Live at El Matador

Live at El Matador
Live at El Matador
Live album by Vince Guaraldi and Bola Sete
Released	October 1966
Recorded	Spring 1965
Venue	El Matador Jazz Club, San Francisco, California
Genre	Jazz; Bossa nova; Samba;
Length	37:42
Label	Fantasy
Vince Guaraldi chronology
Bola Sete chronology
Singles from Live at El Matador
	"I'm a Loser"; Released: 1966;
Alternate cover
	Fantasy 2000 CD release cover art

Live at El Matador is a live performance album by pianist Vince Guaraldi and guitarist Bola Sete, released in October 1966 by Fantasy Records. It is their third and final recorded collaboration as well as Guaraldi's last release for Fantasy.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
Five Cents Please	^[1]

In 2000, it was issued on CD coupled with Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends (1964) as Vince & Bola.

Background

Live at El Matador is a condensed version of a live performance that Guaraldi and Sete regularly presented at this point in their collaboration. Guaraldi and his trio performed their set first, followed by a solo performance from Sete, and then concluded with Guaraldi's trio rejoining Sete for a joint finale. Live at El Matador contains the first and third segments of a performance, excising Sete's solo set. The original vinyl release contained Guaraldi's opening set on Side One and the concluding Guaraldi/Sete set on Side Two.^[1]

Despite Live at El Matador being a live album, Fantasy Record engineers faded several selections rather than letting them naturally conclude with audience applause. Guaraldi historian and author Derrick Bang commented that this "results in some jarringly abrupt fades, most disturbingly on 'I'm a Loser'."^[1]

Track listing

Side One (Vince Guaraldi Trio)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I'm a Loser"	John Lennon Paul McCartney	2:39
2.	"El Matador"	Vince Guaraldi	4:34
3.	"People" (from the musical Funny Girl)	Bob Merrill Jule Styne	3:53
4.	"Nobody Else"	Vince Guaraldi	2:24
5.	"More" (Theme from Mondo Cane)	Marcello Ciorciolini Norman Newell Nino Oliviero Riz Ortolani	4:37

Side Two (Vince Guaraldi Trio and Bola Sete)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Favela" (aka "O Morro Nao Tem Vez [Somewhere in the Hills]")	Antônio Carlos Jobim Vinicius de Moraes	8:52
7.	"Black Orpheus Suite"	Luiz Bonfá Antônio Carlos Jobim	10:53
Total length:			37:42

Personnel

Credits adapted from rear cover of original 1966 vinyl release.

Bola Sete – guitar (Tracks 6, 7)

Vince Guaraldi Trio

Vince Guaraldi – piano
Tom Beeson – double bass
Lee Charlton – drums

Additional

Wally Heider – mastering
Fred Schill – design^[1]
James Easton – sound engineer
Jack Engelman – liner notes

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue number
United States	1966	Fantasy	Mono LP	3371
			Stereo LP	8371
			Stereo Reel-to-Reel	FAC 8371
	1975	Fantasy	Stereo LP	8371
	1979	Fantasy	Stereo LP	F-8371
	1987	Fantasy/Original Jazz Classics	Stereo LP	OJCCD-289-2, F-8371
	1987	Fantasy/Original Jazz Classics	Stereo LP, red vinyl	OJCCD-289-2, F-8371

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD: Live at El Matador". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
^ Ginell, Richard S.. Vince Guaraldi and Bola Sete: Live at El Matador at AllMusic. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 90. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

External links

Live at El Matador at Discogs (list of releases)

[Bang-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD: Live at El Matador". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved 13 March 2020.

[allmusic-2] Ginell, Richard S.. Vince Guaraldi and Bola Sete: Live at El Matador at AllMusic. Retrieved October 13, 2012.

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 90. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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