A Night At Birdland Vol. 1 (live album) by Art Blakey

A Night At Birdland Vol. 1 by Art Blakey
(Live album)
Year: 1954
Overall rank: 4,888th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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75/100 (from 46 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1954 (8th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (145th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,888th)
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75/100 (from 46 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.

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Tour-de-force performances by (so I say) the best jazz band in the world at the time recorded beautifully, every instrument from bass to ride cymbal perfectly clear and present, so often not the case in live jazz, or studio recordings for that matter. Even the introduction by the legendary Pee Wee Marquette is classic; if you don't know who he is, you really should check out the excellent write-up on him at the Dangerous Minds web site, he's a jazz immortal. (Disappointingly, if you read that article, I think he pronounces Horace Silver's name correctly on this occasion.) This is an all-time great jazz record.
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