A1 - Mysterious Blues : 
       Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone), Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Jimmy Knepper (trombone),                                                                                  Tommy Flanagan (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), Jo Jones (drums)
A2 - Cliff Walk : 
        Walter Benton (tenor saxophone), Booker Little (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone),                                                                             John "Peck" Morrison (bass), Max Roach, Jo Jones (drums)
B1 - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams :
       Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), Jo Jones (drums)
B2 - Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do :
       Abbey Lincoln (vocal), Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone), Benny Bailey (trumpet), 
       Kenny Dorham (piano), John "Peck" Morrison (bass), Jo Jones (drums)
B3 - Me And You :
       Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), Jo Jones, drums

Recorded on November 1 (2, 4) and 11 (1, 3, 5), 1960, at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island.

"The one positive accomplishment of the 1960 Newport Festival was the creation in rebellion of a musicians' festival at Cliff Walk Manor. As the 'official' rites were ending because of ugly rioting in the streets several hundred people were listening in calm and pleasure to the rebels at Cliff Walk. The dissidents had been organized by Charles Mingus and Max Roach in protest against the accelerating commercialization of the annual Ben-Hur-with-a-horn production of Freebody Park. It was exhilarating for the musicians involved to realize that for once in their careers, they were capable of formulating and sustaining their own ground rules without booking agents, impressarios, and other middlemen. The rebels set up their own tents for sleeping quarters, even stitching the canvas themselves; handled advertising and promotion; alternated as announcers of the rebels; and took tickets. (Mr. Mingus roamed the grounds besides, asking for payment from freeloaders outside the fence)." - from the original 1961 liner notes by Nat Hentoff.

The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the LP and the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.

This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head and was pressed with virgin vinyl at Pallas.