Artist: Art Blakey
Album: A Night in Birdland, Volume 1
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1954/2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 37:23
Total Tracks: 5
Total Size: 345 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Art Blakey Quintet – Introduction by Pee Wee Marquette / Split Kick (Live) (09:44)
1-2. Art Blakey Quintet – Once in a While (Live) (05:17)
1-3. Art Blakey Quintet – Quicksilver (Live) (06:38)
1-4. Art Blakey Quintet – A Night in Tunisia (Live) (09:22)
1-5. Art Blakey Quintet – Mayreh (Live) (06:20)

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A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 is a 1954 release by jazz artist Art Blakey, and a quintet which featured Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver and Curly Russell. It was first released by Blue Note Records as a 10″ LP (BLP 5037) and then as a 12″ LP (BLP 1521) containing material from the second 10″ album. It was reissued for the first time on CD in 1987 with two additional tracks (an alternate take of Wee-Dot and an improvisational piece titled Blues), previously released on a 2 LP Compilation in 1975 called Live Messengers (BN-LA473-J2). The CD was reissued again in 2001 as an “RVG Edition” remastered by Rudy Van Gelder with the tracks in a different order. The 1987 CD used the second 12″ LP cover, the 2001 CD revived the original 10″ LP cover.All of the music surfaced as part of a Clifford Brown box set for Mosaic Records (MR5-104) and a complete Clifford Brown set put out by Capitol has also appeared.

The recording was produced by Alfred Lion and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note. The reissues were produced by Michael Cuscuna. The spoken announcement by Pee Wee Marquette is sampled in the US3 song “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)”