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The Night Of The Cookers - Live At Club La Marchal - Volume 2

Freddie Hubbard

Recorded	Apr 9, 1965
Label	Blue Note
Catalog	BST 84208
Released	1965
Personnel	7 credited players
Discogs	master 408280

The record

The second volume from this marathon club date keeps Hubbard and Lee Morgan sparring over Mabern's piano, the twin horns pushing each other into longer choruses. Recorded live rather than in the studio, it's mid-60s hard bop at its rawest.

Session personnel

James Spaulding — alto saxophone, flute
Larry Ridley — bass
Big Black — congas
Pete La Roca — drums
Harold Mabern — piano
Freddie Hubbard — trumpet
Lee Morgan — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 19 pressings on file.

1966	Blue Note · BLP 4208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve
1966	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve
1966	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
1966	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
1966	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve
1973	Blue Note · 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
1966	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1971	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1973	Blue Note · 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1977	Blue Note — STEREO
1977	Blue Note · BST 84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1977	Blue Note · BST-84208 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1997	Blue Note · CDP 7243 8 28882 2 2 — CD, Album, Reissue
1997	Blue Note · TOCJ-4208 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo