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Released
  
October 1963

Ugetsu (1963)
  
A Jazz Message (1964)

Artist
  
The Jazz Messengers

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
June 16, 1963

Ugetsu (1963)
  
Free for All (1964)

Release date
  
October 1963

Label
  
Riverside Records

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Venue
  
Birdland, New York City

Length
  
62:36 (2011 CD reissue)

Similar
  
The Jazz Messengers albums, Jazz albums

Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland is a live jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers released on Riverside Records in October 1963. The album marked Riverside's recording debut at Birdland, one of the most famous and celebrated American jazz clubs.

Contents

The original LP had six tracks and producer Orrin Keepnews stated in the liner notes that "there were other performances taped that night that couldn't be fitted into the resulting album". When the album was released on CD, Keepnews added three new tracks that were recorded that night. The Jazz Messengers' tour in Japan had ended a few months before this live performance; then the band decided to play two tracks as a homage to Japan: the eponymous "Ugetsu" and "On the Ginza".

It was remastered in 2010 and reissued the following year by Original Jazz Classics, with a previously unissued track, "Conception".

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1989 CD release

  1. "One By One" (Wayne Shorter) - 6:18
  2. "Ugetsu" (Cedar Walton) - 11:03
  3. "Time Off" (Curtis Fuller) - 4:56
  4. "Ping-Pong" (Shorter) - 8:09
  5. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:32
  6. "On the Ginza" (Shorter) - 7:04
  7. "Eva" (Shorter) - 5:58
  8. "The High Priest" (Fuller) - 5:27
  9. "The Theme" (Miles Davis) - 1:48

Note

  • Tracks 7, 8, 9 are not part of original album.

    • 2011 CD reissue

    1. "One By One" (Wayne Shorter) - 6:22
    2. "Ugetsu" (Cedar Walton) - 11:03
    3. "Time Off" (Curtis Fuller) - 4:58
    4. "Ping-Pong" (Shorter) - 8:10
    5. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:31
    6. "On the Ginza" (Shorter) - 7:07
    7. "Eva" (Shorter) - 5:55
    8. "The High Priest" (Fuller) - 5:32
    9. "Conception" (George Shearing) - 5:15
    10. "The Theme" (Miles Davis) - 1:43

    Personnel

  • Art Blakey - drums
  • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
  • Curtis Fuller - trombone
  • Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
  • Cedar Walton - piano
  • Reggie Workman - double bass

    • Songs

    1One by One6:19
    2Ugetsu11:02
    3Time Off4:56

    References

    Ugetsu (album) Wikipedia
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