At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 is a 1955 live album

Live album

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 release by jazz

Jazz

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 drummer

Drummer

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 Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....

. It was first released by Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

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. This record featured the third incarnation of The Jazz Messengers, one of Blakey's most endearing bands, and was the second of two volumes recorded at Café Bohemia

Café Bohemia

The Café Bohemia was a jazz club located at 15 Barrow Street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York City.-History:The club was opened in 1955 by Jimmy Garofolo. Garofolo had owned the room since 1949 and had operated it as a restaurant, bar, and stage at various times, each endeavour...

, a famous night club in Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

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 in New York, New York on November 23, 1955.

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Originally By	Time
1.	"Sportin' Crowd"	Hank Mobley Hank Mobley Henry Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz...	7:32
2.	"Like Someone in Love Like Someone in Love Like Someone in Love is an album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol... "	Johnny Burke Johnny Burke (lyricist) Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...  and Jimmy Van Heusen	9:18
3.	"Yesterdays"	Harbach and Jerome Kern	4:20
4.	"Just One of Those Things"	Cole Porter Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...	9:29
5.	"Hank's Symphony"	Hank Mobley	4:44
6.	"Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind (song) "Gone with the Wind" is a popular song. The music was written by Allie Wrubel, the lyrics by Herb Magidson. The song was published in 1937. A version recorded by Horace Heidt was a #1 song in 1937.Diane E... "	Herb Magidson Herb Magidson Herbert A. "Herb" Magidson was an American popular lyricist. His work was used in over 23 films and four Broadway reviews. He won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1934....  and Allie Wrubel Allie Wrubel Allie Wrubel was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Wrubel attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University before working in dance bands. He began his musical career in Greenwich Village, New York where he roomed with his close friend James Cagney...	7:27
7.	"Avila and Tequila"	Hank Mobley	12:49
8.	"I Waited for You"	Fuller and Gillespie	9:50

Personnel

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers:

• Art Blakey — drums
• Horace Silver
  Horace Silver
  Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
  
   — piano
• Kenny Dorham
  Kenny Dorham
  McKinley Howard Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did...
  
   — trumpet
• Hank Mobley — saxophone
  Saxophone
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   (tenor
  Tenor saxophone
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  )
• Doug Watkins
  Doug Watkins
  Douglas Watkins was an American hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.-Biography:An original member of the Jazz Messengers, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins,...
  
   — bass

Production:

• Bob Bluementhal, Leonard Feather — liner notes
• Michael Cuscuna — reissue producer
• John Hermansader — cover design
• Alfred Lion — producer
• Rudy Van Gelder — digital remastering
• Francis Wolff — photography

Reception

This album, which sees the first version of The Jazz Messengers on record, was noted as not "match[ing] the intensity which the quintet secured at Birdland

A Night at Birdland Vol. 1

A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 is a 1954 release by jazz artist Art Blakey. It was first released by Blue Note Records as a 10" LP and then as a 12" LP containing material from the third 10" album...

." Tenor saxophonist

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

 Hank Mobley, in particular, is noted as "a somewhat unfocused stylist." However, trumpet

Trumpet

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er Kenny Dorham is seen as an "elusive brilliance [that] was seldom so extensively captured" and the playing in general "is just as absorbing" as the Birdland albums and has "influenced jazz up to present time."