Three Blind Mice
Live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Released	1962
Recorded	1961
Genre	Jazz
Label	United Artists Records
Producer	Alan Douglas
Art Blakey chronology
The African Beat (1962) Three Blind Mice (1962) Caravan (1962)
The Jazz Messengers chronology
Buhaina's Delight (1962) Three Blind Mice (1962) Caravan (1962)

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Three Blind Mice is a 1962 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for United Artists Records. It was later reissued in two volumes by Blue Note Records. It features live material recorded in 1961 at The Village Gate, NYC and The Renaissance Club, Hollywood, in 1962. It was bassist Jymie Merritt's final recording with the group before having to leave to recover from an illness; he would be replaced by Reggie Workman.

Blue Note has re-issued a two-volume CD set, Three Blind Mice Vols. 1 & 2, with supplementary live tracks from the original dates of recording.

Track listing[edit]

Three Blind Mice, Vol. 1

1. "Three Blind Mice" (Fuller) - 8:20


2. "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) - 6:01


3. "That Old Feeling" (Brown, Fain) - 6:36


4. "Plexis" (Walton) - 5:51


5. "Up Jumped Spring" (Hubbard) - 9:48


6. "Up Jumped Spring [alternate take]" (Hubbard) - 5:18


7. "When Lights Are Low" (Carter, Williams) - 4:11


8. "Children of the Night" (Shorter) - 8:13

Three Blind Mice, Vol. 2

1. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) - 13:27


2. "Mosaic" (Walton) - 12:30


3. "Ping Pong" (Shorter) - 12:24


4. "The Promised Land" (Walton) - 13:13


5. "Arabia" (Fuller) - 11:25

Personnel[edit]

• 
  Art Blakey, drums


• 
  Freddie Hubbard, trumpet


• 
  Curtis Fuller, trombone


• 
  Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone


• 
  Cedar Walton, piano


• 
  Jymie Merritt, bass

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