Phil Woods and Others: Night at the Five Spot / Bird’s Night

Date:	Monday, August 12, 1957
Label/Number:	Signal 1204 / Savoy MG-12138
Personnel:	Phil Woods (as) Frank Socolow (as, ts) Cecil Payne (bs) Duke Jordan (p) Wendell Marshall (b) Art Taylor (d)
Tracks:	Parker’s Mood / Steeplechase / Buzzy / Scrapple From The Apple
Location:	Five Spot Cafe, NYC
Producer:	Don Schlitten
Liner Notes:	/ Uncredited
Research Comments:	A tribute to Charlie Parker recorded at New York’s Five Spot Cafe. This session, originally released on Signal, was later purchased by Savoy. From the uncredited liner notes: “The excitement present in this session is due in no small part to the fact that it was done with a live audience which the musicians could play to and receive a reaction from. As one of the newest and most relaxed places to hear jazz in New York, the Five Spot at 5 Cooper Square in Manhattan (between 4th and 5th Streets), was an ideal gathering place. Equipped with a new Steinway, the room was ready for the ministrations of Rudy Van Gelder, one of jazz’s most perceptive engineers.”
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Sources:	AMG DS AJ-IJS CDJ