Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

• 3-CD BOX SET

Art Blakey was among the most influential jazz drummers in the world, and his Jazz Messengers were a legendary band: you only have to look at the amazing number of great soloists it revealed in three decades (fifties to eighties.)

This set contains live recordings the Messengers made in Paris on 13 May 1961 – it was the band’s golden age, fea­turing such wonderful instrumentalists as Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter in its ranks, notably playing titles like “Moanin’” and “Blues March”. The music here is played at fever pitch by young musicians who groove like thunder; as a kind of transcription of Blakey’s version of the hard bop revolution, it probably comes very close to perfection.

PERSONNEL:

• BOBBY TIMMONS - (piano)
• JYMIE MERRITT - (double bass)
• WAYNE SHORTER - (tenor sax)
• LEE MORGAN - (trumpet)
• ART BLAKEY - (drums)

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• 01 The Summit
• 02 Band Intro
• 03 Yama
• 04 Close Your Eyes
• 05 Dat Dere
• 06 Lost & Found
• 07 Round Midnight [First Concert]

• CD TWO
• 01 Kozo’s Waltz
• 02 Those Who Sit and Wait
• 03 Night in Tunisia [First Concert]
• 04 The Theme
• 05 Round Midnight [Second Concert]
• 06 So Tired
• 07 My Funny Valentine

• CD THREE
• 01 It’s Only a Papermoon
• 02 Noise in the Attic
• 03 Moanin’V
• 04 I Didn’t Know what Time it Was
• 05 Blues March
• 06 Night in Tunisia [Second Concert]