Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

2-CD SET - INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

The sextet heard on Three Blind Mice (United Artists UAJ 14002), with Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, and Jymie Merritt, is widely regarded as one of the finest formations of Art Blakey’s legendary Jazz Messengers. This 2-CD set presents all of the recordings from the two original volumes of the LP plus, for comparison, the original studio versions by the same group of three of the tunes.

PERSONNEL:

ART BLAKEY, drums & leader
FREDDIE HUBBARD, trumpet
WAYNE SHORTER, tenor sax
CURTIS FULLER, trombone
CEDAR WALTON, piano
JYMIE MERRITT, bass

All tracks recorded live at the Renaissance Club, Hollywood, March 18, 1962, except “The
Promised Land” and “Arabia”, recorded live at the Village Gate, New York, August 17, 1961.

(*) BONUS TRACKS: Same personnel.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., October 2, 1961.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1 (TOTAL TIME: 76:42 Min:):

01. THREE BLIND MICE
02. BLUE MOON
03. THAT OLD FEELING
04. PLEXUS
05. UP JUMPED SPRING
06. WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW
07. CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT
08. UP JUMPED SPRING #2
09. IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON
10. CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT [Studio version] (*)

CD 2 (TOTAL TIME: 67:00 Min.):

01. MOSAIC
02. PING PONG
03. THE PROMISED LAND
04. ARABIA
05. MOSAIC [Studio version] (*)
06. ARABIA [Studio version] (*)