Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland is a live jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers released on Riverside Records in October 1963. The album was recorded at Birdland in New York City.

The original LP had six tracks and producer Orrin Keepnews stated in the liner notes that "there were other performances taped that night that couldn't be fitted into the resulting album". When the album was released on CD, Keepnews added three new tracks that were recorded that night. The Jazz Messengers' tour in Japan had ended a few months before this live performance; then the band decided to play two tracks as a homage to Japan: the Cedar Walton composition "Ugetsu" (which Walton also released under the title "Fantasy in D" on his solo albums) and Wayne Shorter's "On the Ginza".

Ugetsu (album)

It was reissued in 2011, once more in the Original Jazz Classics series, with a previously unissued track, "Conception".

Ugetsu (album)

Track listing

Original LP release

Side A

"One By One" (Wayne Shorter) – 6:18

"Ugetsu" (Cedar Walton) – 11:03

"Time Off" (Curtis Fuller) – 4:56

Side B

"Ping-Pong" (Shorter) – 8:09

"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:32

"On the Ginza" (Shorter) – 7:04

2011 CD reissue

"One By One" (Wayne Shorter) – 6:22

"Ugetsu" (Cedar Walton) – 11:03

"Time Off" (Curtis Fuller) – 4:58

"Ping-Pong" (Shorter) – 8:10

"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:31

"On the Ginza" (Shorter) – 7:07

Bonus Tracks

"Eva" (Shorter) – 5:55

"The High Priest" (Fuller) – 5:32

"Conception" (George Shearing) – 5:15

"The Theme" (Miles Davis) – 1:43

Personnel

Art Blakey – drums

Freddie Hubbard – trumpet

Curtis Fuller – trombone

Wayne Shorter – tenor sax

Cedar Walton – piano

Reggie Workman – double bass

References

Art Blakey live albums

The Jazz Messengers live albums

Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews

1963 albums

1963 live albums

Riverside Records live albums

Ugetsu (album)