24 Feb 2024

The Best Live Jazz of All Time Pt 2

From Inside Out, 5:00 pm on 24 February 2024
Soul supergroup Hipstamatics onstage at the National Jazz Festival, Tauranga

Soul supergroup Hipstamatics onstage at the National Jazz Festival, Tauranga Photo: Hipstamatics

 

There's something about live recordings - they have an energy and excitement that can't be found anywhere else. This week Nick selects two hours' worth of the best live recordings in jazz history - from Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert, to Bill Evans' Sunday at the Village Vanguard.

 

 

Missed Part 1 of this show? Check it out here

 

MUSIC DETAILS:

# Artist: Song: Composer: Album Label: Duration:
1 Art Blakey Quintet A Night in Tunisia Gillespie A Night at Birdland Blue Note 09:20
2 Benny Goodman One O'Clock Jump Basie Live at Carnegie Hall Columbia 06:38
3 Bill Evans Trio All of You Porter Sunday at the Village Vanguard Riverside 08:17
4 Thelonious Monk Coming on the Hudson Monk Thelonous in Action: Recorded at the Five Spot Café Riverside 05:24
5 John Coltrane  Naima Coltrane At the Village Vanguard Impulse 07:40
6 Buddy Rich Love For Sale Porter Big Swing Face (Live) Pacific Jazz 04:51
7 Keith Jarrett Encore from Tokyo Jarrett The Sun Bear Concerts ECM 08:16

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