Art Blakey

Originally released in 1964, Golden Boy features drummer Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers performing songs from the Lee Adams and Charles Strouse Broadway musical for which the album is titled. Based off the play, written by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, Golden Boy was a socially conscious musical about a Harlem prize-fighter trying to escape his working class roots. A somewhat obscure Blakey release, Golden Boy nonetheless features plenty of improvisatory, hard bop firepower

PERSONNEL:

• Lee Morgan - trumpet
• Freddy Hubbard - trumpet
• Curtis Fuller - trombone
• Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
• Reggie Workman - bass
• Cedar Walton - piano
• Julius Watkins - french horn
• James Spaulding - alto sax
• Bill Barber - tuba
• Charles Davis - baritone sax

New York, May / June, 1964

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Theme From Golden Boy
• A2. Yes I Can
• A3. Lorna's Here

• SIDE B
• B1. This Is The Life
• B2. There's A Party
• B3. I Want To Be With You