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A Night At Birdland, Vols. 1 and 2

By Art Blakey

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Released: 2001
Track listing: Disc 1: Announcement by Pee Wee Marquette; Split Kick; Once in a While; Quicksilver; A Night in Tunisia; Mayreh; Wee-Dot (alternate take)*; Blues (improvisation)*; Disc 2: Wee-Dot; If I Had You; Quicksilver (alternate take); Now's the Time; Confirmation; The Way You Look Tonight*; Lou's Blues* (* bonus track not on original 12-inch album)

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Art Blakey: A Night At Birdland, Vols. 1 and 2

Read "A Night At Birdland, Vols. 1 and 2" reviewed by Michael Fortuna

by Michael Fortuna

We should all stand up right now and applaud Alfred Lion and Rudy Van Gelder of Blue Note Records for rolling the tapes at Birdland on a February night in 1954.Lion and Van Gelder captured drummer Art Blakey's quintet at the New York nightclub on a night when they were really cooking. Because of ...


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