Freddie Hubbard & Art Blakey

• 180-gram vinyl with obi strip

Welcome to Feel The Wind... maybe one of the greatest team-ups in jazz history featuring jazz superstars drummer Art Blakey and trumpeter Freddie Hubbard! Art Blakey (1919-1990) needs little introduction, the American Jazz drummer and bandleader made a name for himself in the 1940s & 1950s playing with contemporaries such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. He is often considered to have been Thelonious Monk's most empathetic drummer (he played on both Monk's first recording session in 1947 and his final one in 1971).

On 1989's Feel The Wind, you'll find six sublime tracks recorded in 1988 by renowned engineer Max Bolleman at the Studio 44 Monster in Holland. These recordings were originally released on the legendary Dutch jazz label Timeless Records (and produced by it's owner Wim Wigt). Supporting Hubbard and Blakey is an all-star line-up of musicians from the likes of Leon Dorsey (Lionel Hampton), Lonnie Plaxico (Dizzy Gillespie, Ravi Coltrane), Benny Green (Joe Henderson, Houston Person, Milt Jackson), Mulgrew Miller (Frank Morgan, Donald Byrd) and Javon Jackson (Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller, John Hicks).

PERSONNEL:

• Art Blakey - (drums)
• Leon Dorsey - (bass)
• Benny Green - (piano)
• Freddie Hubbard - (trumpet)
• Javon Jackson - (tenor sax)
• Lonnnie Plaxico - (bass)
• Mulgrew Miller - (arranger, piano)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Arietis
• A2. Feel The Wind
• A3. Embraceable You

• SIDE B
• B1. Off Minor
• B2. Up Jumped Spring
• B3. Piano Trio Medley