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| Released | October 1963[1] | |||
| Recorded | June 16, 1963 | |||
| Venue | Birdland, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 62:36 (2011 CD reissue) | |||
| Label | Riverside RLP-464 | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| DownBeat (Original Lp release) |   [2] |
| AllMusic |  [3] |
Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland is a live jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers released on Riverside Records in October 1963.[4] The album was recorded at Birdland in New York City.
The original LP had six tracks and producer Orrin Keepnews stated in the liner notes that "there were other performances taped that night that couldn't be fitted into the resulting album". When the album was released on CD, Keepnews added three new tracks that were recorded that night. The Jazz Messengers' tour in Japan had ended a few months before this live performance; then the band decided to play two tracks as a homage to Japan: the Cedar Walton composition "Ugetsu" (which Walton also released under the title "Fantasy in D" on his solo albums) and Wayne Shorter's "On the Ginza".[5]
It was reissued in 2011, once more in the Original Jazz Classics series, with a previously unissued track, "Conception".
- ^ Billboard Oct 19, 1963
- ^ DownBeat: November 21, 1963 vol. 30, no. 30
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Billboard, 19 Oct 1963, p. 11.
- ^ Original liner notes