Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (LP) [ Decca / LP - due 3/May/2024 ] With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes... |
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (Deluxe Edition LP) [ Rhino / Warner / 2 LP - released 27/May/2022 ] In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic. The Jazz Messengers were a loose collective of young jazz musicians, with a constantly rotating roster to keep the... |
The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey
Ugetsu (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] The place was a Broadway cellar that, with characteristic and not very exaggerated swagger, proclaimed itself "The Jazz Corner of the World." The date was mid-June 1963, when the New York post-bop era was still very much in progress. The bandleader... |
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Just Coolin' [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio on March 8, 1959, and featuring the legendary drummer, along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank... |
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Moanin' [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 3/May/1999 ] Recorded in 1958, 'Moanin'' is an essential chapter in the history of jazz rhythm, and jazz itself. This Rudy Van Gelder re-mastered edition features a previously unissued bonus track. |
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers
Jazz Messengers [ Columbia / CD ] |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Four Classic Albums Plus - Hard Bop / Drum Suite / Impulse!! Art Blakey!! The Jazz Messengers! / Caravan [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] To emphasise the importance of ART BLAKEY in the history of jazz, this release is our third outing from the great man. This is what we said before... AMSC 1017: Just as Miles had a constant stream of seasoned players in his bands and provided a... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Hard Drive (2022 Remaster) (LP) [ ADA / BMG / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] A classic album from the hard bop era. Recorded in New York City, October 1957. Featuring Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin, Junior Mance, Sam Dockery and Spanky Debrest. Remastered 96 kHz/24 bit audio and pressed on 180 gram black vinyl at... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Indestructable (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Drummer Art Blakey recorded Indestructible - his last album for Blue Note - in 1964 with a powerful sextet of The Jazz Messengers consisting of Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Cedar Walton (piano ) and... |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Moanin' (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958's Moanin'-featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt-was the perfect... |