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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

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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.

Contents

Reception

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

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Watson except where noted.

  1. "Minor Thesis" (James Williams) – 13:17
  2. "Wheel Within a Wheel" – 7:02
  3. "Bit a Bittadose" – 6:41
  4. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 8:34
  5. "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)

    • Personnel

  • Art Blakey, John Ramsey – drums
  • Valery Ponomarev, Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
  • Robin Eubanks – trombone
  • Bobby Watson – alto saxophone
  • Branford Marsalis – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Bill Pierce – tenor saxophone
  • James Williams – piano
  • Kevin Eubanks – guitar
  • Charles Fambrough – bass

    • Songs

    1Minor Thesis13:42
    2A Wheel Within a Wheel7:50
    3Bit a Bittadose6:00

    References

    Live at Montreux and Northsea Wikipedia
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