Blow is a list of the live albums featured on this website together with a poll to find the best live jazz albums.
Live Jazz Albums recorded in the 1960s include:
Cannonball Adderley At The Lighthouse 1960
Cannonball Adderley Cannonball in Europe 1962
The Cannonball Adderley Sextet In New York 1962
Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live At “The Club” 1966
Louis Armstrong The Legendary Berlin Concert vol 1 1965
Chris Barber At The BBC 1961 1962
Count Basie The Complete Roulette Live Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra 1959-1962
Count Basie Live at the Sands (Before Frank) 1966
Tony Bennett & Dave Bubkeck Bennett & Brubeck The White House Sessions Live 1962
Art Blakey Paris Jazz Concert 1961
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Live At Carnegie Hall 1963
Dave Brubeck Quartet Live at Juan Les Pins 1967
The Ornette Coleman Trio At The Golden Circle Vol 1 1965
John Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard 1961
John Coltrane Live Trane The European Tours 1961 1962 1963
John Coltrane Live At Birdland 1963
John Coltrane Live in Stockholm 1963
John Coltrane Afro Blue Impressions 1963
John Coltrane Newport 63
John Coltrane A Love Supreme Live In Juan-les-Pins France 1965
John Coltrane Offering Live At Temple University 1966
John Coltrane Live In Japan 1966
John Coltrane Live at Village Vanguard Again 1966
Miles Davis In Stockholm 1960 Complete
Miles Davis All Of You The Last Tour 1960
Miles Davis In Person Friday & Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk Complete 1961
Miles Davis Friday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete 1961
Miles Davis Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco Complete 1961
Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall 1961
Miles Davis In Europe 1963
Miles Davis Live At The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival
Miles Davis My Funny Valentine 1964
Miles Davis The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965
Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967 The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
Miles Davis Bitches Brew Live 1969 1970
Eric Dolphy Live at the Five Spot Vol 1 1961
Eric Dolphy Live at the Five Spot Vol 2 1961
Eric Dolphy Live At The Five Spot Complete 1961
Eric Dolphy In Europe Vol 1 1961
Eric Dolphy In Europe Vol 2 1961
Eric Dolphy The Illinois Concert 1963
Duke Ellington The Great London Concerts 1963
Duke Ellington A Concert Of Sacred Music From Grace Cathedral 1965
Duke Ellington Berlin 65 / Paris 67
Duke Ellington Live At Cabaret L’Alcazar 1969
Duke Ellington’s 70th Birthday Concert 1969
Bill Evans Sunday At The Village Vanguard 1961
Bill Evans At Shelly’s Manne Hole 1963
Bill Evans Live at Town Hall 1966
Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1968
Bill Evans Live At Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate 1968
Ella Fitzgerald Mack The Knife The Complete Ella in Berlin 1960
Ella Fitzgerald Ella In Hollywood 1961
Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington The Stockholm Concert 1966
Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington Ella & Duke At The Cote D’Azur 1966
Stan Getz Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto #2 Recorded Live At Carnegie Hall 1964
Dizzy Gillespie A Musical Safari Live At The 1961 Monterey Jazz Festival
Dizzy Gillespie An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet 1961
Dizzy Gillespie Legends Live Dizzy Gillespie Quintet 1961
Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy on the French Riviera 1962
Dizzy Gillespie Live At The 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival
Dizzy Gillespie Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac 1967
Coleman Hawkins Alive! At the Village Gate 1962
Earl Hines Coleman Hawkins Roy Eldridge Grand Reunion 1965
Charles Mingus At Antibes 1960
Charles Mingus The Complete Town Hall Concert 1962
Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964
Charles Mingus The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus 1964
Charles Mingus Right Now Live at the Jazz Workshop 1964
Charles Mingus Town Hall Concert 1964
Charles Mingus Eric Dolphy Complete Live in Amsterdam 1964
Charles Mingus At Monterey 1964
Modern Jazz Quartet Dedicated to Connie 1960
Modern Jazz Quartet European Concert Vol 1 1960
The Modern Jazz Quartet Blues At Carnegie Hall 1966
Thelonious Monk At The Blackhawk 1960
Thelonious Monk Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection 1963 -1965
Thelonious Monk At Newport 1963 1965
Thelonious Monk In Tokyo 1963
Thelonious Monk Live At The It Club 1964
Wes Montgomery Full House 1962
Wes Montgomery Wynton Kelly Smokin’ at the Half Note 1965
Wes Montgomery Live In Belgium 1965
Lee Morgan Unforgettable Lee Live At Birdland 1960
The Gerry Mulligan Quartets in Concert 1957 1962
Gerry Mulligan At The Village Vanguard 1960
Bud Powell Live In Lausanne 1962
Sonny Rollins Complete Live At The Village Gate 1962
Sonny Rollins Our Man In Jazz 1962 1963
Sonny Rollins Don Cherry Complete 1963 Stuttgart Concert
Sonny Rollins Don Cherry The Complete 1963 Copenhagen Concert
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The Best Live Jazz Albums Of All Time
I don’t have a readers poll to find the best live albums of the 1960s but there is a poll to find the all time best jazz live albums and plenty of the 1960s albums are nominated:
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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 –
Live At Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate is a live album by Bill Evans.
