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The Finest Of Art Blakey Big Band: The Bethlehem Years
| Recorded | Dec 1957 |
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| Label | Bethlehem Records |
| Released | 1957 |
| Personnel | 15 credited players |
| Discogs | master 208879 |
The record
Coltrane sits inside a stacked horn section on this Bethlehem big-band date, Al Cohn and Melba Liston's charts giving Blakey dense ensemble writing far removed from his working combos.
Session personnel
- Bill Graham — alto saxophone
- Sahib Shihab — alto saxophone
- William Slapin — baritone saxophone
- Wendell Marshall — bass
- Art Blakey — drums
- Walter Bishop, Jr. — piano
- Al Cohn — tenor saxophone
- John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
- Frank Rehak — trombone
- Jimmy Cleveland — trombone
- Melba Liston — trombone
- Bill Hardman — trumpet
- Donald Byrd — trumpet
- Idrees Sulieman — trumpet
- Ray Copeland — trumpet
Contemporary reception
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Pressings
| 1976 | Bethlehem Records |
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