Monday Night at Birdland

by Hank Mobley, Billy Root, Curtis Fuller & Lee Morgan

Monday Night at Birdland cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1958
  • Label: Roulette
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:45
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Assembling an absolutely stellar hard bop frontline, this fiery club date documents the legendary, uninhibited jam sessions native to the era's greatest jazz venue. The intensely aggressive, blues-drenched improvisations perfectly distill the raw, highly competitive energy of late-fifties New York.

Genres

Descriptors: live, saxophone, improvisation, fast, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Walkin' (12:35)
  2. All The Things You Are (11:17)
  3. Bag's Groove (12:27)
  4. There Will Never Be Another You (9:26)

Credits

  • Hank Mobley - primary artist, tenor saxophone
  • Billy Root - primary artist, tenor saxophone
  • Curtis Fuller - primary artist, trombone
  • Lee Morgan - primary artist, trumpet
  • Tommy Bryant - bass
  • Specs Wright - drums
  • Ray Bryant - piano
  • Richard Carpenter - written-by

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