Comprehensive collection of album recorded between 1953 & 1957. Featuring albums 'Strings and Keys', 'Jazzical Moods, Vol. 1', 'The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach', 'Jazz Composers Workshop', 'Pithecanthropus Erectus' & 'Mingus Three'. Featuring musicians Jackie McLean, John LaPorta, Eddie Caine, Shafi Hadi, George Barrow, Teo Macero, Jackson Wiley, John Laporta, Paul Bley, Charles Mingus, Clem De Rosa, Dannie Richmond, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Rudy Nichols, Willie Jones, Hampton Hawes, John Lewis, Mal Waldron, Spaulding Givens, Wade Legge, George Barrow, J.R. Monterose, Eddie Bert, Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis, Ernie Royal, Oliver King & Janet Thurlow.

• 1-1 What Is This Thing Called Love
• 1-10 Blue Tide
• 1-11 Minor Intrusion
• 1-12 What Is This Thing Called Love
• 1-13 Stormy Weather
• 1-14 Abstractions
• 1-15 Thrice Upon A Time
• 1-16 Four Hands
• 1-17 The Spur Of The Moment/Echonitus
• 1-2 Darn That Dream
• 1-3 Yesterdays
• 1-4 Body And Soul
• 1-5 Blue Moon
• 1-6 Blue Tide
• 1-7 Miss Bliss
• 1-8 Eclipse
• 1-9 Pink Topsy
• 2-1 Jump Monk
• 2-10 Lady Bird
• 2-11 I'll Remember April
• 2-12 Love Chant
• 2-2 Serenade In Blue
• 2-3 Percussion Discussion
• 2-4 Work Song
• 2-5 Septemberly
• 2-6 All The Things You C#
• 2-7 A Foggy Day
• 2-8 Drums
• 2-9 Haitian Fight Song
• 3-1 Purple Heart
• 3-10 Pithecanthropus Erectus
• 3-11 A Foggy Day
• 3-12 Profile Of Jackie
• 3-13 Love Chant
• 3-2 Gregarian Chant
• 3-3 Eulogy for Rudy Williams
• 3-4 Tea For Two
• 3-5 Smog L.A.
• 3-6 Level Seven
• 3-7 Transeason
• 3-8 Rose Geranium
• 3-9 Getting Together
• 4-1 Haitian Fight Song
• 4-10 Dizzy Moods
• 4-11 Laura
• 4-2 Blue Cee
• 4-3 Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
• 4-4 The Clown
• 4-5 Yesterdays
• 4-6 Back Home Blues
• 4-7 I Can't Get Started
• 4-8 Hamp's New Blues
• 4-9 Summertime