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Live at the Five Spot (Randy Weston album)

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Released
  
1959

Live at the Five Spot (1959)
  
Uhuru Afrika (1960)

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Fresh Sound Records

Length
  
38:00

Artist
  
Randy Weston

Producer
  
Tom Wilson

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
26 October 1959 The Five Spot Café, New York City

Similar
  
Randy Weston albums, Jazz albums

Randy weston quintet at the five spot hi fly


Live at the Five Spot is a live album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1959 at the Five Spot Café and originally released on the United Artists label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Randy Weston except as indicated

  1. "Hi-Fly" - :21
  2. "Beef Blues Stew" - 5:00
  3. "Where" - 5:53
  4. "Star Crossed Lovers" (Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington) - 5:09
  5. "Spot Five Blues" (Weston, Kenny Dorham) - 10:42
  6. "Lisa Lovely" - 4:38

Personnel

  • Randy Weston - piano
  • Kenny Dorham - trumpet (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
  • Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone
  • Wilbur Little - bass
  • Clifford Jarvis (track 6), Roy Haynes - drums
  • Brock Peters - vocal (track 3)
  • Melba Liston - arranger

    • Songs

    1Hi FlyColeman Hawkins - Brock Peters - Roy Haynes - 7:21
    2Beef Blues StewColeman Hawkins - Brock Peters - Roy Haynes - 5:00
    3WhereColeman Hawkins - Brock Peters - Roy Haynes - 5:55

    References

    Live at the Five Spot (Randy Weston album) Wikipedia
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