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Monday Night at the Village Gate

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Monday Night at the Village Gate
Live album by
Released1966
RecordedMay 24, 1965
VenueThe Village Gate, New York City
GenreJazz
Length32:36
LabelAtlantic
SD 1462
ProducerNesuhi Ertegun
Herbie Mann chronology
Herbie Mann Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
(1965)
Monday Night at the Village Gate
(1966)
Latin Mann
(1965)

Monday Night at the Village Gate is a live album by American jazz flutist Herbie Mann recorded at The Village Gate in 1965 and released on the Atlantic label the following year.[1] The album follows Mann's two previously released recordings from the venue five years earlier Herbie Mann at the Village Gate and Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate. An additional track from the concert was released on Standing Ovation at Newport.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review noting "Mann's music was still based on the Latin jazz that he had spent years exploring, but rather than the frenetic beats of Afro-Cuban music or samba, the rhythmic pulse of these five tracks is decidedly more laid-back".[2]

Track listing

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  1. "Away from the Crowd" (Attila Zoller) - 6:41
  2. "Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 8:04
  3. "In Escambrun" (Zoller) - 5:40
  4. "The Young Turks" (Arif Mardin) - 5:24
  5. "You're Gonna Make It With Me" (Jack Hitchcock) - 6:47

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Atlantic Records Catalog: 1400 series accessed August 25, 2015
  2. ^ a b Monday Night at the Village Gate – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 25, 2015.