At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2

Infobox Album |
Name = At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
Type = Live album
Artist = Art Blakey


Released = 1955
Recorded = November 23, 1955
Genre = Hard bop
Length = 62:15
Label = Blue Note Records (1955)
Producer = Michael Cuscuna
Alfred Lion
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2b861vs8zzza link]
*Penguin Guide to Jazz rating|3.5|4
Last album ="At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1"
(1955)
This album = "At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2"
(1955)
Next album ="The Jazz Messengers (album)"
(1956)

"At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2" is a 1955 live album release by jazz drummer Art Blakey. It was first released by Blue Note Records. This record featured the first incarnation of The Jazz Messengers, Blakey's most endearing band, and was the second of two volumes recorded at Cafe Bohemia, a famous night club in Greenwich Village in New York, New York on November 23, 1955.

Track listing

Personnel

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers:
*Art Blakey — drums
*Horace Silver — piano
*Kenny Dorham — trumpet
*Hank Mobley — saxophone (tenor)
*Doug Watkins — bass

Production:
*Bob Bluementhal, Leonard Feather — liner notes
*Michael Cuscuna — reissue producer
*John Hermansader — cover design
*Alfred Lion — producer
*Rudy Van Gelder — digital remastering
*Francis Wolff — photography

Reception

This album, which sees the first version of The Jazz Messengers on record, was noted as not "match [ing] the intensity which the quintet secured at Birdland."cite book|last = Cook| first = Richard| authorlink = Richard Cook| coauthors = & Brian Morton| title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th Edition)|publisher = Penguin Books| year = 2004|pages =153| id = ISBN 0-14-101416-4 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, in particular, is noted as "a somewhat unfocused stylist." However, trumpeter Kenny Dorham is seen as an "elusive brillance [that] was seldom so extensively captured" and the playing in general "is just as absorbing" as the Birdland albums and has "influenced jazz up to present time." [cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2b861vs8zzza|title= At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2|author= Scott Yanow|accessdate=2006-11-26]

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