Album: The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Volume 1 by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (1956)
Genre: Jazz
Format: Live

Description: At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 is a live album by the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records. It featured the original incarnation of the Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey's career-spanning band, and is the first of two volumes recorded on November 23, 1955, at Café Bohemia, a famous night club in Greenwich Village in New York.

With the July 31, 2001, CD re-issue, three additional tracks from this night were added: "Lady Bird", "Deciphering the Message", and "What's New?".

Artist Background: Jazz Messengers is a jazz band created in 1953 by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. If he left in 1956, Blakey remained the leader and mentor, so his name and career are closely associated. Active for more than thirty years, this group is the forerunner of hard bop and was characteristic of this current as much by its style as by its composition, a jazz critic will even say that it is the "definition of hard bop". He was also spurred by Blakey a great springboard for many young talents who became... Part of the American music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Music Scene: Part of the American music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, classic, Live


At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 is a live album by the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records. It featured the original incarnation of the Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey's career-spanning band, and is the first of two volumes recorded on November 23, 1955, at Café Bohemia, a famous night club in Greenwich Village in New York.

With the July 31, 2001, CD re-issue, three additional tracks from this night were added: "Lady Bird", "Deciphering the Message", and "What's New?".

The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Volume 1

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

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