ART BLAKEY LIVE AT MONTREUX AND NORTHSEA WITH THE JAZZ MESSENGERS BIG BAND

All compositions by Bobby Watson except as indicated

"Minor Thesis" (James Williams) - 13:17
"Wheel Within a Wheel" - 7:02
"Bit a Bittadose" - 6:41
"Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) - 8:34
"Linwood" - 7:31
Recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Holland on July 13, 1980 (track 1) and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland on July 17, 1980 (tracks 2-5)
Personnel[edit source | editbeta]

Art Blakey - drums
Valery Ponomarev, Wynton Marsalis - trumpet
Robin Eubanks - trombone
Bobby Watson - alto saxophone
Branford Marsalis - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
Bill Pierce - tenor saxophone
James Williams - piano
Charles Fambrough - bass
John Ramsey - drums