At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
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| Live album by The Jazz Messengers | ||||
| Released | Early April 1956 | |||
| Recorded | November 23, 1955 | |||
| Venue | Cafe Bohemia, New York City | |||
| Genre | Hardbop | |||
| Length | 41:54 (original LP) 64:48 (CD reissue) |
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Blue Note Records BLP 1507 |
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| Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
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| Penguin Guide to Jazz |  |
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 is a live album by the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records. It featured the original incarnation of the Jazz Messengers, Art 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?".
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."Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, in particular, is noted as "a somewhat unfocused stylist." 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."
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
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