1962 live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Three Blind Mice jazz album released by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers on the United Artists Jazz label, featuring live material recorded in 1962 Club Renaissance , Hollywood . It was reissued later in 1962 in two volumes by Blue Note Records , adding two tracks recorded in 1961 at The Village Gate and also unreleased material from the primary session. It was bassist Jymie Merritt 's final recording with the group before having to leave to recover from an illness; he would be replaced by Reggie Workman .
United Artists and Blue Note re-issued a two-volume CD set, Three Blind Mice Vols. 1 & 2 , with all available live tracks from the original date of recording and an alternate take.
Track listing
Three Blind Mice
"Three Blind Mice" (Fuller ) - 8:20
"Blue Moon " (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) - 6:01
"That Old Feeling " (Lew Brown , Sammy Fain ) - 6:36
"Plexus" (Walton ) - 5:51
"Up Jumped Spring" (Hubbard ) - 9:48
"When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter , Spencer Williams ) - 4:11 Three Blind Mice, Vol. 1
"Three Blind Mice" (Fuller ) - 8:20
"Blue Moon " (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) - 6:01
"That Old Feeling " (Lew Brown , Sammy Fain ) - 6:36
"Plexus" (Walton ) - 5:51
"Up Jumped Spring" (Hubbard ) - 9:48
"Up Jumped Spring [alternate take]" (Hubbard ) - 5:18
"When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter , Spencer Williams ) - 4:11
"Children of the Night" (Shorter ) - 8:13 Three Blind Mice, Vol. 2
"It's Only a Paper Moon " (Harold Arlen , E.Y. "Yip" Harburg , Billy Rose ) - 13:27
"Mosaic" (Walton ) - 12:30
"Ping Pong" (Shorter ) - 12:24
"The Promised Land" (Walton ) - 13:13
"Arabia" (Fuller ) - 11:25 "The Promised Land" and "Arabia" recorded August 17, 1961 at the Village Gate , NYC by Rudy Van Gelder
All others recorded March 18, 1962 at Club Renaissance, Hollywood, CA by Wally Heider
Personnel
References
Studio Live Compilation Soundtrack Art Blakey Related
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
Albums
Open Sesame Goin' Up Hub Cap Minor Mishap Dedication! Duke Pearson , 1961)Ready for Freddie The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard Hub-Tones Here to Stay The Body & the Soul Breaking Point! Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank Jimmy Heath , 1965)The Night of the Cookers Blue Spirits Backlash High Blues Pressure A Soul Experiment The Black Angel The Hub of Hubbard Red Clay Straight Life Sing Me a Song of Songmy İlhan Mimaroğlu , 1970)First Light Polar AC Sky Dive Keep Your Soul Together Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One In Concert Volume Two Stanley Turrentine , 1974)High Energy Gleam Liquid Love Windjammer Bundle of Joy Super Blue The Love Connection Skagly Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 The Alternate Blues Clark Terry , Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson , 1980)The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 Born to Be Blue Keystone Bop: Sunday Night Outpost Rollin' Splash Above & Beyond Back to Birdland Face to Face Ride Like the Wind The Rose Tattoo Sweet Return Double Take Woody Shaw , 1985)Life Flight The Eternal Triangle Feel the Wind Art Blakey , 1988)Times Are Changing Topsy – Standard Book Bolivia At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles Live at Fat Tuesday's Blues for Miles MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon New Colors On the Real Side With Art /The WithDexter WithHerbie WithBobby WithQuincy WithWayne With
