12 Oct 2024

The Best Live Jazz of All Time Pt 1

From Inside Out, 5:01 pm on 12 October 2024
THE JAZZ MESSENGERS . CLUB LE COATELAN . PLOUGONVEN . FINISTERE . 3 MARS 1985 .

Photo: Roland Godefroy

 

There's something about live recordings - they have an energy and excitement that can't be found anywhere else. This week Nick selects two hours' worth of the best live recordings in jazz history - from Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert, to Bill Evans' Sunday at the Village Vanguard.

 

 

Don't forget to check out more live jazz in Part 2!

 

MUSIC DETAILS:

# Artist: Song: Composer: Album Label: Duration:
1 Charlie Parker & Lester Young After You've Gone Layton / Creamer Bird & Pres at JAPT Verve 07:37
2 Wynton Kelly and Wes Montgomery Unit 7 Jones Smokin' at the Half Note Verve 06:43
3 Erroll Garner Teach Me Tonight Cahn / De Paul Concert By The Sea Columbia 03:44
4 Sonny Rollins I Can't Get Started Duke / I Gershwin A Night at the Village Vanguard Blue Note 04:32
5 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra Jeep's Blues Ellington / Hodges At Newport Columbia 04:58
6 Dinah Washington with Clifford Brown Lover Come Back To Me Romberg / Hammerstein Dinah Jams Emarcy 09:54
7 Miles Davis All Blues Davis My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert Columbia 08:57
8 Billie Holiday Body and Soul Green / Heyman / Sour / Eyton The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Verve 02:38

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