At the Cafe Bohemia Vol.1 é um album ao vivo dos The Jazz Messengers com a encarnação original da banda que acompanhou a carreira de Art Blakey, e é o primeiro de dois volumes gravados em 23 de Novembro, 1955 no Café Bohemia no Greenwich Village em New York. Corte a partir das Master Tapes Mono Originais Analógicas por Kevin Gray, esta é a reedição audiófila defiitiva!

• Edição Limitada
• Apenas 1500 unidades não-numeradas disponíveis mundialmente
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Originais Blue Note de Rudy Van Gelder (mono)
• Remasterizado por Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman na AcousTech
• Corte por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Duplo LP com corte a 45rpm para dinâmica superior
• Vinil Virgem 80 gramas prensado na RTI USA
• Capa Gatefold extra-grossas de ultra-durabilidade
• Capa gatefold Deluxe com fotos da sessão em alta resolução

For Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, it all began in 1955. One could trace the beginnings of hard bop to the underrated classic recordings that Blakey and Horace Silver made with Miles Davis in the early 1950s, and there was an important pre-Messengers quintet that they had with Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson in 1954. But it was the 1955 group which debuted on the Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers album that really launched both Blakey’s band and the Blue Note label’s commitment to recording the most exciting hard bop recordings ever heard.

A few months later the same group, with Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley, recorded two albums at New York’s Café Bohemia, showing that not only was the music more durable than one record, but that it would result in dozens of superb gems. The excitement of both performing in a brand new group and creating new music can be heard throughout this dazzling disc which contains the original versions of Dorham’s “Minor’s Holiday” and “Prince Albert.” This was history in the making and the musicians knew it.

Músicos:

Kenny Dorham, trompete
Hank Mobley, sax tenor
Horace Silver, piano
Doug Watkins, contrabaixo
Art Blakey, bateria

Lista de Faixas:

1. Soft Winds
2. The Theme
3. Minor's Holiday
4. Alone Together
5. Prince Albert

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