Live at the Village Vanguard (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra album)

For similarly titled albums, see Live at the Village Vanguard.

Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1967 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label. The album was nominated for a 1967 Grammy Award in the "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group..." category.^[3] All tracks are also included on Mosaic's limited edition boxed set, The Complete Solid State Recordings of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and seven tracks were also re-issued in the 1990s on CD as Volume 3 of LRC Ltd.'s (and Laserlight's) series Village Vanguard Live Sessions.^[4]

Live at the Village Vanguard
Live album by Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Released	1967
Recorded	1967 April, The Village Vanguard, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	49:26
Label	Solid State
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra chronology
Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis,... (1966) Live at the Village Vanguard (1967) Jazz Casual,... (1968)
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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[2]

Track listing

LP side A:

1. "The Little Pixie" – 10:34
2. "A- That's Freedom" (H. Jones) – 7:01
3. "Bachafillen" (Brown) – 7:08

LP side B:

1. "Don't Git Sassy" – 7:22
2. "Willow Tree" (Razaf, Waller) – 5:04
3. "Samba Con Getchu" (Brookmeyer) – 12:17

Bonus tracks added to later Blue Note CD reissue:

7. "Quietude" – 4:48
8. "The Second Race" – 9:37
9. "Lover Man" (Davis, Ramirez, Sherman) – 4:53

All songs by Thad Jones except as noted.

Personnel

• Thad Jones – flugelhorn
• Mel Lewis – drums
• Roland Hanna – piano
• Richard Davis – bass
• Sam Herman – guitar
• Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
• Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, flute
• Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone, flute
• Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone, clarinet
• Richard Williams – trumpet
• Bill Berry – trumpet
• Snooky Young – trumpet
• Marvin Stamm – trumpet
• Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
• Bob Brookmeyer – trombone
• Garnett Brown – trombone
• Tom McIntosh – trombone
• Cliff Heather – trombone