is a jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known by casual fans of jazz music for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love," which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name...
  
   - Trombone
• Joe Wilder
  Joe Wilder
  Joe Wilder is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He best known for his beautiful tone and lyrical style.Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006...
  
  - Trumpet