"Good Bait" is a jazz composition written by American jazz piano player and composer Tadd Dameron and by band leader Count Basie. It was introduced in 1944 and was popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The song has been performed by a number of other artists, including: Charlie Parker Fats Navarro John Coltrane Miles Davis Tommy Flanagan Dizzy Gillespie Steve Grossman Joe Pass Robert Trowers Nina Simone
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone Red Garland - piano Paul Chambers - bass Art Taylor - drums Rudy Van Gelder - engineering, remastering Shigeo Miyamoto - Engineering, mastering Alan Yoshida, Steve Hoffman - mastering Del Costello, Bob Weinstock - production Kazue Sugimoto - supervision Akira Taguchi - supervision