Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1967 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label. The album was nominated for a 1967 Grammy award in the "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group..." category.[3] All tracks are also included on Mosaic's limited edition boxed set, The Complete Solid State Recordings of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and seven tracks were also re-issued in the 1990s on CD as Volume 3 of LRC Ltd.'s (and Laserlight's) series Village Vanguard Live Sessions.[4]
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| Released | 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 1967 April, The Village Vanguard, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 49:26 | |||
| Label | Solid State | |||
| Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra chronology | ||||
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 LRC Ltd CD re-issue | ||||
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 Laserlight CD re-issue | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
Track listing
editLP side A:
LP side B:
- "Don't Git Sassy" – 7:22
- "Willow Tree" (Razaf, Waller) – 5:04
- "Samba Con Getchu" (Brookmeyer) – 12:17
Bonus tracks added to later Blue Note CD reissue:
All songs by Thad Jones except as noted.
Personnel
edit- Thad Jones – flugelhorn
- Mel Lewis – drums
- Roland Hanna – piano
- Richard Davis – bass
- Sam Herman – guitar
- Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
- Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, flute
- Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone, flute
- Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone, clarinet
- Richard Williams – trumpet
- Bill Berry – trumpet
- Snooky Young – trumpet
- Marvin Stamm – trumpet
- Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
- Bob Brookmeyer – trombone
- Garnett Brown – trombone
- Tom McIntosh – trombone
- Cliff Heather – trombone
References and external Links
edit- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 799. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ LA Times awards database, link. Accessed 2008 April 28.
- ^ Village Vanguard Live Sessions at allmusic.com Accessed 2012 April 29.
External links
edit- Live at the Village Vanguard at discogs.com
- Allmusic