Author: Blakey, Art and the Jazz Messen

Brand: Blue Note

Features:

• BLAKEY ART
• JAZZ
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Format: Original recording remastered

PartNumber: CDEMI53242

Release Date: 13-04-1999

Details: Amazon.caThis is truly one of the great classics of hard bop, with drummer Art Blakey leading arguably his greatest Jazz Messengers line-up through a driving programme that never lets up. Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson (whose composition “Along Came Betty” is heard here, subsequently becoming a jazz classic), brilliant trumpeter Lee Morgan and funky pianist Bobby Timmons (who wrote the hit title track) each take some of the best solos of their great careers and Blakey was never greater. No jazz record collection should be without this disc. It remains one of the premier items in Blue Note’s catalogue, and rightfully so. It was issue