Art Blakey

2-CD SET Plus 7 BONUS TRACKS

Presented here are two complete rare concerts by one of the best formations of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Benny Golson and Hank Mobley alternating on tenor sax, Bobby Timmons on piano, Jymie Merritt on bass, and the leader on drums. The group with Golson lasted for less than a year and produced very few recordings. Mobley’s 1959 stint with the group lasted even less, as he was soon replaced by Wayne Shorter. The concert on CD1, recorded in Scheveningen, Holland in 1958, and featuring Golson, was only previously available on a long out of print Japanese edition released 20 years ago. The Newport ’59 set with Mobley which opens CD2, on the other hand, has never been issued before!

This release is completed with all of the existing music from the Messengers’ (with Golson) performances at Paris’ Olympia Theatre in 1958, during the same tour that produced the Dutch concert.

ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS

ART BLAKEY, drums & leader
LEE MORGAN, trumpet
BENNY GOLSON, tenor sax (on CD1 & CD2, 5-8)
HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax (on CD2, 1-4)
BOBBY TIMMONS, piano
JYMIE MERRITT, bass

CD1 [1-5]: HOLAND 1958. LONG UNAVAILABLE!
Live at Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Den Haag, Holland, November 29, 1958.

CD2 [1-4]: NEWPORT 1959. PREVIOUSLY UNISUED!
Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 4, 1959.

BONUS TRACKS:
CD1 [6-8]: Live at the Olympia, Paris, France, November 22, 1958.
CD2 [5-8]: Live at the Olympia, Paris, France, December 17, 1958.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1: Total Time: 73:00

01 Moanin’
02 Along Came Betty
03 I Remember Clifford
04 Whisper Not
05 A Night In Tunisia
06 Just By Myself
07 I Remember Clifford #2
08 Are You Real?

CD 2: Total Time: 77:39

01 M&M
02 Close Your Eyes
03 Moanin’ #2
04 A Night In Tunisia #2
05 Moanin’ #3
06 Justice [Aka Evidence]
07 Blues March
08 Whisper Not #2