TracksFocus on Sanity (6:49), Chronology (6:04), Peace (9:02), Congeniality (6:44), Lonely Woman (4:57), Monk and the Nun (5:53), Just for You (3:51), Eventually (4:20), Una Muy Bonita (5:59), Bird Food (5:28), Change of the Century (4:41), Music Always (5:29), The Face of the Bass (6:55), Forerunner (5:13), Free (6:20), The Circle with a Hole in the Middle (4:52), Ramblin' (6:35), Little Symphony (5:14), The Tribes of New York (4:33) (Previously Unreleased), Kaleidoscope (6:34), Rise and Shine (6:11), Mr. And Mrs. People (4:40) (Previously Unreleased), Blues Connotation (5:17), I Heard It Over the Radio (6:24) (Previously Unreleased), P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2) (5:53), Revolving Doors (4:26) (Previously Unreleased), Brings Goodness (6:38), Joy of a Toy (4:55), To Us (4:32), Humpty Dumpty (5:21), The Fifth of Beethoven (6:37), Motive for it's Use (5:39), Moon Inhabitants (4:31), The Legend of Bebop (7:15), Some Other (7:20), Embraceable You (4:55), All (4:30), Folk Tale (4:47), Poise (4:37), Beauty Is a Rare Thing (7:13), First Take (17:03), Free Jazz (37:03), Proof Readers (10:25) (Previously Unreleased), W.R.U. (16:24), Check Up (10:10), T ; T (4:35), C. ; D. (13:10), R.P.D.D (9:38), The Alchemy of Scott Lafaro (9:50), Eos (6:35), Enfant (6:26), Ecars (7:35), Cross Breeding (11:17), Harlem's Manhattan (8:10), Mapa (9:05), Abstraction (4:07), Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross): Variant I; Variant II; Variant III; Variant IV (15:22)
NotesSix CD set. Released for Coleman's 85th birthday, this is a reconfiguration of the original Rhino boxed set which brought these legendary recordings out on CD for the first time. Beauty Is a Rare Thing is presented in a sleek, hard clamshell box, with the CDs held in elegant card sleeves and a glossy 70-page booklet.