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 –
The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus is a live recording by the Charles Mingus Quintet.
It was recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France on April 19, 1964.
Playing on the album are:
Eric Dolphy – Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute
Clifford Jordan – Tenor Saxophone
Jaki Byard – Piano
Charles Mingus – Bass
Dannie Richmond – Drums
Johnny Coles guest starred on trumpet on So Long Eric.
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Live At Cabaret L’Alcazar is a live album by Duke Ellington.
It was recorded at the Cabaret L’Alcazar in Paris, France in 1969.
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Live At Birdland is an album by John Coltrane that is partly recorded live in concert and partly in the studio.
Tracks 1 to 3 were recorded at the club in New York City on October 8, 1963. The remaining two tracks on the original vinyl album were recorded in the studio in November 1963 and the CD bonus was recorded in March 1963.
Playing on the album are:
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
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My Funny Valentine is a live album by Miles Davis.
His quintet is recorded at the Philharmonic Hall in New York City on February 12, 1964.
Playing on the album are:
Miles Davis – trumpet
George Coleman – tenor sax
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums
The same performance also produced the Four and More live album.
The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel is a live album by Miles Davis.
It was recorded at the Plugged Nickel nightclub in Chicago on December 22 and 23, 1965. The seven disc CD boxset was released in July 1995 and a single disc Highlights was released in November 1995.
It captures recordings of seven performance sets over the two nights by the second great Davis quintet.
Playing on the album are:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums
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Live At Carnegie Hall is a live album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
It was recorded at the Carnegie Hall in New York on February 22, 1963.
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Offering: Live At Temple University is a live album by jazz legend John Coltrane.
It was recorded in his home town of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Temple University on November 11, 1966.
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Live At The Village Vanguard: The Master Takes is a live album by John Coltrane.
It was recorded in New York City on November 2nd and 3rd, 1961.
Various versions of recordings of these nights exist.
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Sunday At The Village Vanguard is a live album by the Bill Evans Trio.
It was recorded at the Village Vanguard, New York City on June 25, 1961 and released later the same year.
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Mingus At Antibes is a live album by Charles Mingus.
It was recorded at the Antibes Jazz Festival in France on the 13 July 1960 and it was finally released in 1976.
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