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Artist:
Art Blakey
Title:
The Jazz Messengers



Details:
A killer early album by Art Blakey and his first incarnation of The Messengers -- recorded before Horace Silver left the group and a rare non-Blue Note outing done for Columbia Records! The ensemble here features Donald Byrd on trumpet Hank Mobley on tenor and Doug Watkins on bass -- alongside Silver's piano and Blakey's thundering work on drums -- and the album is virtually a blueprint for the sound of hardbop in years to come -- focused and intense but still with plenty of room for individual solo expression! Tracks include a classic reading of "Nica's Dream" plus Horace Silver's great "Ecaroh" and Mobley's own "Infra-Rae" and "Hank's Symphony".

Label: Columbia

This item was added to our catalog on Friday 04 July, 2008