It was recorded in Greenwich Village in New York City on October 23, 1968.
Playing on the album are:
Bill Evans – piano,
Eddie Gomez – bass,
Marty Morell – drum.
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The Illinois Concert is a live album by Eric Dolphy.
It was recorded at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois on March 10, 1963.
Playing on the album are:
Eric Dolphy – Flute, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone,
Herbie Hancock – Piano,
Eddie Khan – Bass,
J.C. Moses – Drums.
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Paris Jazz Concert is a live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers featuring Wayne Shorter.
It was recorded at Olympia, May 13th 1961.
Playing on the album are:
Wayne Shorter – Tenor Saxophone,
Lee Morgan – Trumpet,
Bobby Timmons – Piano,
Jymie Merritt – Bass,
Art Blakey – Drums.
A Musical Safari Live At The 1961 Monterey Jazz Festival is a live album by the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet featuring Lalo Schifrin.
Gillespie had been interested in Latin rhythms since the 1940s and popular culture caught up with him in the bossa nova craze of the early 1960s.
Playing on the album are:
Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, vocals,
Joe Carroll – vocals,
Leo Wright – saxophone, flute,
Lalo Schifrin – piano,
Bob Cunningham – bass,
Chuck Lampkin – drums.
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Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection 1963 -1965 collects together five live recordings by Thelonious Monk in the early 1960s.
The albums included are:
Complete Live in Amsterdam is a live album by the Charles Mingus / Eric Dolphy Sextet.
It was recorded at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on April 10, 1964.
Eric Dolphy in Berlin on June 29, 1964 from an untreated diabetic coma because of suspected drug abuse.
Playing on the album are:
Eric Dolphy – alto sax, flute, bass clarinet,
Clifford Jordan – tenor sax,
Johnny Coles – trumpet,
Jaki Byard – piano,
Charles Mingus – bass
Dannie Richmond – drums.
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Live At The Five Spot Complete Edition is a live album by the Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Quintet.
It was recorded at the Five Spot cafe in New York City on 16 July 1961.
This brings together three different live albums Live At The Five Spot Vol 1, Five Spot Vol 2 and the Memorial Album. Very sadly, Booker Little died on October 5, 1961, when he was only 23 years old, and Eric Dolphy died on June 29, 1964 when he was 36.
Playing on the album are:
Eric Dolphy – alto sax, clarinet,
Booker Little – trumpet,
Mal Waldron – piano,
Richard Davis – bass,
Ed Blackwell – drums.
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Legends Live is a live album by the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet.
It was recorded at two concerts:
Playing on the album are:
Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet,
Leo Wright – alto saxophone, flute,
Lalo Schifrin – piano,
Bob Cunningham – bass,
Mel Lewis – drums.
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The Great London Concerts is a live album by Duke Ellington with songs from two concerts in England.
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Live Trane: The European Tours is a seven CDs long compilation of live performances by John Coltrane.
The sources are identified as:
For full details of what was recorded where, please see Discogs.
The 1961 quintet was:
John Coltrane – tenor, sax, soprano sax
Eric Dolphy – alto sax, bass clarinet, flute
McCoy Tyner – piano
Reggie Workman – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
The 1962 and ’63 quartets were made up of:
John Coltrane – tenor, sax, soprano sax
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
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