In Person Friday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco, Vol. 1 (CJM 1988 reissue shown) In Person Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco, Vol. 2

Live album by Miles Davis Quintet
Released	September 1, 1961
Recorded	April 21-22, 1961
Length	53:29, 57:46
Label	Columbia CL 1669 / 1670 (mono), CS 8469 / 8470 (stereo)
Producer	Irving Townsend

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	(Vol. 1)
Allmusic	(Vol. 2)
Allmusic
PopMatters	(positive)

In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete, also called The Complete Blackhawk, is a 2003 four-disc collection of the 1961 live performances of the Miles Davis Quintet at the Black Hawk nightclub in San Francisco. These sets, performed with recording in mind, forged new ground for jazz musician Miles Davis, who had never previously been recorded live in a club with his combo. Material from the four sets was first released simultaneously by Columbia Records on two albums in September 1961, titled In Person Friday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco, Volume 1 and In Person Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco, Volume 2. Although those albums were subsequently rereleased several times, the complete sets were not commercially available until Sony Records realised a digital mastering of this collection. Simultaneous to this release, the material was made available as two separate double-albums, entitled Friday Night: In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco, Complete and Saturday Night: In Person at the Blackhawk in San Francisco, Complete.

The complete collection, which included liner notes from the original release by Monterey Jazz Festival co-founder Ralph J. Gleason as well as additional notes by jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson, was critically and commercially well received. The collection peaked at #9 on Billboard's "Top Jazz Albums" chart.

In its review of the four-disc compilation, The New York Times indicated that the set was "the gold standard for straight-ahead, postwar jazz rhythm".AllMusic, praising the "pristine" sound and "lovely" packaging suggested that "no Davis fan should be without these recordings purchased separately or as a set". The All About Jazz website said that the set was "so fastidiously remastered it sounds live in your living room".

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