At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1

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.

At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
Live album by
The Jazz Messengers
ReleasedEarly April 1956[1]
RecordedNovember 23, 1955
VenueCafe Bohemia, New York City
GenreHardbop
Length41:54 (original LP)
64:48 (CD reissue)
LabelBlue Note Records
BLP 1507
ProducerAlfred Lion
The Jazz Messengers chronology
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
(1956)		 At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
(1956)		 At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
(1956)

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?".

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

This album, which sees the first version of The Jazz Messengers on record, was noted as not "match[ing] the intensity which the quintet secured at Birdland."[3] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, in particular, is noted as "a somewhat unfocused stylist."[3] However, trumpeter Kenny Dorham is seen as an "elusive brilliance [that] was seldom so extensively captured" and the playing in general "is just as absorbing" as the Birdland albums and is "still timeless music."[3][4]

Track listing
  1. Announcement by Art Blakey 1:32
  2. "Soft Winds" 12:34
  3. "The Theme" 6:11
  4. "Minor's Holiday" 9:11
  5. "Alone Together" 4:15
  6. "Prince Albert" 8:51
  7. "Lady Bird" (reissue bonus track) 7:30
  8. "What's New?" (reissue bonus track) 4:31
  9. "Deciphering the Message" (reissue bonus track) 10:13

Personnel

Production

References
  1. Billboard Apr 14, 1956
  2. Nastos, Michael G.. At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 at AllMusic
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th ed.). Penguin Books. p. 153. ISBN 0-14-101416-4.
  4. Scott Yanow. "At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1". Retrieved 2006-11-26.
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