In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant...
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Art Blakey recorded prolifically during his long career, and one of his best editions of the Jazz Messengers featured Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Lee Morgan, and Jymie...
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This is an interesting CD reissue of formerly rare material from the second version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The first six selections are the full contents of a...
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The second of two CDs that reissue the music from three Art Blakey LPs plus additional material (reshuffling the order to make it more logical), this set features trumpeter...
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A good single-CD sampler of drummer Art Blakey's Blue Note years is an impossibility, for he recorded dozens of gems for the label. There is nothing wrong with the six...
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This CD reissues one of the first percussion-oriented jazz records, although it was preceded two weeks earlier by Art Blakey's obscure Columbia set Drum Suite. For the Blue...
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This CD reissue brings back the music on the earlier LP titled Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers, plus five other selections (just one of which is an alternate)...
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The final recording by this edition of The Jazz Messengers (featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons, bassist Jymie Merritt and...
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Unlike most of the other artists who were given a sampler CD by Concord in 1998, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers were not on the label on a regular basis. However, Blakey...
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The title track has to be heard to be believed--an exciting quintet arrangement, awesome extended cadenzas by Wayne Shorter and trumpeter Lee Morgan, and a beautifully...
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Tucked away as a midline offering, this little gem ends up being the most cohesive pairing of Blakey and a 19-year-old Wynton Marsalis working together you're likely to...
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Not released until over 20 years after it was recorded, this set (reissued on CD in 1998 ) features tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter in his first recording with the Jazz...
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Nearly every recording by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, particularly during the 1958-61 period, is well worth acquiring by fans of hard bop. This 1995 CD from the Swiss...
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A solid if not exactly revelatory overview of Art Blakey's groundbreaking career, Greatest Hits assembles seven of the drummer's finest performances, including renditions of...
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Nearly 30 years after forming the first version of The Jazz Messengers, drummer Art Blakey was still jazz's top talent scout. For this Concord album such new members as...
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This 2000 reissue has a somewhat bizarre history. Though originally recorded and released by Elektra -- which sounds like a brazen typo but it's true -- in mono and stereo,...
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Proof positive that Blakey never stopped cooking. Live features the drummer at the peak of his powers, kicking a band of upstarts in the rear and making them rise to levels...
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Reissued on Fantasy's OJC series, this album finds Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers paying tribute to Japan (where they had toured to great acclaim) on two selections, featuring...
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The line-up of Blakey's Jazz Messengers on this February, 1985 London date includes trumpeter Terence Blanchard, saxophonists Donald Harrison and Jean Toussaint, pianist...
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This was the last really solid version of the Messengers which include TerenceBlanchard on trumpet, Donald Harrison on alto sax, and Mulgrew Miller on...
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Art Blakey's mid-1980's version of The Jazz Messengers made many recordings, but since the group (featuring trumpeter Terence Blanchard, altoist Donald Harrison, tenor...
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The 1988 edition of The Jazz Messengers, which drummer Art Blakey had been leading for 33 years, showed a great deal of promise. Comprised of trumpeter Philip Harper (soon...
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The final recording by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers found the 70-year old drummer (just months before his death) doing what he loved best, leading a group of young players...
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This 1959 concert in Paris by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers has been sporadically available on various labels, but this reissue in Verve's Jazz in Paris series is the best...
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Originally part of an 11-song three-LP set, this six-song CD (not counting the 28-second "Theme") features the Lee Morgan-Benny Golson-Bobby Timmons version of The Jazz...
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One of the best recordings by Art Blakey's 1981 Jazz Messengers, this set features Wynton Marsalis (then 19) on "How Deep Is the Ocean" and other illustrious sidemen...
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (1958) was one of a number of landmark projects that Monk (piano) would record during the remarkably prolific spring and...
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The second volume taken from Art Blakey's pre-Jazz Messengers gig at Birdland features the immortal trumpeter Clifford Brown, altoist Lou Donaldson, pianist Horace Silver,...
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Although this is pre-Messengers, these Birdland sides established the Blakey/ Messenger credo for the next 30 years--lots of solid well-rehearsed originals and blistering...
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Just prior to forming the first edition of the Jazz Messengers, drummer Art Blakey led a superb quintet at Birdland for a brief gig in 1954. The band featured the great...
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After nearly a decade of relative stability, the turnover in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers greatly increased during the veteran drummer's last four years. This was not due to...
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Throughout his long career as a bandleader, drummer Art Blakey very rarely played with big bands. This Bethlehem date was a one-shot affair, an opportunity for his powerful...
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This CD is a sampler of Art Blakey's 1956 recordings and will be frustrating for Jazz Messengers' collectors. None of the eight selections were previously unissued and they...
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The original Jazz Messengers with Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Horace Silver (piano) and Doug Watkins (bass). Not as hard-driving as some later...
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This first of two volumes features the original version of The Jazz Messengers, the quintet co-led by drummer Art Blakey and pianist Horace Silver that also featured...
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The second of two volumes showcasing the 1955 Jazz Messengers features Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley and Doug Watkins digging into such strong...
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The last time that drummer Art Blakey was able to keep a consistent personnel in his Jazz Messengers together for a lengthy period of time was the version he had with...
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Few jazz followers would think of trumpeter Chuck Mangione and pianist Keith Jarrett as former members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, but in 1966, they both worked in the...
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Free for All is a high point in drummer Art Blakey's enormous catalog. This edition of the Jazz Messengers had been together since 1961 with a lineup that would be hard to...
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The final recording by the second version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers features trumpeter Bill Hardman, tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, either Junior Mance or Sam...
