Monday Night at the Village Gate by Herbie Mann (CD, 1966)

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4943674119851

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Herbie Mann, Chick Corea

CD

1966

Bebop

Monday Night at the Village Gate

Live

Jazz

Personnel: Herbie Mann (flute); John Hitchcock, Mark Weinstein (trombone); Dave Pike (vibraphone); Chick Corea (piano); Earl May (bass); Bruno Carr (drums); Carlos "Patato" Valdes (congas). Recorded live at the Village Gate, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Art D'Lugoff. Five years on from his career-defining live set AT THE VILLAGE GATE, flautist Herbie Mann returned to that Greenwich Village venue to record a follow-up with a different lineup--now featuring future superstar Chick Corea on piano--and a subtly different sound. Mann's music was still based on the Latin jazz that he had spent years exploring, but rather than the frenetic beats of Afro-Cuban music or samba, the rhythmic pulse of these five tracks is decidedly more laid-back. On the centerpiece eight-minute rendition of the gospel standard "Motherless Child," the vibe is straight-up soul jazz, complete with some bluesy comping by Corea and a long, mellow flute solo by Mann. The rest of the album picks up the tempo, most notably on Arif Mardin's "The Young Turks," but there's still a looser, more flexible sense of rhythm on MONDAY NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE GATE than on its better-known predecessor, one that hints at the full-on fusion of Mann's later career.

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