Blue Note · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Blue Lights, Volume 1
| Recorded | May 14, 1958 |
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| Label | Blue Note |
| Catalog | BLP 1596 |
| Released | 1958 |
| Personnel | 8 credited players |
| Discogs | master 391057 |
The record
Blakey drives the date hard while Brooks and Cook spar their tenors against Louis Smith's trumpet, two pianists swapping the comping chair. Burrell's clean lines anchor a front line built on blues heat, cut in May of 1958.
Session personnel
- Sam Jones — bass
- Art Blakey — drums
- Kenny Burrell — guitar
- Bobby Timmons — piano
- Duke Jordan — piano
- Junior Cook — tenor saxophone
- Tina Brooks — tenor saxophone
- Louis Smith — 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 28 pressings on file.
| 1958 | Blue Note · BLP 1596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, DG earliest on file · deep groove; RVG stamp; 47 W 63rd address; 63rd St address; Plastylite ear |
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| 1966 | Blue Note · BLP 1596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Liberty Pressing · RVG stamp |
| 1966 | Blue Note · BLP 1596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, NY USA Pressing · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1997 | Blue Note · TOCJ-1596 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| — | Blue Note · BLP 1596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Side 1 DG · deep groove; RVG stamp; 47 W 63rd address; laminated sleeve |
| 1966 | Blue Note · BST 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue, Liberty Pressing |
| 1967 | Blue Note · BST 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue |
| 1970 | Blue Note · BST 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
| 1972 | Blue Note · BST 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue |
| 1973 | Blue Note — STEREO |
| 1975 | Blue Note · 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
| 1975 | Blue Note · BST 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
| 1975 | Blue Note · 81596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
| 1979 | Blue Note · GXF 3172 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue |
Follow the players
Sam Jones also plays on
Art Blakey also plays on
Kenny Burrell also plays on