Live at Montreux and Northsea

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Released 1981 Length 43:05 Release date 1981 Label Timeless Records		Recorded July 13 & 17, 1980 Artist The Jazz Messengers Producer Wim Wigt Genre Jazz

Venue Northsea Jazz Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands and Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland Live at Montreux and Northsea(1980) Art Blakey in Sweden(1981) Similar The Jazz Messengers albums, Jazz albums

Live at Montreux and Northsea is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Big Band recorded in 1980 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland (with one track recorded at the Northsea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands) and released on the Dutch Timeless label.

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic called it "a historically significant and rather enjoyable release".

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Watson except where noted.

"Minor Thesis" (James Williams) – 13:17
"Wheel Within a Wheel" – 7:02
"Bit a Bittadose" – 6:41
"Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 8:34
"Linwood" – 7:31

Recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, the Netherlands on July 13, 1980 (track 1) and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland on July 17, 1980 (tracks 2–5)