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Blue Lights, Volume 2

Blue Lights, Volume 2 cover
RecordedMay 14, 1958
LabelBlue Note
CatalogBLP 1597
Released1958
Personnel8 credited players
Discogsmaster 300728

The record

The second half of that same session finds Burrell trading choruses with the same shifting horns, Smith, Cook, and Brooks circling one another. Timmons and Jordan split piano duties while Blakey keeps the simmer at a rolling boil.

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 16 pressings on file.

1962Blue Note · BLP 1597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono earliest on file · RVG stamp; 47 W 63rd address; Plastylite ear
1997Blue Note · TOCJ-1597 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo · RVG stamp
1966Blue Note · BLP 1597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Liberty Pressing
1970Blue Note · BST 81597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1973Blue Note · BST 81597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1975Blue Note · BST 81597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1977Blue Note · BST 81597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1977Blue Note · BST 81597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1984Blue Note · BLP 1597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
1989Blue Note · CDP 7 81597 2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1994Blue Note — MONO, LIMITED EDITION
2005Blue Note · TOCJ-6605 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2007Classic Records · BN 1597-MONO-200G — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
2007Blue Note · BLP 1597 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue

Follow the players

Sam Jones also plays on

Art Blakey also plays on

Kenny Burrell also plays on

Bobby Timmons also plays on