A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Live]

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Live]

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Live]

ASIN: B000005H50

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For all intents and purposes, the style of jazz known as hard bop came of age at this February 1954 live date from the famous New York club. By adding vibrant elements of blues, funk, soul, and gospel to the technically challenging and highly cerebral bebop form, hard bop became the dominant jazz style and to this day represents what is typically referred to as mainstream jazz. The lineup here resembles the '27 Yankees of the genre: trumpeter Clifford Brown was quickly becoming the red-hot alternative to Miles Davis's cool stylings (his work on the ballad "Once in a While" is worth the price of admission alone); pianist Horace Silver's driving, urgent sound epitomized the funky hard-bop aesthetic; alto Lou Donaldson and bassist Curly Russell had already graced countless essential recordings between them. From this seed grew three of the greatest hard-bop outfits in history: Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Silver's Quintet, and the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. This short-lived ensemble might have them all licked. For a complete snapshot of the Birdland event, pick up A Night at Birdland, Volume 2, easily on par with Birdland, Volume 1 for sheer artistry. --Marc Greilsamer

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The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 1-2
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Not the best jam session you can buy
  • A really exiting live-date
  • "Night of the Cookers" Simmers
 The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 1-2
Freddie Hubbard
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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ASIN: B0002IQ9QY
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

  1. Pensativa
  2. Walkin'

Tracks:

  1. Jodo
  2. Breaking Point

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not the best jam session you can buy.......2005-12-28

As a long time die hard Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard fan, I have bought this Night session with great enthusiasm. I tought that four tunes (twenty minutes each) really strechted out could be a great ground for a trumpet battle with two gints of the instrument. But I have to admit that the first disc of these Cookers here, it has a little disappointed me. The audio is really not the best. For example Lee's solos on Pensativa is really difficult to hear (I know he did choose to play the muted horn on this tune, but I'm saying that he's not loud enough to be heard clearly). Then musically as a jam session it is a little bit chaotic. I mean that often the guys are all playing as hard as they can stepping on each other's ideas. The result is a music too full and disorganized at least in some points. Pensativa is probably the tune that has disappointed me the most, too energetic, almost chaotic. The blues Walking is a little bit better but we have to wait the second disc of this set to start to hear some good blowing. The fast, modal-free Jodo is still a little bit confused in some points but it has its good moments. The twenty minutes pass by finally leaving me happy, apart maybe for the drums and congas solo parts. The last tune is again a Freddie Hubbard's original, the spanish-calypso flavoured "Breaking point". In the end I'd say that it is an album which is not essential. Surely there are some good moments here and there, but nothing that you can't find in other minor releases from these two giants. Each player has many stronger albums than this one in their careers. For example Lee Morgan has the fantastic three cds set "Live at the Lighthouse" (which has Harold Mabern at the piano too). You can hear marvellous things from Hubbard in Oliver Nelson's "The blues and the abstract truth". So you can probably skip this one. My rating is something over three stars .. but less than three stars and a half.

4 out of 5 stars A really exiting live-date.......2004-08-14

If you want to hear some really hot, exiting music played by some of the greatest players of that most productive period of the sixties, I'm sure you will like this. Sit down and relax, close your eyes and imagine you are in the audience of a jazz-club. This is no music for radio-playing, the sound quality isn't the very best, but everybody is really stretching out and taking chances. so this is music played for the fellow musicians and of course for a hip audience. Besides that, this is a rare occasion to hear two of the greatest trumpeters playing together. By the way, both Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan did many albums for the BlueNote-Label, and each of them had played with Art Blakey for a long period. The first tune "Pensative" starts with Lee Morgan using the harmon mute (one of the rare occasions where he uses it), while James Spaulding is playing flute, so it's a soft start with that kind of relaxed samba-feeling, but then thing turn out to be a "friendly trumpet-battle" between Hubbard and Morgan. "Walkin" is Morgan's feature and shows him really at the peak of his power. James Spaulding on alto is also exciting. Though he never got very much recognition, he really could play everything from bop to free, making really important contributions to many recording-sessions of the sixties. It is very interesting to compare the next tune "Breaking Point" with the studio version of the album with the same title, which sounds more like avantgarde with it's "free-sections", while the live-version here is more conventional with it's steady calypso-feeling. "Jodo" is my favourite tune on that album. It is Hubbard's feature and he really plays some fantastic trumpet , much faster than on the studio version of the same tune, done a few weeks earlier for Hubbard's album "Blue Spirits". Pianist Harold Mabern also plays beautiful piano solos on each tune, and just dig Pete La Roca and "Big Black"....they really have a lot of "percussion discussion" running on that exiting live gig.

