At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 | ||||
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Live album by Art Blakey | ||||
Released | 1955 | |||
Recorded | November 23, 1955 | |||
Genre | Bebop | |||
Length | 41:54 (1955) | |||
Label | Blue Note Records (1955) | |||
Producer | Michael Cuscuna Alfred Lion |
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Art Blakey chronology | ||||
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At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 is a 1955 live album release by jazz drummer Art Blakey for Blue Note Records. It featured the third incarnation of the Jazz Messengers, Blakey's career-spanning band, and is the first of two volumes recorded on November 23, 1955 at Café Bohemia, a famous night club in Greenwich Village in New York.
With the July 31, 2001 CD re-issue, three additional tracks from this night were added: "Lady Bird,"Deciphering the Message," and "What's New?"
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Allmusic | [1] |
Penguin Guide to Jazz |
This album, which sees the first version of The Jazz Messengers on record, was noted as not "match[ing] the intensity which the quintet secured at Birdland."[2] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, in particular, is noted as "a somewhat unfocused stylist."[2] However, trumpeter Kenny Dorham is seen as an "elusive brilliance [that] was seldom so extensively captured" and the playing in general "is just as absorbing" as the Birdland albums and is "still timeless music."[2][3]