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The recordings were made by the radio station WABC-FM, in 1965, for a Friday radio show called "Portraits in Jazz" with Alan Grant (né Abraham Grochowsky; 1919–2012). Coltrane's group played at the Half Note from March 19–April 4 [3] and again from May 4–9 [4] of that year.
Live at the Half Note is a live album by American jazz saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh recorded at the Half Note in 1959 accompanied by Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, and Paul Motian. It was first released on the Verve label in 1994 as a double CD set. [1] [2] [3]
Half Note Records is a jazz record label founded by the Blue Note Jazz Club in 1998. [1] Although it began releasing live recordings from the club, the label expanded to produce studio albums. [2] Half Note has received critical acclaim for many of its releases.
It was recorded live in June 1965 at the Half Note Club in New York City and September 22, 1965 at Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The album combines guitarist Montgomery with the Miles Davis rhythm section from 1959–1963 of Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb. The album's versions of "Unit 7" and "Four on Six ...
Live at the Half Note may refer to: Live at the Half-Note, a 1964 album by Art Farmer's Quartet; Live at the Half Note (Lee Konitz album), recorded in 1959, released in 1994; Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up, a 2005 compilation of 1965 radio broadcasts from the Half Note Club
At the Half Note Cafe, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related live albums by American trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded at the Half Note in Manhattan on November 11, 1960 and released on Blue Note the following year. Byrd's quintet features saxophonist Pepper Adams and rhythm section Duke Pearson, Laymon Jackson and Lex Humphries.
Album Label Year released Notes 1957 The Montgomery Brothers and 5 Others: World Pacific: 1958 Features Freddie Hubbard. Reissued as Fingerpickin ' (Pacific Jazz, 1996) 1957-58 Wes, Buddy and Monk Montgomery: Pacific Jazz: 1961 1958 Montgomeryland: Pacific Jazz 1960 Reissued as Far Wes (Pacific Jazz, 1990) 1961? Groove Yard: Riverside: 1961 1961
Scott Yanow's five-star AllMusic review calls the recording "[a]rguably John Coltrane's finest all-around album". [4] A review in All About Jazz states: "Coltrane Live at Birdland showcases 'The Great Quartet' in excellent form: Elvin banging and cursin', McCoy a steady force maintaining the form, Jimmy Garrison pacing the beat and Coltrane stretching out into space filling the void...