The Soul of the City Manny Albam , 1966)The Other Side of Abbey Road George Benson , 1969)Out of This World Walter Benton , 1960)True Blue Tina Brooks , 1960)God Bless the Child Kenny Burrell , 1971)Cables' Vision George Cables , 1979)Droppin' Things Betty Carter , 1990)Free Jazz Ornette Coleman , 1960)Olé Coltrane John Coltrane , 1961)Africa/Brass Ascension Muses for Richard Davis Outward Bound Eric Dolphy , 1960)Out to Lunch! Undercurrent Kenny Drew , 1960)Leaving This Planet Charles Earland , 1973)Booker 'n' Brass Booker Ervin , 1967)Interplay Bill Evans , 1962)Sonic Text Joe Farrell , 1979)Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone Curtis Fuller , 1960)Soul Trombone Cabin in the Sky Take a Number from 1 to 10 Benny Golson , 1961)Pop + Jazz = Swing Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty Sister Salvation Slide Hampton , 1960)Drum Suite The Quota Jimmy Heath , 1961)Triple Threat Big Band Joe Henderson , 1996)Pax Andrew Hill , 1965)Compulsion Sunflower Milt Jackson , 1972)Goodbye 52nd Street Billy Joel , 1978)Reg Strikes Back Elton John , 1988)J.J. Inc. J.J. Johnson , 1960)Echoes of an Era Chaka Khan , 1982)Essence John Lewis , 1960–62)Water Sign Jeff Lorber , 1979)Doin' the Thang! Ronnie Mathews , 1963)Bluesnik Jackie McLean , 1961)MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration Modern Jazz Quartet , 1994)Fingerpickin' Wes Montgomery , 1958)Roll Call Hank Mobley , 1960)The Blues and the Abstract Truth Oliver Nelson , 1961)Sweet Honey Bee Duke Pearson , 1966)The Right Touch Contours Sam Rivers , 1965)Drums Unlimited Max Roach , 1965)East Broadway Run Down Sonny Rollins , 1966)Numbers Rufus , 1978)Once a Thief and Other Themes Lalo Schifrin , 1965)Giant Box Don Sebesky , 1973)Sugar Stanley Turrentine , 1970)Together McCoy Tyner , 1978)Quartets 4 X 4 Soundscapes Cedar Walton , 1980)Uhuru Afrika Randy Weston , 1960)Blue Moses
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As AsArt Blakey The Jazz WithArt Farmer Benny The Jazztet WithEddie Harris WithBilly Higgins WithMilt Jackson WithEtta James WithClifford WithBlue WithHouston With
God Bless Jug and Sonny Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt , 1973)Left Bank Encores Something for Lester Ray Brown , 1977)Slow Drag Donald Byrd , 1967)The Almoravid Joe Chambers , 1971–73)Somethin's Cookin' Junior Cook , 1981)Broken Shadows Ornette Coleman , 1971–72)Katumbo (Dance) Giant Steps John Coltrane , 1959)Up, Up and Away Sonny Criss , 1967)The Beat Goes On! This Is the Moment! Kenny Dorham , 1958)Blue Spring Cannonball Adderley , 1959)It's All Right! Teddy Edwards , 1967)Soul Trombone Curtis Fuller , 1961)Smokin' Tangerine Dexter Gordon , 1972)Generation Bush Dance Johnny Griffin , 1978)Roots Slide Hampton , 1985)The Quota Jimmy Heath , 1961)Triple Threat Mode for Joe Joe Henderson , 1966)Hub Cap Freddie Hubbard , 1961)Here to Stay The Body & the Soul Bolivia Highway One Bobby Hutcherson , 1978)Farewell Keystone Really Livin' J.J. Johnson , 1959)J.J. Inc. Save Your Love for Me Etta Jones , 1986)Advance! Philly Joe Jones , 1978)Drum Song Seven Minds Sam Jones , 1974)Something in Common First Class Kloss! Eric Kloss , 1967)Abbey Is Blue Abbey Lincoln , 1959)Strings! Pat Martino , 1967)From This Moment On! Charles McPherson , 1968)Horizons Caramba! Lee Morgan , 1968)The Sixth Sense The Mode Sonny Red , 1961)Sonny Red Setting Standards Woody Shaw , 1983)For Losers Archie Shepp , 1968–69)Kwanza Now Is the Time Idrees Sulieman , 1976)Goodbye Yesterday Lucky Thompson , 1972)Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail I Offer You Another Story Stanley Turrentine , 1969)Up Front David Williams , 1986)