4 out of 5 stars "Night of the Cookers" Simmers.......2004-07-13

After a brief absence in the Blue Note catalog, Freddie Hubbard's "Night of the Cookers" has been reissued via the RVG series. Though I have to confess, as I stated in my recent review of Hub's "Breaking Point," it would have been nicer so see rarer OOP titles like "Here to Stay" or "Blue Spirits" back in print instead. (In fact, "Night of the Cookers" is his album made in between "Breaking Point" and "Blue Spirits.") These live volumes, originally released as two LPs back in the day, capture a rare pairing of Blue Note's greatest trumpeters, Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan, live in performance at Brooklyn's Club La Marchal. These April 9 & 10, 1965 concerts also feature James Spaulding on alto sax & flute, Harold Mabern on piano, Larry Ridley on bass, Pete LaRoca on drums and Big Black on congas. The four songs presented on this 2CD set are lengthy improvisations on material quite familiar to Hub fans -- "Pensativa" from Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' "Free For All," the classic standard "Walkin'," "Jodo" which would appear again on "Blue Spirits," and "Breaking Point." However, these extended, groove-laden jams bear little resemblance to their aforementioned counterparts. This is not entirely a bad thing if you're looking for a great soul-jazz album, but I personally think Hubbard was at his Blue Note best on his own "Ready for Freddie" (see my review), in the company of Blakey, or on classic albums like Herbie Hancock's "Empyrean Isles," Bobby Hutcherson's "Dialogue," or Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch." It is blatantly obvious that with this effort, the trumpeter was trying to take his music to a larger audience, particularly with the inclusion of Morgan who had attained that desired fame with "The Sidewinder." But as is evidenced by album's like "Backlash" (again, see my review) and his later CTI recordings, when Hub was looking for more commercial success, it often came at the cost of artistic success. Others may disagree, but it is my opinion that Hub cooked best in a more modern setting, and that he only simmers on "Night of the Cookers."
Night out: A Live at the Basement, Vol. 2
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    		Night out: A Live at the Basement, Vol. 2
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Basement Music
    ProductGroup: Music
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    ASIN: B00007JRCS
    Release Date: 2003-12-30

    Tracks:

    1. I Heard The Angels Singin - Eric Bibb
    2. El Dorado - Mark Seymour
    3. Bright Lights Big City - Chris Wilson
    4. Thinking Mans Drinking Man - The Backsliders
    5. Pickapart - Butler
    6. Lifes What You Make It - Brett Hunt
    7. Cool World - Ross Wilson
    8. Beautiful Day - Steve Poltz
    9. I Put A Spell On You - Jimmy Barnes
    10. My Girl - Doug Williams
    11. Lost - The Badloves
    12. The Weight - Harry Manx
    13. The Good Life Ray Beadle
    14. Best Years Of Our Lives - Richard Clapton

    Album Description

    Full title - A Night Out - Live At The Basement Volume 2. Aussie exclusive compilation highlights the best in Australian music with 14 live tracks featuring the likes of Eric Bibb, Chris Wilson, Harry Manx, Ray Beadle & more, recorded at Sydney's legendary nightclub in 2003. Basement Music.
    The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 2
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      		The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 2
      Freddie Hubbard
      Manufacturer: Blue Note Japan
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0000ZP60Y
      Release Date: 2004-02-09

      Tracks:

      1. Jodo
      2. Breaking Point

      Album Description

      Limited Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue of part two of 1965 album is packaged in a miniature LP sleeve, features 2 tracks, 'Jodo' & 'Breaking Point'. Blue Note. 2004.

      Album Details

      24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
      The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 1
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        		The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 1
        Freddie Hubbard
        Manufacturer: Blue Note Japan
        ProductGroup: Music
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        ASIN: B0000ZP60O
        Release Date: 2004-02-24

        Tracks:

        1. Pensivate
        2. Walkin'

        Album Description

        Limited Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue of part one of 1965 album is packaged in a miniature LP sleeve, features 2 tracks, 'Pensativa' & 'Walkin''. Blue Note. 2004.

        Album Details

        24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
        The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 2
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          		The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 2
          Freddie Hubbard
          Manufacturer: Blue Note Japan
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B0000564EG
          Release Date: 1997-11-27

          Tracks:

          1. Jodo
          2. Breaking Point
          The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 1-2
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • A most enjoyable recording
          		 The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vol. 1-2
          Freddie Hubbard
          Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000005GX8
          Release Date: 1994-04-19

          Tracks:

          1. Pensativa
          2. Walkin'

          Tracks:

          1. Jodo
          2. Breaking Point

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars A most enjoyable recording.......1999-08-20

          The most enjoyable live recording I've had the pleasure of listening to. "Pensativa" is a master piece. Where can I get a copy of this recording?
          Night out: Live at the Basement, Vol. 1
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            		Night out: Live at the Basement, Vol. 1
            Various Artists
            Manufacturer: Wea/Warner
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            ASIN: B000062WGT
            Release Date: 2003-12-30

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            1. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Jimmy Barnes
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            3. Memphis - The Badloves
            4. I Wish I Was A Girl - King Curly
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            7. Way Down - Steve Prestwich
            8. Hi Hone Ho - Ross Wilson
            9. Distant Thunder - Richard Clapton
            10. Great Southern Land - Iva Davies
            11. London- Jeff Lang Further On Up The Road - Chris Wilson
            12. Georgia - Ian Moss

            Album Description

            Aussie exclusive compilation highlights the best in Australian music with 13 live tracks from such artists as Jimmy Barnes, The Whitlams, Leonardo's Bride, Chris Wilson, The Badloves, & more, recorded at the legendary nite club. Basement Music. 2003.

            Album Details

            Showcases Australia's Finest Adult Contemporary Artists and Includes Live Performances from Sydney's'the Basement' Club. Originally Recorded as Webcasts for Thebasement.com.au, The Strengthof the Concerts and the Feedback from Audiences Demanded their Further Exposure. Featuringjimmy Barnes, the Whitlams, Richard Clapton, Iva Davies and Ian Moss.

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