Night Flight to Dakar

Night Flight to Dakar
Live album by Al Cohn, Billy Mitchell, Dolo Coker, Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Butler
Released 1981
Recorded March 14 & 19, 1980
Venue Club Taski, Les Almadies and Theatre Nationale Daniel Sorrano, Dakar, Senegal
Genre Jazz
Length 47:19
Label Xanadu
185
Producer Don Schlitten
Billy Mitchell chronology
Xanadu in Africa
(1980)Xanadu in Africa1980		 Night Flight to Dakar
(1980)		 De Lawd's Blues
(1980)De Lawd's Blues1980
Al Cohn chronology
Xanadu in Africa
(1980) Xanadu in Africa1980		 Night Flight to Dakar
(1980) Night Flight to Dakar1980		 Nonpareil
(1981) Nonpareil1981

Night Flight to Dakar is an album by saxophonists Al Cohn and Billy Mitchell, pianist Dolo Coker, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Frank Butler recorded in Dakar in 1980 for Xanadu Records.[1][2][3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "The performances may have been recorded during an African tour but the music is very much American bop with heated versions of "Blues Up and Down," "Sweet Senegalese Brown" and "The King" featuring the tenors in competitive form".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Night Flight to Dakar" (Dolo Coker) – 8:43
  2. "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' (Joe Greene) – 6:43
  3. "Blues Up and Down" (Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt) – 9:13
  4. "Sweet Senegelese Brown" (Billy Mitchell) – 12:10
  5. "The King" (Count Basie) – 10:30

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Ziegler, F. and Fitzgerald, M. Xanadu Records Listing, accessed April 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Xanadu Records discography accessed April 24, 2017
  3. ↑ Xanadu in Africa catalog accessed April 24, 2017
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Night Flight to Dakar – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
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