Randy Weston

LIVE AT THE FIVE SPOT

Personnel:

Kenny Dorham (tp), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Randy Weston (p), Wilbur Little (b), Roy Haynes, Clifford Jarvis (d), Brock Peters (vcl)

Reference: FSRCD 1645

The scene for Randy Westons 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 datebut they had not as yet been delivered.

At 9:30 p.m. the missing musicians began to gatherKenny 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 rehearsalvery little warm-up.

The results are on this albumand 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.