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A1	Split Kick Written-By – Horace Silver
A2	Once In A While Written-By – Bud Green, Michael Edwards
A3	Quicksilver Written-By – Horace Silver
B1	A Night In Tunisia Written-By – Dizzy Gillespie
B2	Mayreh Written-By – Horace Silver

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Birdland
• Record Company – Toshiba EMI Ltd

Credits

• Bass – Curly Russell
• Design [Cover] – Reid K. Miles*
• Drums – Art Blakey
• Liner Notes – Leonard Feather
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – Francis Wolff
• Piano – Horace Silver
• Producer – Alfred Lion
• Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
• Saxophone – Lou Donaldson
• Trumpet – Clifford Brown

Notes

Recorded live on February 21, 1954.

In 1991, Japan's most famous Jazz magazine "Swing Journal" and Shinseido (music reseller) formed a project to release various "Gold Discs" in LP format, among various labels. The "Gold Disc" is an award by Swing Journal. The Swing Journal have written reviews of many albums every month, and they give the "Gold Disc" award to the album with most masterpiece musical quality. This "Gold Of G.D. 100" Series contains as much as 100 albums which won the "Gold Disc" award ever since. For there are more than 100 albums won the Gold Disc, this selection is entitled "The Gold Of Gold Disc".

In April 5, 1991, 12 albums from Impulse, MCA and Decca were released. In the next month, May 25, as much as 26 Gold Disc titles were chosen from Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary, Fantasy, Pablo, Bethlehem and Mode. Next selection, released in July 25, contains 28 titles from Verve, Brunswick, Felsted, Fontana, EmArcy, Finesse, Vee Jay, Dawn, Atlantic and Warner Brothers.

The last series Part 4, released in October 05, 1991 contains Blue Note albums among which this Blakey record.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BLP 1521	Art Blakey	A Night At Birdland, Volume 1 ‎(LP, Comp, Mono)	Blue Note	BLP 1521	US	1956
BST 81521	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night At Birdland, Volume 1 ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Blue Note	BST 81521	US	1985
1521, B0022583-01	Art Blakey	A Night At Birdland, Volume 1 ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE, RM)	Blue Note, Universal Music Enterprises	1521, B0022583-01	US	2015
BLP 1521	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night At Birdland Volume 1 ‎(LP, Album, RE, TP)	Blue Note	BLP 1521	France	1982
BST 81521	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night At Birdland Volume 1 ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE, RM)	Blue Note	BST 81521	France	1986

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