A Night at Birdland

Album by Art Blakey & Buddy Rich & Dinah Washington & Dizzy Gillespie

A Night at Birdland is a live album by American jazz drummer Art Blakey, released in 1954. The recording presents a raw, hard bop sound rooted in bebop and blues, with driving rhythms, spirited improvisation and dynamic group interplay, and it documents an early, influential phase in Blakey's career that helped shape the hard bop movement.

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  1. 1.
    A Night in Tunisia
    12:50
  2. 2.
    What a Difference a Day Makes
    5:58
  3. 3.
    Makin' Whoopee
    1:52
  4. 4.
    Somewhere Along the Line
    3:07
  5. 5.
    This Bitter Earth
    3:52
  6. 6.
    A Foggy Day
    1:18
  7. 7.
    Unforgettable
    2:24
  8. 8.
    There Goes My Heart
    3:07
  9. 9.
    Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
    11:26
  10. 10.
    My Man
    3:59
  11. 11.
    Toccata
    12:09

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