Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

• 2-CD SET

• INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

• 16-PAGE BOOKLET

The sextet heard on 3 Blind Mice (United Artists UAJ 14002), with Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, and Jymnie 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 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.

TRACKS:

• CD ONE (76:45 min)
• 01 THREE BLIND MICE
• 02 BLUE MOON
• 03 THAT OLD FEELING
• 04 PLEXIS
• 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 TWO (67:05 min)
• 01 MOSAIC
• 02 PING PONG
• 03 THE PROMISED LAND
• 04 ARABIA
• 05 MOSAIC [Studio version](*)
• 06 ARABIA [Studio version](*)

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• Same personnel. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, October 2, 1961.