Tag: 1950s Jazz

Live Jazz Albums From The 1950s

By the time we get to the 1950s, there are a lot of live jazz albums featuring many of the all time great jazz artists.

Below, you’ll find a list of the live albums featured on this website together with a readers poll to find the best live jazz albums.

Live Jazz Albums recorded in the 1950s include:

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco 1959
Louis Armstrong The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings 1947 1956
Louis Armstrong Satchmo At Pasadena 1951
Louis Armstrong Live at the University of North Carolina 1954
Louis Armstrong At The Crescendo 1955 Complete Edition
Louis Armstrong The Great Chicago Concert 1956 Complete
Louis Armstrong Live At The 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival
Count Basie Class of 54
Count Basie Lester Young And The Stars Of Birdland On Tour 1955
Count Basie At Newport 1957
Count Basie The Atomic Band Live In Europe 1959
Count Basie Complete Live At The Americana Hotel 1959
Count Basie The Complete Roulette Live Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra 1959-1962
Count Basie Corner Pocket
Art Blakey & Clifford Brown A Night At Birdland Vol 1 1954
Art Blakey Live in Zurich 1958
Clifford Brown Live at Music City 1955 & More
Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet More Live At Bee Hive Chicago June 30 1955
Dave Brubeck Quartet In Europe Live in Copenhagen March 5 1958
Ornette Coleman Complete Live at The Hillcrest Club 1958
Miles Davis Live Recordings 1948-1957
Miles Davis Birdland 1951
Miles Davis John Coltrane Miles & Coltrane 1955 1958
Miles Davis Live In St Louis 1956
Miles Davis John Coltrane Live In New York 1957 to 1963
Miles Davis At Newport 1958
Miles Davis Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 1958
Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note 1952
Duke Ellington The 1952 Seattle Concert
Duke Ellington Rare Live Recordings 1952 – 53
Duke Ellington The 1953 Pasadena Concert
Duke Ellington At Newport 1956
Duke Ellington Live at the Blue Note 1959
Ella Fitzgerald Ella In Rome The Birthday Concert 1958
Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Carmen McRae At Newport 1957
Ella Fitzgerald At the Opera House 1957
Ella Fitzgerald Live At Mister Kelly’s 1958
Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea 1955
Stan Getz Chet Baker Quartet Live At The Haig 1953
Dizzy Gillespie At Newport 1957
Dizzy Gillespie A Night in Tunisia Big Band Live 1957
Dizzy Gillespie Cool Breeze Big Band Live 1957
Coleman Hawkins Roy Eldridge At Newport 1957
Coleman Hawkins Jamestown NY 1958
Billie Holiday Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You Live Radio TV and Film Recordings 1934-1958
Billie Holiday Rare Live Recordings 1934 – 1959
Billie Holiday Jazz at the Philharmonic The Billie Holiday Story vol 1 1945 to 1958
Billie Holiday Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957
Billie Holiday At Storyville 1951 1953
Billie Holiday Lady Love Live in Basel 1954
Billie Holiday The Essential Billie Holiday Carnegie Hall Concert 1956
Billie Holiday At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival 1957 1958
Charles Mingus at the Bohemia 1955
Charles Mingus In Wonderland 1959
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach 1955
Modern Jazz Quartet At Music Inn Guest Artist Sonny Rollins 1958
Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall 1957
Thelonious Monk John Coltrane Complete Live At The Five Spot 1958
Thelonious Monk In Action 1958
The Gerry Mulligan Quartets in Concert 1957 1962
Charlie Parker Complete Live Performances on Savoy September 29 1947 to October 25 1950
Charlie Parker Liveology 1948 to 1952
Charlie Parker Bird At St. Nick’s 1950
Charlie Parker Complete Live at Cafe Society 1950
Charlie Parker Complete Live at Birdland May 17 1950
Charlie Parker Live with the Big Bands 1951-1954
Charlie Parker At Jirayr Zorthian’s Ranch, 14 July 1952
Charlie Parker Boston 1952 1954
Charlie Parker The Washington Concerts 1953
Charlie Parker Complete Bird at The Open Door 1953
Charlie Parker At Storyville 1953
Charlie Parker Complete Live At The Rockland Palace 1950 to 1952
Charlie Parker The Washington Concerts 1953
Charlie Parker Chet Baker Bird & Chet Live at the Trade Winds 1952
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie Complete Live at Birdland
The Oscar Peterson Trio At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival 1956
The Oscar Peterson Trio at Zardi’s 1955
Bud Powell Jazz At Massey Hall Vol 2 1953
The Quintet Jazz At Massey Hall 1953
Sonny Rollins A Night At The Village Vanguard 1957
Nina Simone At Town Hall 1959
Lester Young Boston 1950
Lester Young In Washington DC 1956 Vol 1
Lester Young In Washington DC 1956 Vol 2
Lester Young In Washington DC 1956 Vol 3
Lester Young In Washington DC 1956 Vol 4

