A1 - East of the Sun
A2 - Nice Work If You Can Get It
A3 - Pinky
A4 - The Nearness of You
A5 - Come Rain or Come Shine
A6 - Mean To Me
B1 - It Might As Well Be Spring
B2 - Can't Get Out of This Mood
B3 - Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
B4 - Ooh, What-cha Doin' To Me
B5 - Goodnight My Love
B6 - Ain't Misbehavin'
C1 - It's All In the Mind
C2 - The Nearness of You (alternate take)
C3 - Ain't Misbehavin (alternate take)
C4 - Goodnight My Love (alternate take)
C5 - Can't Get Out of This Mood (alternate take)
D1 - It Might As Well Be Spring (alternate take)
D2 - Mean To Me (alternate take)
D3 - Come Rain or Come Shine (alternate take)
D4 - East of the Sun (alternate take)

- Recorded on 21st December 1949 : "The Nearness Of You" :
Billy Butterfield, Taft Jordan (trumpet), Will Bradley (trombone), Toots Mondello, Hymie Schertzer (alto sax), Artie Drelinger, George Kelly (tenor sax), Stan Webb (baritone sax), Jimmy Jones, Al Caiola (guitar), Eddie Safranski (bass), Cozy Cole (drums)
- Recorded 18th May 1950 : "Ain’t Misbehavin’", "Goodnight My Love", "Can’t Get Out Of this Mood", "It Might As Well Be Spring" :
Miles Davis (trumpet), Benny Green (trombone), Budd Johnson (tenor sax), Tony Scott (clarinet), Jimmy Jones (piano), Freddie Green (guitar), Jr. Billy “Pickels” Taylor (bass), J C Heard (drums).
(Budd Johnson, Benny Green & Freddie Green do not play on “It Might As Well Be Spring”)
- Recorded 19th May 1950 : "Mean To Me", "Come Rain Or Come Shine", "Nice Work If You Can Get It", "East Of The Sun" :
Miles Davis (trumpet), Benny Green (trombone), Budd Johnson (tenor sax), Tony Scott (clarinet), Jimmy Jones (piano), Mundell Lowe (electric guitar), Jr. Billy “Pickels” Taylor (bass), J C Heard (drums)
- Recorded 19th September 1951 : "Pinky" : unknown personnel
- Recorded 5th January 1952 : “Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year”,“Ooh, What ‘Cha Doin’ To Me” : unknown personnel
- Recorded 30th December 1952 : "It’s All In The Mind" : unknown personnel

Sarah Lois Vaughan (1924 – 1990), nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine", was a four-time Grammy Award winner, including a "Lifetime Achievement Award". The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.

Studying the piano from an early age, Sarah Vaughan became an organist and choir soloist at the Mount Zion Baptist Church as a pre-teen. At the age of eighteen, she entered the famed Amateur Contest at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Her rendition of the jazz standard "Body and Soul" won her first prize. Billy Eckstine was in the audience that night; six months later, she had joined him in Earl Hines’s big band, and sang alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, as well as being the band's second pianist.

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.