A Night at Birdland Vol. 3

1984 live album by Art Blakey

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 3

Live album by Art Blakey
Released	June 21, 1984 (1984-06-21)
Recorded	February 21, 1954
Studio	Birdland, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	29:37
Label	Toshiba (Japan)

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 3 is a 12" live album containing outtakes from A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1–3, released in 1984 by Toshiba Records in Japan.^[1]

Three of the four tracks on the Japanese 12" Vol. 3 had previously been released as part of a 2 LP Compilation entitled Live Messengers (BN-LA473-J2) in 1975.^[2]

All of the tracks from both Vol. 3's have subsequently been reissued on the CD versions of A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1 & 2.^[3]^[4]

Track listing

Side 1
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Wee-Dot (alternate take)"	J.J. Johnson, Leo Parker	6:53
2.	"Blues (Improvisation)"	Traditional	8:37

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Way You Look Tonight"	Dorothy Fields Jerome Kern	9:59
2.	"Lou's Blues" (previously unreleased)	Lou Donaldson	3:58

Personnel

Art Blakey – drums
Clifford Brown – trumpet
Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone
Horace Silver – piano
Curly Russell – bass

References

^ MATSUBAYASHI, Kohji. "Blue Note Japan Releases: Toshiba Era Part 2 (1983-1988)". microgroove.jp. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
^ "Art Blakey Discography Project". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
^ A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 at Discogs
^ A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 at Discogs

Clifford Brown

Years given are for the recording(s), years in square brackets refer to the listed 12" LP/CD release.

Albums as
leader

Memorial Album (Blue Note, 1953 [1956])
Memorial (Prestige, 1953 [1956])
Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)/Jazz Immortal ([1956])
Jam Session (with Clark Terry & Maynard Ferguson, 1954)

Co-led/with
Max Roach

Best Coast Jazz (1954)
Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954)
Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
Daahoud (1954)
Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
Study in Brown (1955)
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (CB/MRQ, 1956)

Sideman
with others

A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (Art Blakey, 1954)
A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (Art Blakey, 1954)
A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (Art Blakey, 1954)
Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington, 1954)
Helen Merrill (1954)
Sarah Vaughan (1954)

Compilations

Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (with Max Roach, [1995])

v t e Horace Silver
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
Blue Note albums	New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio) (1952)/Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu (1952–53) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55) 6 Pieces of Silver (1956–58) The Stylings of Silver (1957) Further Explorations (1958) Live at Newport '58 (1958) Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet (1959) Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64) The Cape Verdean Blues (1965) The Jody Grind (1966) Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968) You Gotta Take a Little Love (1969) That Healin' Feelin', The United States of Mind, Phase 1 (1970) Total Response, The United States of Mind, Phase 2 (1970–71) All, The United States of Mind, Phase 3 (1972) The United States of Mind (compilation of the 3 'Phase' albums, 1970–72) In Pursuit of the 27th Man (1972) Silver 'n Brass (1975) Silver 'n Wood (1975–76) Silver 'n Voices (1976) Silver 'n Percussion (1977) Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres (1978–79)
Albums released on other labels	Silver's Blue (1956) Live 1964 (1964) Guides to Growing Up (1981) Spiritualizing the Senses (1983) There's No Need to Struggle (1983) The Continuity of Spirit (1985) Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription for the Blues (1997) Jazz Has a Sense of Humor (1998)
Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1954) A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (1954) A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (1954) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1955) The Jazz Messengers (1956) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) Originally (1956)
With others	Introducing Nat Adderley (1955) Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994) Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955) Whims of Chambers (Paul Chambers, 1956) Bohemia After Dark (Kenny Clarke, 1955) Al Cohn's Tones (Al Cohn, 1950) Miles Davis, Volume 3 (1954) Miles Davis Quartet/Blue Haze/Miles Davis Quintet/ Miles Davis All-Star Sextet/Walkin' (1953/54) Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins/Bags' Groove (1954) Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (Lou Donaldson, 1952) Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955) The Art Farmer Septet (1953–54) When Farmer Met Gryce (Art Farmer/Gigi Gryce, 1955) The Complete Roost Recordings (Stan Getz, 1950–51) Nica's Tempo (Gigi Gryce, 1955) Disorder at the Border (Coleman Hawkins, 1952) Milt Jackson Quartet (1955) Plenty, Plenty Soul (Milt Jackson, 1957) The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (J.J. Johnson, 1955) Blowing in from Chicago (Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore, 1957) Hank Mobley Quartet (1955) Hank Mobley Sextet (1956) Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957) Hank Mobley Quintet (1957) J. R. Monterose (1956) Lee Morgan Indeed! (1956) Lee Morgan Sextet (1956) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (1957) Clark Terry (1955)
Selected singles	"Opus de Funk" (1953) "The Preacher"/"Doodlin'" (1955/54) "Señor Blues" (1956) "Sister Sadie" (1959) "Nica's Dream" (1960) "Song for My Father" (1964)
Discography