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What Are The Best Live Jazz Albums Of All Time

I don’t have a readers poll to find the best live albums of the 1950s but there is a poll to find the all time best live jazz albums with plenty of albums from the 1950s included:

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The Other Decades Of Live Jazz Albums

1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s

Live Album Polls For The Great Jazz Artists

I have polls 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 –

Charlie Parker Live with the Big Bands 1951-1954

Live with the Big Bands with Charlie Parker, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, and Joe Timer is a live album recorded between 1951 and 1954.

According to Discogs,

Tracks 1 to 3 recorded at the Civic Auditorium, Portland, Oregon, February 25, 1954 with The Stan Kenton Orchestra.
Tracks 4 to 13 recorded at the Municipal Arena, Kansas City, July 22, 1951 with The Woody Herman Herd.
Tracks 14 to 21 recorded at Club Kavakos, Washington D.C., February 22, 1953 with Joe Timer And “The Orchestra”.

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Duke Ellington The 1952 Seattle Concert

The 1952 Seattle Concert is a live album by Duke Ellington.

It was recorded at the Civic Auditorium in Seattle, Washington on March 25, 1952.

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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie Complete Live At Birdland

Complete Live At Birdland is a live album by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

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Miles Davis Birdland 1951

Birdland 1951 is an early live album by Miles Davis.

It was recorded in the New York club over three concerts on:

Tracks 1-3: June 2, 1951
Tracks 4-7: February 17, 1951
Tracks 8-10: September 29, 1951

Playing on tracks 1 to 7 are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone,
J.J. Johnson – trombone,
Kenny Drew – piano,
Tommy Potter – bass,
Art Blakey – drums.

Playing on tracks 8 to 10 are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis -tenor saxophone,
Big Nick Nicholas – tenor saxophone,
Billy Taylor – piano,
Charles Mingus – bass,
Art Blakey – drums.

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Bud Powell Jazz At Massey Hall Vol 2 1953

Jazz At Massey Hall Vol 2 is a live album by the Bud Powell Trio.

It is a sister album of Jazz At Massey Hall by The Quintet of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

In the middle of the concert, the Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie left the stage for a performance of piano jazz which is now included on a Complete version of Jazz At Massey Hall.

Playing at the Massey Hall tracks are:

Bud Powell – piano,
Charles Mingus – bass,Max Roach – drums.

The latest versions of the album include two sets of bonuses:

4 tracks of Powell, George Duvivier (bass) and Art Taylor (drums) from a 1953 nightclub gig, and
4 tracks of pianist Billy Taylor with Charles Mingus. (this is a strange extra as it doesn’t include the headline artist Bud Powell and one tune appears in three versions.)

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Miles Davis Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 1958

Jazz At The Plaza Vol 1 is a live album by the Miles Davis Sextet.

It was recorded on September 9, 1958, at the Persian Room in the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Playing on the album are:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Bill Evans – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

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Charlie Parker Bird At St. Nick’s 1950

Bird At St. Nick’s is a live album by Charlie Parker.

It was recorded at St. Nicholas Arena in New York on February 18, 1950.

Playing on the album are:

Charlie Parker – alto saxophone,
Red Rodney – trumpet,
Al Haig – piano,
Tommy Porter – bass,
Roy Haynes – drums.

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Miles Davis John Coltrane Miles & Coltrane 1955 1958

Miles & Coltrane is a live album by Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

It features two concerts:

Tracks 1 to 5: Newport, Rhode Island, 4 July 1958.
Tracks 6 and 7: New York, 27 October 1955.

The group for Newport in 1958 were:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Bill Evans – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

Playing on the 1955 songs are:

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Red Garland – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

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Count Basie Lester Young And The Stars Of Birdland On Tour 1955

Count Basie Lester Young And The Stars Of Birdland On Tour is a live album.

It was recorded in Topeka, Kansas, February. 1955.

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Louis Armstrong Satchmo At Pasadena 1951

Satchmo At Pasadena is a live album by Louis Armstrong and the All Stars.

It was recorded at Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California on January 30, 1951.

Playing on the album are:

Louis Armstrong – vocals, trumpet,
Velma Middleton – vocals,
Jack Teagarden – trimbone,
Barney Bigard – clarinet,
Earl Hines – piano,
Arvell Shaw – bass,
Cozy Cole – drums.

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