Three Blind Mice (album)

Three Blind Mice is a 1962 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records. It features live material recorded in 1961. Blue Note has re-issued a two-volume CD set, Three Blind Mice Vols. 1 & 2, with supplementary live tracks from the original dates of recording.

Track listing

Three Blind Mice, Vol. 1

1. "Three Blind Mice" (Fuller) - 8:20
2. "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) - 6:01
3. "That Old Feeling" (Brown, Fain) - 6:36
4. "Plexis" (Walton) - 5:51
5. "Up Jumped Spring" (Hubbard) - 9:48
6. "Up Jumped Spring [alternate take]" (Hubbard) - 5:18
7. "When Lights Are Low" (Carter) - 4:11
8. "Children of the Night" (Shorter) - 8:13

Three Blind Mice, Vol. 2

1. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) - 13:27
2. "Mosaic" (Walton) - 12:30
3. "Ping Pong" (Shorter) - 12:24
4. "The Promised Land" (Walton) - 13:13
5. "Arabia" (Fuller) - 11:25

Personnel

• Art Blakey, drums
• Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone
• Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
• Curtis Fuller, trombone
• Cedar Walton, piano
• Jymie Merritt, bass

References