At the Cafe Bohemia

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At the Cafe Bohemia
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol 1.jpg
Volume 1
Live album by
ReleasedEarly April 1956 [1]
RecordedNovember 23, 1955
Venue Café Bohemia
New York City
Genre Hard bop
Length41:54 (Vol. 1)
64:48 (Vol. 1 CD reissue)
62:15 (Vol. 2 CD reissue)
Label Blue Note
BLP 1507
BLP 1508
Producer Alfred Lion
The Jazz Messengers chronology
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
(1956)
At the Cafe Bohemia
(1956)
The Jazz Messengers
(1956)
At the Cafe Bohemia
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2.jpg
Volume 2

At the Cafe Bohemia, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related live albums by the Jazz Messengers recorded at the Café Bohemia jazz club in Greenwich Village on November 23, 1955 and released on Blue Note in April 1956.

Contents

Background

Release history

With the July 31, 2001 CD reissues, three additional tracks where added to each volume: "Lady Bird", "Deciphering the Message", and "What's New?" to the first, and "Just One for Those Things", "Hank´s Symphony" and "Gone with the Wind" to the second.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic (Vol. 1)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
AllMusic (Vol. 2)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz (Vol. 1)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz (Vol. 2)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]

The AllMusic reviews called the albums "still timeless music" [5] that have "influenced jazz up to present time". [6]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz noted, while At the Cafe Bohemia didn't "match the intensity which the quintet secured at Birdland", the playing in general "is just as absorbing", calling saxophonist Hank Mobley "a somewhat unfocused stylist" while praising trumpeter Kenny Dorham as an "elusive brilliance [that] was seldom so extensively captured". [4]

Track listing

CD Reissues

At the Cafe Bohemia, Volume 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Announcement by Art Blakey" 1:32
2."Soft Winds" Benny Goodman 12:34
3."The Theme" Kenny Dorham 6:11
4."Minor's Holiday" Kenny Dorham 9:11
5."Alone Together"4:15
6."Prince Albert (All the Things You Are)"8:51
7."Lady Bird" (reissue bonus track) Tadd Dameron 7:30
8."What's New?" (reissue bonus track)4:31
9."Deciphering the Message" (reissue bonus track) Hank Mobley 10:13
Total length:1:04:48
At the Cafe Bohemia, Volume 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Announcement by Art Blakey" 0:38
2."Sportin' Crowd" Hank Mobley 6:53
3."Like Someone in Love"9:18
4."Yesterdays"4:20
5."Avila and Tequila" Hank Mobley 12:47
6."I Waited for You"9:47
7."Just One of Those Things" Cole Porter 9:28
8."Hank's Symphony" Hank Mobley 4:44
9."Gone with the Wind"7:27
Total length:1:02:15

Personnel

The Jazz Messengers

Technical personnel

Original

Reissue

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References

  1. Billboard Apr 14, 1956
  2. Nastos, Michael G.. At the Cafe Bohemia at AllMusic
  3. Nastos, Michael G.. At the Cafe Bohemia at AllMusic
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  5. Scott Yanow. "At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1" . Retrieved 2006-11-26.
  6. Scott Yanow. "At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2" . Retrieved 2006-11-26.