Live At The Five Spot

Randy Weston

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.


Original recordings supervised by Tom Wilson.
This CD reissue by Jordi Pujol.

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