Released 1955 Length 62:15 Release date 1955 Genre Hard bop | Recorded November 23, 1955 Artist The Jazz Messengers Label Blue Note Records | |
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At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
(1955) The Jazz Messengers
(1956) Producers Michael Cuscuna, Alfred Lion Similar The Jazz Messengers albums, Hard bop albums, Other albums | ||
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At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 is a 1955 live album release by the Jazz Messengers. It was first released by Blue Note Records. This record featured the original incarnation of The Jazz Messengers, one of Art Blakey's most endearing bands, and was the second of two volumes recorded at Café Bohemia, a famous night club in Greenwich Village in New York, New York on November 23, 1955.
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Reception
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 has "influenced jazz up to present time."
Personnel
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Production
Songs
1Announcement by Art Blakey0:38
2Sportin' Crowd6:53
3Like Someone in Love9:16