On this live session, the audiences seem to have been enthusiastic and appreciative. “Everywhere we’d go people would say, ‘This is the best Jazz Messengers we’ve heard!’,” according to Davis. “And because of the way Jaki would play and Reggie would go, it was like a semi-freedom thing — with Messengers heads, you know, but when we got to soloing…! And Blakey was ridin’ and floatin’ the time…but he would always be loose enough to follow, to keep it going. He’s one helluva musician.”
Recorded at Palais de la Mutualité, Paris, France, November 3, 1965.
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
Nathan Davis, tenor saxophone
Jacki Byard, piano
Reggie Workman, bass
Art Blakey, drums
| Side 1 |
| 1. The Hub |
| 2. Blue Moon |
| Side 2 |
| 1. Crisis |