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Blakey's studio sides from this period always sounded tight and well-drilled and this one's as tight as...well, a drum. Featuring tenor saxist Wayne Shorter at his most...
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The first studio recording by Art Blakey's all-star Messengers of 1961-64 features five group originals (including "Mosaic," "Arabia" and "Crisis") and exciting solos from...
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Interesting, uneven '57 date that contains a lengthy drum piece by Blakey. This was not his greatest group, although alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was among the hardest...
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Three-disc anthology that covers various editions of The Messengers from the beginning to the end. It contains such classics as "Moanin'" and does a good job of showing how...
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The second of two CDs that greatly expand the original Three Blind Mice LP captures the all-star Jazz Messengers sextet of 1961-62 at two separate concerts. The five...
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A non-Messenger date with the ubiquitous Sonny Stitt, alto and tenor saxes, McCoy Tyner, piano and Art Davis, bass. Promising lineup, but basically just another Stitt bop...
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Drummer Art Blakey took time off from his busy schedule as leader of The Jazz Messengers to participate in this quartet session with saxophonist Sonny Stitt, pianist McCoy...
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One of Art Blakey's final recordings as a leader features two separate pianists (Benny Green and Mulgrew Miller) and two bassists (Leon Lee Dorsey and Lonnie Plaxico) taking...
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With The Jazz Messengers, this is prototype Blakey on a 1988 reissue. Lee Morgan (tpt), Benny Golson (ts), and Bobby Timmons (p). ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music...
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Not to be confused with the earlier Art Blakey Blue Note album with the same name, this studio date recorded in Japan has languished somewhat in obscurity, perhaps because...
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The 1981 edition of The Jazz Messengers featured more than its share of young greats (trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, altoist Bobby Watson, tenor saxophonist Billy Pierce,...
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This two-CD set is a logical reissue, combining both volumes (formerly Lp's) of a live performance by Art Blakey and his 1959 Jazz Messengers. Recorded shortly after...
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By the time that jazz icon/bandleader/percussionist Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers began recording for Riverside in the fall of 1962, Blakey had already been the...
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35 years after first officially forming The Jazz Messengers, drummer Art Blakey entered his final year still at it. Due to the many promising young players around at the...
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By 1985, Blakey had replaced The Marsalis brothers with a next-generation sax/horn duo in Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard and also added Jean Toussaint on tenor sax...
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The four tracks on this session provide listeners with a chance to hear two of the last Messengers units. Half the cuts were done at Sweet Basil in 1985 with a three-horn...
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Even after heading the Jazz Messengers for over three decades, drummer Art Blakey kept true to his original vision, using the band as a forum for talented young players to...
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Art Blakey's greatest legacy, aside from the numerous fantastic sessions and years of brilliant drumming, was his nurturing of embryonic talent. Every Messengers unit from...
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Wynton Marsalis's final recording as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers finds his brother Branford taking Bobby Watson's place on alto. The remainder of this superb...
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The Shorter/ Morgan/ Timmons edition with Timmons' classic "Dat Dere" (his follow-up to "This Here"), Shorter's "Lester Left Town" and a way cool version of "It's Only A...
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Perhaps the best known and most loved of Art Blakey's works, The Big Beat is a testament to the creative progress of one of the best jazz drummers of all time. Now over 40...
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Lee Morgan once again became part of the Jazz Messengers after replacing Freddie Hubbard, who left after replacing Morgan originally. The band is rounded out by pianist...
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Although one of the lesser-known editions of The Jazz Messengers, the sextet featured on this Concord session (trumpeter Valeri Ponomarev, altoist Bobby Watson, tenor...
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The version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers heard on this CD differs from most from the period because pianist Bobby Timmons had just departed to join Cannonball Adderley so...
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Famous for Benny Golson's melodic hard bop tenor sax and classic tune "Along Came Betty," proto-funk pianist Bobby Timmons' playing and title cut, and a 20-year-old Lee...
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The third version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers debuted with this stunning album. Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson helped give the quintet its own personality with his...
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Recorded just a week before the awesome Night In Tunisia album, this doesn't reach the same dizzying heights, but the mix of Shorter's metaphysical style with Morgan's more...
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Taken from the same sessions that resulted in A Night in Tunisia, this fine CD features the 1960 version of The Jazz Messengers starring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor...
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Drummer Art Blakey and the 1989 version of his Jazz Messengers (with trumpeter Brian Lynch, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, trombonist Frank Lacy, pianist Geoff Keezer and...
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In 1999, Collectables released Jazz Messengers/Blues at Carnegie Hall, which contained two complete albums -- Jazz Messengers by Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk (1958,...
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This compilation assembles some long unavailable bop sessions led by either Art Blakey or trumpeter Joe Gordon as a collectable Verve Elite Edition reissue CD. Blakey's...
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Originally recorded in 1961, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Roots & Herbs was first released in 1970 and then reissued on CD in 1999. Like many titles in the Blue Note...
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The 1960-61 Jazz Messengers featured three distinctive soloists (trumpeter Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter on tenor and pianist Bobby Timmons), perfectly suitable accompaniment by...
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This is a collection that looks better on paper than in reality. Though Blakey is joined by Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers, and Jymie Merritt, the addition of...
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While not a universally praised piece of the Art Blakey discography, The African Beat is quite engaging. Yusef Lateef is the only horn player, featured on oboe, flute, tenor...
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Art Blakey, who visited Africa several times, has been cited as saying jazz couldn't have happened there, that it could only have happened in America when and where it did,...
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