Category: Jazz Live Albums

Jazz Live Albums

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I have also split jazz albums by decade to help you find albums that fit your tastes as jazz evolves from the early days through swing, bebop, hard bop and cool through to fusion and more modern jazz.

I have polls to find the best live jazz albums for the following artists: – Louis Armstrong –  Count Basie – John Coltrane – Miles Davis – Eric Dolphy – Duke Ellington – Dizzy Gillespie –  Billie Holiday – Charles Mingus – Thelonious Monk – Charlie Parker – Lester Young –

 

Miles Davis Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete 1961

Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete is a live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded on April 22, 1961.

Friday and Saturday Night can be bought together and Friday Night is also available on its own.

Playing on the album are

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone,
Wynton Kelly – piano,
Paul Chambers – bass,
Jimmy Cobb – drums.

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Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1968

At The Montreux Jazz Festival is a live album by Bill Evans.

It was recorded at the Casino de Montreux in Montreux, Switzerland on June 15, 1968.

Playing on the album are:

Bill Evans – piano,
Eddie Gomez – bass,
Jack DeJohnette – drums.

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Wayne Shorter Footprints Live 2001

Footprints Live is a live album by Wayne Shorter.

It was recorded at three different venues in Europe in 2001:

  • Tracks 1, 2 and 6 were recorded at the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain on July 20, 2001.
  • Tracks 3, 4, 5 and 7 were recorded at the Jardins Palais Longchamps in Marseilles, France on July 24, 2001.
  • Track 8 was recorded at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy on July 14, 2001.

Playing on the album are:

Wayne Shorter – saxophone,
Danilo Perez – piano,
John Patitucci – bass,
Brian Blade – drums.

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Bud Powell Live In Lausanne 1962

Live In Lausanne 1962 is a live album by Bud Powell.

It was recorded for Lausanne Radio in Lausanne in Switzerland from a performance on January 31, 1962.

Playing on the album are:

Bud Powell – piano,
Bob Jacquillard -bass,
Mike Stevenot – drums.

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Keith Jarrett Still Live 1986

Still Live is a live album by Keith Jarrett.

It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, Munich in Germany on July 13, 1986.

Playing on the album are:

Keith Jarrett – piano,
Gary Peacock – bass,
Jack DeJohnette – drums.

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Lee Morgan Live At The Lighthouse 1970

Live At The Lighthouse is a live album by Lee Morgan.

It was recorded at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California on July 10, 11 & 12, 1970.

Playing on the album are:

Lee Morgan – trumpet,
Bennie Maupin – flute, tenor saxophone,
Harold Mabern – piano,
Jymie Merritt – bass,
Mickey Roker – drums,
Jack DeJohnette – drums.

Beware of an imposter album, also called Live At The Lighthouse which people say is from radio shows a few weeks earlier than the proper album.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra Between Nothingness & Eternity 1973

Between Nothingness & Eternity is a live album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

It was recorded at the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park, New York on August 18, 1973.

Playing on the album are:

John McLaughlin – guitar,
Jan Hammer – piano, synthesizer,
Jerry Goodman – violin,
Rick Laird – bass,
Billy Cobham – drums.

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Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol 1 1980 – 2007

Road Shows Vol 1 is a compilation of live recordings by Sonny Rollins from concerts between October 1980 and September 2007.

Track 1 recorded at Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan; May 25, 1986.
Track 2 recorded at La Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France; May 15, 2006.
Track 3 recorded at Umea Jazz Festival in Sweden; October 25, 1980.
Track 4 recorded at Congress Hall, Warsaw Jazz Jamboree in Poland; October 23, 1980.
Track 5 recorded at Pantheon Tama, Tama City, Japan; June 8, 2000.
Track 6 recorded at Royal Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; June 24, 2007.
Track 7 recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City; September 18, 2007.

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Cannonball Adderley Cannonball in Europe 1962

Cannonball in Europe is a live album by the Cannonball Adderley Sextet.

It was recorded at the Comblain-la-Tour in Belgium on August 4 & 5 1962.

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Louis Armstrong The Legendary Berlin Concert vol 1 1965

The Legendary Berlin Concert vol 1 is a live album by Louis Armstrong & his All Stars.

It was recorded at the Friedrichstadtpalast in East Berlin (i.e. behind the “wall”) on March 22, 1965.

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