Tag: 1980s jazz

Live Jazz Albums From The 1980s

Listed below are links to the live albums featured on the website and a poll to find the best live jazz albums.

Live Jazz Albums recorded in the 1980s include:

Chet Baker In Tokyo 1987
Chet Baker One Night In Tokyo 1987
Chet Baker My Favourite Songs The Last Great Concert 1988 Vol 1
Art Blakey Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1985
Miles Davis Live In Poland 1983
Miles Davis Live Around the World 1988 to 1991
Al DiMeola John McLaughlin Paco DeLucia Friday Night in San Francisco 1980
Stan Getz Serenity 1987
Stan Getz Anniversary 1987
Keith Jarrett Still Live 1986
Oscar Peterson Live 1986

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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 decade but there is a poll to find the all time best live jazz albums:

What Are The FIVE Best Live Jazz Albums?

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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 –

Miles Davis Live In Poland 1983

Live In Poland 1983 is a live album by the Miles Davis Sextet.

It was recorded at Congress Hall in Warsaw, Poland on October 13, 1983 plus three bonus tracks from a concert in New York in July 1981.

Playing on the album on the Poland recordings are:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Bill Evans – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute,
John Scofield – guitar,
Robert Irving III – keyboards,
Darryl Jones – bass,
Al Foster – drums,
Mino Cinelu – percussion.

The New York 1981 recordings feature:

Miles Davis – trumpet,
Bill Evans – saxophones,
Mike Stern – guitar,
Marcus Miller – bass,
Al Foster – drums,
Mino Cinelu – percussion.

Miles Davis Live In Poland 1983

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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.

Keith Jarrett Still Live

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Stan Getz Anniversary 1987

Anniversary is a live album by Stan Getz.

It was recorded at the Montmartre club in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 6, 1987.

Playing on the album are:

Stan Getz – Tenor Saxophone,
Kenny Barron – Piano,
Rufus Reid – Bass,
Victor Lewis – Drums.

Stan Getz Anniversary

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Art Blakey Live At Ronnie Scott’s 1985

Live at Ronnie Scott’s is a live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

It was recorded at Ronnie Scott’s club in London on February 25th, 1985.

Playing on the album are:

Donald Harrison – Alto Saxophone,
Jean Toussaint – Tenor Saxophone,
Terence Blanchard – Trumpet,
Mulgrew Miller – Piano,
Lonnie Plaxico – Bass,
Art Blakey – Drums.

Art Blakey Live At Ronnie Scott's

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Chet Baker My Favourite Songs The Last Great Concert 1988 Vol 1

My Favourite Songs: The Last Great Concert is a live album by Chet Baker.

It was recorded in concert on April 28th, 1988 at the Funkhaus, Hannover, West Germany and a second volume from the same concert was also issued. Two weeks later, Baker died in Amsterdam.

Chet Baker My Favourite Songs

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Oscar Peterson Live 1986

Oscar Peterson Live is a live album by Oscar Peterson.

It was recorded at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles on November 12 and 14, 1986.

Playing on the album are:

Oscar Peterson – Piano,
Joe Pass – Guitar,
David Young – Bass,
Martin Drew – Drums.

Oscar Peterson Live

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Chet Baker In Tokyo 1987

Chet Baker In Tokyo is a live album by Chet Baker.

It was recorded on June 14, 1987 at Hitomi-Kine-Kodo in Tokyo, Japan.

This concert has also been released as One Night In Tokyo but it only has nine tracks – For All We Know and Broken Wing are missing from One Night but included in this album.

Chet Baker In Tokyo

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Chet Baker One Night In Tokyo 1987

One Night In Tokyo is a live album and DVD by Chet Baker.

It was recorded at Hitomi-Kine-Kodo, Tokyo on June 14, 1987. A longer version has been released as Chet Baker Live In Tokyo with eleven instead of nine tracks.

Chet Baker One Night In Tokyo

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Stan Getz Serenity 1987

Serenity is a live album by Stan Getz.

It was recorded at The Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 6, 1987 and broadcast on the radio. The Anniversary album was also recorded there.

Playing on the album are:

  • Stan Getz – saxophone
  • Kenny Barron – piano
  • Rufus Reid – bass
  • Victor Lewis – drums

Stan Getz Serenity

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Al DiMeola John McLaughlin Paco DeLucia Friday Night in San Francisco 1980

Friday Night in San Francisco is a live acoustic album by Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia.

It was recorded at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on December 5, 1980 except for the final track, Guardian Angel which was recorded in the studio.

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