''Art Blakey et les Jazz-Messengers au club St. Germain'' are a set of

live album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

s recorded on December 21, 1958, at the Club St. Germain in Paris, France by

Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...

and the Jazz Messengers, released in three volumes by French RCA. All three albums have been collected on CD in the 2015 Sony box set, ''The Complete Columbia and RCA Albums Collection''.

Track listing

Vol. 1

# "Politely" ( Bill Hardman) # " Whisper Not" (

Benny Golson Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launch ...

) # "Now's the Time" ( Charlie Parker) # "The First Theme" (Traditional)

Vol. 2

# "Moanin' with Hazel" ( Bobby Timmons) # "(Evidence) We Named it Justice" ( Thelonious Monk) # "Blues March for Europe No. 1" (

) # " Like Someone in Love" ( Johnny Burke,

Jimmy Van Heusen James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Life and care ...

)

Vol. 3

# "Along Came Manon" (Golson) # "Out of the Past" (Golson) # "

A Night in Tunisia "A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie around 1940–42, while Gillespie was playing with the Benny Carter band. It has become a jazz standard. It is also known as "Interlude", and with lyrics by Raymond Leveen w ...

" (

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but addi ...

Frank Paparelli Frank Paparelli (* December 25, 1917 in Providence, Rhode Island; † May 24, 1973 in Los Angeles, California) was an American Jazz pianist, Composer and Author. He was a pianist in Dizzy Gillespie's band during the mid-1940s, and is notable as t ...

) # "Ending with the Theme" (Traditional)

Personnel

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* Lee Morgan - trumpet *

- tenor saxophone * Bobby Timmons - piano * Jymie Merritt -

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* Kenny Clarke -

on A Night in Tunisia only *Unknown - bongo on A Night in Tunisia only (thought to be Gana M'bow)

References

1959 live albums Art Blakey live albums The Jazz Messengers live albums RCA Records live albums {{1950s-jazz-album-stub