Art Blakey Quintet - A Night At Birdland Volume Two '2001
| Artist | Art Blakey Quintet Related artists |
| Album name | A Night At Birdland Volume Two |
| Country | |
| Date | 2001 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Play time | 52:01 |
| Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
| Media | CD |
| Size | 333 MB(+3\%) | 123 MB(+3\%) |
| Price | Download $2.95 |
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Tracklist 01. Wee-Dot (7:17) 02. If I Had You (3:31) 03. Quicksilver (alternate take) (8:46) 04. Nows The Time (9:01) 05. Confirmation (9:11) 06. The Way You Look Tonight (10:15) 07. Lous Blues (4:01) personnel : Art Blakey — drums Clifford Brown — trumpet Lou Donaldson — alto saxophone Horace Silver — piano Curley Russell — bass On this follow-up volume of recordings done live at Birdland from the second-edition Jazz Messengers (officially the Art Blakey Quintet), there are extraordinary high points, along with low points that either result from tiredness or a lack or preparation. With trumpeter Clifford Brown taking over briefly for Donald Byrd, and alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson in the fray post-Hank Mobley, the band has a very different sound, though pianist Horace Silver, Blakey, and bassist Curly Russell (sitting in for Doug Watkins on these recordings only) are solid as a rock. Theres some quintessential bop and hard bop in this set, inspired and hard-charging as one might expect, but the Latin tinge of the original band is gone. Because of Donaldsons predilection for the sound of Charlie Parker, the pure bebop sound is unrelentingly infused into the music. Where Nows the Time works well in a relaxed harmonic stance from Brown and Donaldson, you cant help but notice that the amped-up Confirmation has sloppily missed notes in the melody, while The Way You Look Tonight (included on later reissues) is really loose as the horns come in tentatively and unsure. Wee-Dot fares much better in an assertive, bright sound that clearly is more practiced, representing hard bop at its finest. Donaldson is clearly the dominant player here, with Brown surprisingly taking a back seat, as the strong ballad If I Had You has the altoist alternately singing, sighing, and brilliantly extrapolating on his horn à la Bird. They play together quite well on the signature version of Silvers jaunty hard bop anthem Quicksilver, which famously quotes Oh You Beautiful Doll, and Lous Blues (another bonus track) is a quick unison bop for the appropriate end game. The additional tracks expose the flaws in this very short-lived edition of the Blakey-led combo, but the rest is good enough to carry the estimable reputation of this legendary band.~Michael G. Nastos  EAC LogExact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008 EAC extraction logfile from 16. 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