Randy Weston

Live at the Five Spot (FSR 1645 CD)

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1959

Live at the Five Spot

Randy Weston

Fresh Sound Records

8427328616454

ZZZ 123978

FSR 1645 CD

JAZZ

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Live at the Five Spot

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Featuring: Kenny Dorham (tp), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Randy Weston (p), Wilbur Little (b), Roy Haynes, Clifford Jarvis (d), Brock Peters (vcl)

The scene for Randy Weston’s Open House was the Five Spot Cafe in Manhattan. The time, a rather dreary Monday in the Fall of 1959, and the setting about as wild a scene as you will ever make.

The live performance recording was scheduled for that same evening, but Coleman Hawkins was somewhere high in the skies between Chicago and New York; Roy Haynes was taking a similar route through the sky from Boston, and Wilbur Little and his bass were last heard from in Washington, D.C. Finally, Melba Liston, hospitalized in California, had air-mailed her arrangements for the date—but they had not as yet been delivered.

At 9:30 p.m. the missing musicians began to gather—Kenny Dorham, trumpet in hand, Hawkins and Haynes from their respective flights, Little from his train.

Shortly thereafter the missing arrangements were delivered, and a tall, rather relieved Randy Weston passed out the music. There was no rehearsal—very little warm-up.

The results are on this album—and you can wrap them up in just two words... Fabulous Musicianship.

Tracklisting:

01. Hi Fly (Weston) 7:21
02. Beef Blues Stew (Weston) 5:00
03. Where (Weston) 5:53
04. Star Crossed Lovers (Strayhorn-Ellington) 5:09
05. Spot Five Blues (Weston-Dorham) 10:42
06. Lisa Lovely (Weston) 4:38

Total time: 38:00 min.

Originally issued on United Artists
UAL 4066 / UAS 5056.

Personnel:

Kenny Dorham (tp, out on #4), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Randy Weston (p), Wilbur Little (b), Roy Haynes (d), Clifford Jarvis (d, added on #6), Brock Peters (vcl on #3). Arrangements by Melba Liston.

Recorded live at the Five Spot, New York City, on October 26, 1959.