Jazz Messengers - A Night At Cafe Bohemia v1 LP Blue Note M DG RVG Ear 1st Press
$
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Jazz Messengers - A Night At Cafe Bohemia Vol 1 LP Blue Note Mono DG RVG Ear 1st Press Recorded live on November 23, 1955.
The 1st original mono issue has:
- deep grooved blue/white Blue Note Records labels with 767 Lexington Ave N.Y.C. addess,
- flat edge vinyl with RVG and "P" (otherwise wrongly called "ear") for Plastylite plant, both etched in the trail off,
- non laminated framed front cover,
- Blue Note Records, 767 Lexington Ave., New York 21 address on back cover,
- blank spine on cover.
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. This is Art Blakey's early period Jazz Messengers featuring trumpeter Kenny Dorham, saxophonist Hank Mobley, bassist Doug Watkins, and pianist Horace Silver. This first volume of live performance from the Cafe Bohemia in New York City circa late 1955 is a rousing set of hard bop by the masters who signified its sound, and expanded on the language of modern jazz. This LP further emphasizes not only the inherent power of Blakey's band and drumming, but demarcate the simplicity of melodic statements that were a springboard for the fantastic soloing by these individuals who would follow those tuneful lines. Dorham is responsible for this edict, as he contributes three of the selections, including the staccato-accented melody of "Minor's Holiday" primed by a thumping intro via Blakey, "Prince Albert" with its by now classic and clever reharmonization of "All the Things You Are," and the perennial closer of every set "The Theme," with its brief repeat melody and powerhouse triple-time bop break. Mobley The tenor man gets his feature on the quarter-speed slowed ballad version of "Alone Together," which altogether sounds pining and blue to the nth degree. Standards like Fletcher Henderson's "Soft Winds" seemed merely a simple and lengthy warmup tune,
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